Chalk Out is a multilingual multimodal e‑zine that was born in September 2020 out of classroom conversations in an education course. During the pandemic, when Jamlo, a 12-year-old girl, embarked upon a 150 km journey, only to breathe her last, 50 km away from home, the students felt an immediate need to do something to express solidarity with the world of children and start asking questions about the state of education. Led by the students of BSc BEd programme, Chalk Out is our way of saying ​‘we care’. 

Each issue of Chalk Out is based on a theme in education. The themes are mostly centered around the world of children and teachers. Published twice a year, Chalk Out attempts to create a space where contributors can share their ideas, experiences, journeys, opinions, reflections, reviews, and conversations around the given theme. 

It has certain recurrent elements such as From those on the Frontlines, Teacher Feature, Dear Diary, and Questions to Mark.

Core Team

The Core Team consists of BSc BEd students in their third year of graduation along with faculty coordinators. This team is assisted by a Supporting Team of undergraduate students studying education. 

A core team works only for a year, after which it hands over the initiative to the core team of the incoming batch and takes up the responsibility of being advisors to that team. 

The core team members who have worked on the issues so far are as follows: 

• Issue 1: ​‘Online, but is it in-line?’: Jagannath Kolkunda, Lakshmi Jagdish, Manasi Barmecha, Megha Ramachandra, Mridula Kalluri
  Faculty Coordinators: Ruchi Mathur, Sonika Parashar, Vasvi Oza

• Issue 2: ​‘Care in the times of Corona’: Jagannath Kolkunda, Manasi Barmecha, Megha Ramachandra, Mridula Kalluri
  Faculty Coordinators: Ruchi Mathur, Sonika Parashar

• Issue 3: ​‘Teaching Tales, Learning Lore-Vol I’: Deepthi Perlapu, Juhi Jain, Risha Vaidya, Sai Kripa Giri, Veda Maskey
  Faculty Coordinators: Ruchi Mathur, Sonika Parashar

• Issue 4: ​‘Teaching Tales, Learning Lore-Vol II’: Deepthi Perlapu, Juhi Jain, Risha Vaidya, Sai Kripa Giri, Veda Maskey
  Faculty Coordinators: Ruchi Mathur, Sonika Parashar

• Issue 5: ​‘Changing Childhoods’: Akheel Mohammed, Akhila P, Janani Sriram, Jioo Nimkar, Shalem Nissie J
  Faculty Coordinator: Sonika Parashar

What’s Latest?

We are excited to announce the release of Chalk Out’s 5^th issue, which explores the theme of Changing Childhoods. It is a collection of articles, essays, and poems that offer diverse perspectives on childhoods and its multiple manifestations and connections with education. 

In Chalk Out — Issue 5 — Changing Childhoods, our contributors have delved into a range of issues around childhood, children and education, including the impact of language on learning, the role of technology in education, gender disparity, the use of punishment in schools, and the influence of society on education.

We hope this issue sparks meaningful conversations around the conceptualisation of the idea of childhoods, inspires new ways of thinking about the future of education of children, and encourages you to participate in creating the many issues to come.

The call for contributions for Issue 6 will be open soon.

Connect with us

Browse through the issues shared here and become a part of this journey of reflection and exploration. Hope the perspectives shared here add richness to your ideas of education, teaching, learning, and much more.

In case you would like to reach out to us, you can write to ug.​educationzine@​apu.​edu.​in

Issues

Read and download all previous issues below: