Himani Tyagi A generation ago, families imparted life skills and value education to their children. In India, the extended family and community also played an active role. Today, with nuclear families prevailing, busy parents rely on schools to impart life Read More …
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The peer advantage
Sharayu Kamath As a child, I grew up in an extended family with several cousins and friends my age or slightly younger or older. Schooling was in a large, all girls convent, with over 3000 students marching to the rhythm Read More …
When everyone’s a learner and teacher
Divya Choudary You’ve been through this. You wrack your brains over a particular concept or problem and still find the solution elusive. And then, a friend comes by, and over a cup of coffee explains it to you and you Read More …
Learning from one another
Meeta Sengupta “When children teach each other, they learn better.” I remember hearing this from a teacher in a simple school in a small town. Then I heard the same last year from Vicky Colbert, WISE Laureate. Indeed this is Read More …
EducaTED Talks!
The TED talks can be really inspiring especially when the ideas are innovative. Here are a few talks on re-imagining education that we share with you.
Call me by my name?
The times are changing. And so is the relationship between the teacher and the student. There are some teachers who prefer to be called by their name and do not look at it as a sign of disrespect. So, is referring to your teacher as Sir, or Madam relevant these days? A very different point of view has been expressed in this article and deserves to be read.
To touch lives
While most schools have embraced technology in terms of smart boards, audio-visual rooms, computer labs etc, at the fundamental level, education and the role of the teacher has not been altered by technology. Is this a blessing or a bane or both? Read on to find out.
Let’s keep asking questions
In an education system that is driven and controlled by market-dominated economics, it is crucial that the alternative space is kept alive to ask questions, to experiment and to explore the relationship between the present system and the changing role of the teacher.
Harmonizing chaos
This article raises some pertinent questions about the role of the teacher in the context of Waldorf education. Every teacher must understand who the child is and allow the child to be natural. And in their most natural states, children play, move, sing and dance and love to listen to stories. Read up the article to know how you can you can give children back to themselves.
Re-imagining teachers, reclaiming education
What is the role and place of the teacher? In this interesting article, the author urges readers to view the teacher as a ‘ transformative intellectual’. By viewing the teacher so, we acknowledge that the teacher’s responsibility is not merely to help children learn, but also to build a critical relationship between what they learn, their lives and society.