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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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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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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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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Confessions of a Science Teacher
I would like to share my concern for the teaching and future of my subject, as also to suggest the basis of the way that I would proceed, should I get the opportunity to teach again.
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A Feeling for Beauty: Dance in Education
Long before a child sees that the world is made up of books and classrooms he is aware that he can do the most amazing things with his hands and feet.
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Helping students understand the place of studying Computer Science
Living and teaching in a school situated in the hub of the IT revolution, the impact of computers on a child’s psyche is not hard to observe.
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