From Visibility to Accountability and Assessment: A Sleight of Hand
School is an institution for drilling children [and teachers] in cultural orientations.
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Editorial
Krishnamurti questioned the schools constantly about why they were producing mice instead of lions and gazelles.
Mushtifund School, Goa: The Story of How a Mainstream Traditional School Experimented with Change
The purpose of writing this article is not to project any story of achievement.
Editorial
This is the fourteenth issue of the Journal and what started as an in-house exchange between the various Krishnamurti schools has, over the years, slowly and quietly found a wider audience.
Reaching out to Government Schools in Tamil Nadu
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.
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The Evolution of the Sanctuary Schools at Kaigal
It is nine in the morning at Kalligutta, a remote tribal settlement just outside the Kaundinya Wildlife Sanctuary, Andhra Pradesh.
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Editorial
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’.
Desperate Times and a New Order of Education
Listening to my daughter’s tenth grade history teacher at Parents’ Night the other evening, I found out that California high school world history covers only modern history:the European Enlightenment, the French Revolution, world colonialism, World War I, World War II, the Cold War and so on up to the present day.
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School Administration: For Humanness and 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.
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Editorial
It all started with a feeling that the legacy that Krishnamurti had left us in the form of his vision of education was something precious that had to be conserved, explored and shared.
Towards a Philosophy of Physical Education
For some years now I have been interested in the potential of physical education (PE) to support inquiry and learning.
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Points of View: Computers in School Education
The information revolution is sweeping the world. Computer networks capable of storing, processing and transmitting vast amounts of data are webbing their way into the lives of people the world over.
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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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Editorial
The ground around is covered with dry leaves, and above, the birds twitter and hop among the bare branches.
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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A Journey into Education: An interview
Sreedhar (S): Rajesh, for over two decades, you have been associated with tlie schools Krishnamurti founded in India.
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Skotmos in School
We recognize the growing complexity of the challenges facing schools today and we seek answers in educational reform and innovation.
Editorial
As we are all aware J. Krishnamurti was not only a great seer but a wise educator, perhaps the most radical that this century has produced.