Dialogue Through the Ages
‘What do you think dialogue is all about?’
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‘To Know Is Not Enough’: Critical Thinking in a Krishnamurti School
Underneath the obvious critical situation of the economy and the environment, isn’t the world today actually suffering from a crisis in knowing and thinking?
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Learning from Feedback
You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view …
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On Lighting a Passion for Reading
It was on a crisp winter morning, when the entire teacher body of Rajghat Besant School sat in the eastern verandah of our magnificent assembly hall that it was announced that articles were invited for the Journal of Krishnamurti Schools.
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Not Different in Kind: Exploration into the Teacher-Student Relationship
This article is a rumination on what happens in us teachers when we ‘teach’ another.
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Educating to be a Part of not Apart from the Environment
We are academicians-cum-practitioners, one from the environmentalsciences and the other from the socialsciences, coming together as teachers withthe aim of re-envisioning an approach toenvironmental studies.
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Big Brother isn’t Watching You – and is not too sure what he is seeing
Recently, on a blackboard in a very public corridor used by students for good-natured but generally anonymous graffiti, something like the following had been neatly printed: SMILE WHEN YOU USE COMPUTERS IN THE COMPS LAB – YOU’RE UNDER CCTV.
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Prashanti’s Dilemma: Wisdom and Struggle in Students’ Voices
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.
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What is Academic Rigour?
‘Academics’ is a top priority in all educational institutions, for obvious reasons.
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Teaching at University: Challenges and Concerns
Is authentic learning possible in the heady atmosphere of an elite university, or is the race for degrees and prestigious jobs too overwhelming?
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Learning in Friendship and Leisure
This is a description of a special month-long coming together of a few students and staff from Brockwood Park, UK, in India.
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Self and Society: An Approach to Teaching Social Studies
We are talking about … schools cultivating in the young that most ‘subversive’ intellectual instrument—the anthropological perspective.
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Project-based Learning
Last November, Oak Grove School welcomed to its beautiful campus both current and prospective families for an All School Showcase and Open House.
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An Invitation to Look Inward
Krishnamurti felt quite strongly that one of the major functions of education is to nurture the capacity to look inward.
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Teachers’ Fears: Some Scenarios
Teachers are human beings too. And being human, they share in the fears that human beings live with.
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Fear: An Introduction to the Section
When the editors’ team met in July 2010 to discuss the content of the new edition the discussion turned to the number of suicides by young people reported daily in newspapers.
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Learning to be a Teacher of History: Excerpts from the Journal of a Beginner
I joined Rajghat Besant School, Varanasi, in July 2009 as a resource person to teach Class XII students.
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Timeless Questions: A Twelfth Grade Social Studies Class
As a teacher I am always looking for a good thesis sentence, for that perfect one-sentence statement that is a concise summary of an article, a film, an argument, a teaching.
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Poorna: An Alternative, Inclusive School
Several years ago my son, then in Class Seven, came home disturbed about an incident in school.
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Let’s Play
As a sports teacher the first thing that struck me, or should I say shocked me, was that sports was not a time that everyone looked forward to.
Educating Romeo and His Teacher
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.
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Scribbles on a Blackboard: Travels to a Turkish Mathematics Village
An e-mail query in support of a Turkish Mathematics Village more than a year ago lead to a most illuminating, intellectually broadening and exciting experience at the annual Turkish Mathematics Summer School in the idyllic and sleepy but enchanting village of Sirince.
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The School of Life
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.
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Music in the Classroom
Some years ago, I attended a workshop conducted in Bangalore by teachers from the Royal College of Music, Stockholm.
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On Being an Effective Teacher
We have all had some great teachers. Or at least, if we have not been fortunate enough, we have heard of great teachers.
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Self-directed Learning in Mathematics: Applying Krishnamurti in everyday classroom practice
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.
A Structural Answer to a Cultural Question: Mixed Age Group in the Middle School
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.
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Preparing Students for Examinations And Teaching a Subject Well
There is an implicit assumption widely shared by teachers in the Krishnamurti schools that preparing students to face examinations shifts focus away from learning a subject.
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Rules of Living
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.
Drawing Students into Environmental Education
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.
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An Approach to Environmental Education: Lessons from Krishnamurti
This article is based on my experience of teaching Environmental Education for Classes 9 and 10 for the past ten years.
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