Brockwood Park School: Staff Retreat
Teachers of a school are colleagues in a special sense of the word.
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Reporting on the Middle School Child
The periodic task of writing end-of-term reports is like the visible ‘tip of an iceberg’ that comprises many layers and processes in school.
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Reporting on the Junior School Child
In the child’s initial years at school, parents and teachers together are responsible for creating an environment which is conducive for learning to take place.
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Reporting on the Kindergarten Child
A report for a child in the kindergarten is a recording of the teacher’s observation of the child within a sensible framework.
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Reporting On a Child at School
“The purpose, the aim and drive of these schools, is to equip the child with the most excellent technological proficiency so that the student may function with clarity and efficiency in the modern world.
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River Talk from the School in the Forest
Cool water, spilling over black stone. I stand still, watching vapors rise from your skin.
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A Journey into Education: An interview
Sridhar (S): Rajesh, many people feel that Krishnamurti’s teaching is abstract and impractical for today’s world and especially so in the organizational context of a school.
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At School with Design: Introducing Design Studies
As parents of children at the school, three of us (Aarti Kawlra, Deepa Kamath and Kalpana Shah Korwar) have been associated with different projects and activities at The School, KFI—in the preparation of a class newspaper, in teaching a session on the role of cotton and weaving in the Industrial Revolution, in the designing of the wash area outside the dining hall.
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Making School Trips Meaningful
Just a few days before our last school trip, a friend of ours, an anthropology scholar, visited us at school.
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Understanding Another Way of Learning: Personal Observations of a Junior School Classroom
I must begin by setting the scene. I moved to Chennai, India just under eighteen months ago from the United Kingdom, where I have spent most of my life.
In Quest of Total Excellence
Surely a school is a place where one learns about the totality, the wholeness of life.
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What is a True Community?
It’s a winter afternoon, and the sun shines red through the trees as I walk through the woods.
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Stepping into Kindergarten
I undertook training in Kindergarten education at the Children’s Garden School in Chennai in 1978.
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Working with the People of Kaigal Valley: Beginnings of a Conservation Project
The Kaigal Valley landThe Krishnamurti Foundation India has had in its care about 200 acres of beautiful forest land at Kaigal Valley near the town of Palamner since 1984.
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Studying Culture at Brockwood
Introduction In this piece I will discuss an Anthropology module we did at Brockwood, as part of a new class called the ‘Main Lesson’.
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From Brockwood Park School
Brockwood Park School in England, founded by Krishnamurti in 1969, is an international residential school that brings together around 60 students from around 20 countries, aged between 14 and 20.
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Introducing Books by Krishnamurti on life and learning
UNDERSTANDING OURSELVES KRISHNAMURTI FOUNDATION TRUST, BROCKWOOD PARK, BRAMDEAN, HAMPSHIRE SO24 OLQ, ENGLAND, 1999, £ 9 – 14 US $.
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Learning in Mixed Age Groups: How We Made the Transition
A school, like any other institution, is a complex amalgam of intentions, processes, practices and of course, people.
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Innovations in Education: Vidyodaya – an attempt to walk a different path
‘You are supposed to be teachers and you don’t send your children to school?!’ The local community was aghast.
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Creating an Atmosphere in School: For ‘teachers-who-are-learners’
One of the features of schools is that teachers are expected to do what they are allocated.
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Questioning Ourselves: Reflections on a Teachers’ Gathering
The Annual Teachers’ Conference held at The Valley School, Bangalore between 15 and 17 Oct, 1999, was an occasion for the coming together of teachers from the various KFI centres.
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Learning to be a Teacher: Impressions of the Teachers’ Conference – 1998
Krishnamurti has often spoken about all our schools being one.
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The Middle Ground
This a reflection on the attempt we are making at Brockwood to put into practice the educational intentions of Krishnamurti.
Review of “The Unschooled Mind: How Children Think and What Schools Should Teach”, Howard Gardner
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?
Dancing with Shadows: Graduation Address, 1997
Welcome to the 1997 Oak Grove School Graduation Ceremonies.
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Travels from Schools
I vividly remember the first school trip in 1983 with a group of standard 9 students at The Valley School.
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Comparison and Education
At the outset these two words would to appear to have little in common.
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Review of “Sophie’s World: Jostein Gaarder”, Translated from the Norwegian by Paulette Millen
Sophie’s World is a novel about the History of Philosophy.
Birth of a School
The Pune Centre of the Krishnamurti Foundation saw the birth of Sahyadri School in September 1995.
School and Community – The Story of Satellite Schools
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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