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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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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Vision and Practice: Exploring Reward and Punishment in Education
In late 2011 Oak Grove School facilitated a series of one-hour dialogues focused on an exploration of punishment and reward in educational practice.
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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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Awakening Empathy in Early Childhood
Young children experience conflict every day, generated by differences in age, size, physical abilities, language, race, ethnicity and culture, religion, family structure, socioeconomic class and gender: ‘No girls allowed!’Children wish to be treated fairly and they have problems with perceivedunfairness.
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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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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.
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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Oak Grove School: The Growth of a Learning Centre
Excerpts from a talk given at the International Symposium on ‘Being Alive to Responsible Citizenship: J.
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Teaching Academy: A Participant’s Perspective
To educate another, you must re-educate yourself, a strenuous task.This statement is, perhaps, widely understood by most teachers who have been in the classroom for more than a few years.
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Teaching Academy, Ojai 2009
Krishnamurti suggested that, ‘Education can be transformed only by educating the educator, and not merely creating a new pattern, a new system of action.’ Around this challenge, a group of educators participated in a two-week intensive Teaching Academy in the summer of 2009, at Ojai, California.
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Exploring a New Dimension to Learning
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’.
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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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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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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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Action Research: The Power of Action through Inquiry
Teachers often see research as involving distance and separation from their work.
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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’.
Review of “A Flame of Learning”, J. Krishnamurti
A Flame of Learning’ is not an easy book to read—but then few worthwhile things are easy.
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Dimensions of Awareness
A distinctive feature of holistic education is nurturing the spirit.
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Krishnamurti’s Letters to His Schools: Introducing a New Edition
It is a great privilege to be involved in editing Krishnamurti’s works.
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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.
Brockwood Park School: Staff Retreat
Teachers of a school are colleagues in a special sense of the word.
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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.
Review of “The Courage to Teach”, Parker J. Palmer
Teachers choose their vocation for a number of reasons: love of a subject, a desire to share one’s passion with others, care for young children, interest in understanding the human mind, or to have a say in shaping the next generation.
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Media and Education
There is an urgent concern among educators about the pervasive role that the media plays in all our lives today.
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For all you Maths Teachers out There!: On the Mathematics Teachers’ Conference at Rishi Valley
I am sure all you mathematics teachers out there have had the following experience.
The Greening of the Mindscape
The story is told about a kind-hearted amateur who raised butterflies as a hobby.
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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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For an Earth-Centred Curriculum (Based on deliberations at a Workshop on Bio-diversity)
(Based on deliberations at a Workshop on Bio-diversity)
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