Shibumi, in Bangalore, is a small alternative centre started by a group which includes a trustee of the KFI and teachers who have worked and studied in various Krishnamurti schools in India.
The School as a Centre of Inquiry for Adults: Inviting Parents to the School Read Post »
In late 2011 Oak Grove School facilitated a series of one-hour dialogues focused on an exploration of punishment and reward in educational practice.
Vision and Practice: Exploring Reward and Punishment in Education Read Post »
The right kind of education begins with the educator, who must understand himself and be free from established patterns of thought; for what he is, that he imparts.
Theme Meetings: A Conversation Space for Educators and Parents Read Post »
Ethic – a set of moral principles, esp. ones relating to or affirming a specified group, field or form of conduct: the puritan ethic was being replaced by the hedonist ethic.
Prashanti’s Dilemma: Wisdom and Struggle in Students’ Voices Read Post »
The purpose of writing this article is not to project any story of achievement.
Teachers are human beings too. And being human, they share in the fears that human beings live with.
Teachers’ Fears: Some Scenarios Read Post »
Adolescence is marked in every culture by what anthropologists have called ‘rites of passage’ involving the social recognition of entry into puberty, usually through a formal ritual or ceremony.
Being and Becoming: Some Thoughts on Adolescence and Fear Read Post »
Suppose you were to ask a young child, 13 years old, to write down her answer to the question: what are you afraid of?
Excerpts from a talk given at the International Symposium on ‘Being Alive to Responsible Citizenship: J.
Oak Grove School: The Growth of a Learning Centre Read Post »
The Study Centre at Bangalore has been conducting programs for the school children of The Valley School since 1993.
Glimpses of the Children’s Programme at the Study Centre, Bangalore Read Post »
True to its eclectic character, this fifteenth issue of the Journal of Krishnamurti Schools has a collection of articles on diverse subjects and topics.
This article describes a new exploration at Oak Grove School, Ojai – Editors’Academic excellence is absolutely necessary, but a school includes much more than that…’ J KrishnamurtiOne of the great challenges of providing a Krishnamurti education within the context of an independent tuition-based school (especially here in America), is balancing accountability for academic excellence with all that is entailed in what he considered to be ‘much more than that’.
Exploring a New Dimension to Learning Read Post »
In the brief articles that follow, we re-examine and unravel the meanings of words commonly used in the field of education.DisciplineWe admire well regulated, ordered lives.
Re-examining Words in Education Read Post »
Several years ago my son, then in Class Seven, came home disturbed about an incident in school.
Poorna: An Alternative, Inclusive School Read Post »
I am a 17-year-old adolescent male. I am sure this very statement gives you the heebie-jeebies! My parents and teachers are highly educated and have no qualms in sharing all the latest research on adolescents, plus their own home-grown wisdom about teenagers, with me.
Educating Romeo and His Teacher Read Post »
Most children experience a sharp dichotomy between home and school.
Learning in Kinship Read Post »
Prefatory NoteSince the publication in July 2 2006 of the Journal of Krishnamurti Schools ‘dedicated to the teacher’, there has been an increasing, if varied, response to the necessary task of educating the educator.
The School of Life Read Post »
The School, KFI, Chennai has created a new methodology that seeks to build a link between knowledge and empowerment, to equip each student with the ability to think, to apply and to discover.
Reaching out to Government Schools in Tamil Nadu Read Post »
Teachers often see research as involving distance and separation from their work.
Action Research: The Power of Action through Inquiry Read Post »
This article is an account of a pilot project on learning in a mixed age group environment in the middle school classes 5, 6 and 7, initiated at The School, KFI, in Chennai in the year 2006-2007.
A Structural Answer to a Cultural Question: Mixed Age Group in the Middle School Read Post »
It is almost received wisdom in alternative schools and other similar communities that rules are antigrowth; they restrict creativity and stifle the true cooperative spirit.
It is nine in the morning at Kalligutta, a remote tribal settlement just outside the Kaundinya Wildlife Sanctuary, Andhra Pradesh.
The Evolution of the Sanctuary Schools at Kaigal Read Post »
Teaching environmental education has been part of our curriculum at the Rishi Valley School well before the subject was made mandatory for all students as per the orders of the Supreme Court.
Drawing Students into Environmental Education Read Post »
The world over, we lament the state of education. We might observe directly the plight of a generation of young people weighed down by the burden of seemingly meaningless academic curricula and indifferent teaching practices, alongside spiralling aspirations for securing the ‘good life’.
One of our friends who comes from a nearby village reported that the first thing a new headmaster does to make his presence felt in a village, is to paint the school building and then expel a student! He told us the story when our own school building was being painted at the time of the joining of a new principal.
The Idea of Santiniketan: A Personal Understanding Read Post »
We are apt to feel, in the cut and press of daily life and in the fulfilment of our responsibilities to the school and to its students, that our lives are caught up in minutiae: ongoing lesson preparation, correction of papers, assessment, examinations, meetings and administrative decisions.
It is the Educator who Needs Educating Read Post »
What does health mean to young people? They are active and energetic and rarely lack in physical vitality.
It is not bigotry to be certain we are right; but it is bigotry to be unable to imagine how we might possibly have gone wrong.
School Administration: For Humanness and Vitality Read Post »
I have been asked to contribute to the Journal which is now marking the first decade of its existence, and I am happy to do so because of my involvement in the work of the Foundations, which, of course, can be seen at so many levels as part of the world of education.
Responsibility to the Other Read Post »
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.
The Post School Programme, located at the Bangalore Education Centre of KFI, is an attempt to extend these concerns of the Krishnamurti Schools to high school graduates and other young adults.
After School, What? Read Post »
