Thomas Armstrong
I don’t remember how I learned to tell time. So, when I was asked by a Wisconsin school district to develop a multiple intelligences way of teaching time to a group of first graders, I was initially stymied.
Category: 2008
Discipline or Punish?
Nandini Nayar
What is the role of punishment in inculcating discipline in children today?
One for All, All for One
Manju Gupta
Many of us bemoan the fact that education has become too fiercely competitive, that the process of learning receives less attention than the product that we are contributing to a cut-throat culture where achievement means everything and understanding almost nothing.
Re-think, revise, reform
From time to time, the nation – and the media – focus on school education, debating such issues as the size of school bags, the dearth of teachers, the lack of infrastructure, and the woeful limits of the reach of Read More …
Stepping up: One reader at a time
What does it take to put together a magazine? Well, it takes some ideas, a team to work on them, people who understand text and pictures and the way they play together in the reader’s mind, and a way to Read More …
Beyond profiteering
A multitude of messages assail your senses every waking hour, advertisements in the morning newspaper, notices pasted on walls despite the ‘stick no bills’ warning, superhuman size hoardings popping off rooftops and lining the roads, signs on buses and autorickshaws, Read More …
Staffroom politics, student perceptions
When a bunch of people get together, there are bound to be differences – of opinion, values and practices. When the people are professionals, the differences may be even more signifi cant, particularly if there are areas where interaction is Read More …
Left out of the loop… Again?
A lot of newsprint has – quite unusually – been devoted to school education in Andhra Pradesh in the last month. The AP State Government has drawn the ire of civil society organisations and teachers’ groups with its recent announcement Read More …
Staying Fresh
As the heat bears down on me my mind fixes on an image; a fi gure reclining in a chair, dressed in cool white, one arm resting across the back of the chair while the other holds a book. A Read More …
The Teaching Effect
Anyone who has been in the profession of teaching long enough to have students who are now well past their last degree will have had the experience of their pupils coming back to tell them how their time in school Read More …