Understanding life’s history teaches us that each living form is precious and represents a single unbroken path reaching into the past, explains Mukund Thattai in i wonder magazine.

Kamala V Mukunda, in Learning Curve magazine, writes that children are designed to learn from real-world environments. This structures children’s interactions with both nature and other people and helps go beyond their spontaneous, playful interactions.

Long-term success hinges on a wider range of abilities than quick and short-term accomplishments. Highly talented youngsters often fail to reach their full potential. Sudheesh Venkatesh, in YourStory, suggests ways to help them stay on course.

R Ramanujam in At Right Angles (AtRiA) highlights that the coupling of mathematical and computational thinking, as per NEP 2020, is significant since this suggests completely doing away with the current model of ​“computer classes” and moving over to teaching the science underlying computing, the emphasis being on thinking.

Terms like ​‘global warming’ or ​‘climate change’ hardly reverberate in the sound-proof halls of Parliament. While there is a global crisis unfolding that is set to permanently shift the course of human history, most parliamentarians seem blissfully ignorant of it, writes Shashwat D C in Moneycontrol.

Sunil Kumar, in Learning Curve magazine, shares that the biggest challenge he encountered while teaching the chapter ​‘Society and Role of Women’ to students of class VII was to acquaint them with gender-based discriminatory behaviour in their own families. 

Interviews from field work usually end up being sifted to help build up the researcher’s argument. ​‘Mobile Girls Koottam’ by Madhumita Dutta proves that needn’t always be the case, writes Karuna Dietrich Wielenga, Faculty, Azim Premji University, in The Wire.

Rashood K K, Rohit Mehta and Punya Mishra, in i wonder magazine, use insights from science education research on the teaching of energy to illustrate how teachers can facilitate students’ ability to connect ideas and disciplines.

India’s colonial history and its post-independence attempts to reduce caste-based inequalities find prominence in the book. Amit Basole, Faculty, Azim Premji University, in The Hindu, writes that Piketty’s suggestions strike at the heart of capitalism.

Malini Bhattacharjee, Faculty, Azim Premji University, highlights in Deccan Herald, highlights why educational and research institutions must take cognisance of this opportunity to develop a robust framework for an Indian education system.

The Economist Intelligence Unit’s (EIU’s) index measures liveability in silos. It needs to be understood in the context of the social, economic, and political processes of development, writes Anusha Bhat, an alumna of MA Development, Azim Premji University, in Deccan Herald.

Sonal Baxi and Sandhya Gajjar, in Learning Curve magazine, explain the importance of a more engaged teacher community and greater emphasis on mother tongue and first language-based education, especially in underprivileged and tribal environments. 

Rohini Karandikar and Subhojit Sen, in i wonder magazine, delve into an activity-based approach around Alexander Fleming’s discovery of penicillin to explain how connecting experimental ideas with stories of discovery can offer students an introduction to the nature of science. 

Abhilasha Awasthi, in Learning Curve magazine, writes about her research study at Azim Premji School, Dineshpur, on how students became more aware of inequality and discrimination in their surroundings.

In Learning Curve magazine, Umashanker Periodi writes about the Nali-Kali (joyful learning) methodology and the importance of this multi-grade, multi-level, activity-based teaching-learning process in reaching every child with quality education as its core element.

Azim Premji University will hold the exhibition of the open-access digital repository, along with a few hundred print copies of archived books, titled Schoolbooks and related documents: A journey through two centuries, jointly with Vidya Bhawan Society.

Paul Reimer, Rohit Mehta and Punya Mishra, in i wonder magazine, use research in science education to illustrate how teachers can create immersive, full-body thinking and knowing experiences for their students.

Gomathy Ramamoorthy, in Learning Curve magazine, writes how the rules of division are a process but understanding the concept needs reasoning and focused inferential work.

Shubhra Chatterji, in Learning Curve magazine, shares an initiative that reinforces that all children can and will learn if the learning is made relevant to their lives, presented with empathy and understanding and has the teacher’s involvement in the entire process.

Kaustubh Rau, in i wonder magazine, explains based on his own classroom experiences, how the lines between art and biology are fluid, and learning and practices from one field can inform and enhance understanding in the other. 

Shantha K in Learning Curve magazine says teachers should be more sensitive and provide ample support during class time, encourage more classwork and remove the concept of homework.

In Mint, Anurag Behar, CEO, Azim Premji Foundation explains how distancing from the field, flattens the details, the nuances and the complex inter-relationships. What could be done to eliminate these distortions caused by distancing and avoid losing perspective?

S G Dani and Medha Limaye, in At Right Angles (AtRiA) magazine, explain the commonalities of the geometry of sulvasutras with Euclidean geometry and how exposure to the different perspectives could enhance students’ interest and their ability to grasp geometry.

Rupamanjari Hegde, in Learning Curve magazine, highlights how curricular changes become meaningful only when they are able to effectively transform the classroom teaching process, which can happen with the active intervention of the teacher.

Vignesh Narayanan H, in i wonder magazine, explores the human body, ​‘an eternal battleground’, its invaders and the fight against them, through a first-hand account by a soldier (cell) in the human immune system.

Anurag Behar, CEO, Azim Premji Foundation, in Mint, writes that the unprecedented education crisis requires both competence and courage of our state-level leadership, and the sensitivity to recognise that their actions affect the future of millions of children.

Anurag Behar, in Mint, highlights the work of Government school teachers who have been at the forefront to tackle the COVID-19 pandemic. He says that their deaths, a tragedy, could have only resulted from extreme callousness — deploying teachers in situations of high risk, without adequate protection and safety.

Priya Krishnamurthy, in Learning Curve magazine, highlights how there are clear linkages between Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), child rights and children’s own awareness of their rights and their ability to secure them.