This is a journal on education that is brought out annually. It is an anthology of writings by educators, teachers and thinkers exploring a new vision of education in its many dimensions—philosophy, psychology, classroom experience, curriculum, nature and environment, and contemporary issues. It lays special emphasis on J Krishnamurti’s principles of education.
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I remember a conversation I had with a young bird watcher in Sahayadri School.
Review of “Birds and Plant Regeneration”, Tara Gandhi Read Post »
A Flame of Learning’ is not an easy book to read—but then few worthwhile things are easy.
Review of “A Flame of Learning”, J. Krishnamurti Read Post »
Magical Parent, Magical Child, plays with many ways of getting its message across.
This book is a significant contribution to the growing literature on education, particularly school education, and it is written by an Assistant Professor at the Centre for the Study of Social Systems, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.
Do you love mathematics? Are you looking for suitable material that you can use to inspire your student of mathematics?
Review of “Set of Primers on Mathematics”, Shailesh Shirali Read Post »
This is a charming fable written by a trained scientist and teacher, ‘for the child in everyone’ as the blurb says.
Review of “Curioser and Curioser”, Neeraja Raghavan Read Post »
These are the first three in a series of books designed to help the young to understand and deal with the world within themselves…
Review of “Krishnamurti for the Young – A Series of Three Books”, Edited by Ahalya Chari Read Post »
There was a child went forth every day, And the first object he look’d upon and received with wonder or pity or love or dread, that object he became, And that object became part of him for the day or a certain part of the day …Or for many years or stretching cycles of years.
Teachers choose their vocation for a number of reasons: love of a subject, a desire to share one’s passion with others, care for young children, interest in understanding the human mind, or to have a say in shaping the next generation.
Review of “The Courage to Teach”, Parker J. Palmer Read Post »
It is rarely that one comes across a book about young girls that is not merely a saga of their times, of the pain and struggles in their lives, but also takes a proactive approach to actually doing what the title suggests – Reviving Ophelia.
Review of “Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls”, Mary Pipher (Ph D) Read Post »
This is a set of six videos on child development, each lasting from one to one and a half hours, anchored by Dr.
Review of “A Series on Children’s Development”, Dr. Joseph Chilton Pearce Read Post »
“Keats complained that Newton had destroyed the poetry of the rainbow by explaining it.
Review of “Unweaving the Rainbow”, Richard Dawkins Read Post »
Resurgence is a magazine published every two months from Cornwall, U.K.
Review of “Resurgence”, Edited by Satish Kumar Read Post »
Is history only a study of what happened’ and when, and what happened next?
A New Journal Prism: A Learning journal is a publication of Prism Communication, a Paris-based language training association, edited by Richard Laubly and Helen Schall, 151, Rue du Fauborg- Poissonniere, 75009 Paris.
Review of “Prism: A Learning Journal”, Edited by Richard Laubly and Helen Schall Read Post »
Stephen Jay Gould is one of the most popular writers on science today.
Review of “Life’s Grandeur”, Stephen Jay Gould Read Post »
Have you recently talked with a three year old, and come away slightly dazed at the degree of sophistication in her conversation – the concepts she understands and applies so appropriately to each situation?
On one who has had but a passing acquaintance with history, this book had a profound and deep impact. First one learned about the author who was considered ‘a prince among historians’. He belonged to a group of French scholars called Annales, School of Historians. In their quest for ‘total history’, this school included geography,
Review of “A History of Civilizations”, Fernand Braudel Read Post »
Ever since History emerged as a major and independent field of study during the time of the 18th Century European Enlightenment – the time of Voltaire, Gibbon, Rousseau and the French Encyclopaedists – the study of history has been subject to pulls in two different directions.
Review of “A History of Civilizations”, Fernand Braudel Read Post »
Good storytellers can demand your attention by showing you new ways of looking at an old story.
Review of “Classic Myths to Read Aloud”, William F. Russel Read Post »
Sophie’s World is a novel about the History of Philosophy.
This is a delightful book from one of our own teachers who has a distinctive approach to the teaching of art to children.
