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How teachers can build on students’ prior knowledge to explain new ideas in lively, engaging ways
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.
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Thomas Piketty’s new book ‘A Brief History of Equality’ is well-suited for undergraduate courses
India’s colonial history and its post-independence attempts to reduce caste-based inequalities find prominence in the book. Amit Basole, faculty member, Azim Premji University, in The Hindu, writes that Piketty’s suggestions strike at the heart of capitalism.
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Two years of NEP 2020: How teachers, researchers and learners can engage with the idea of an ‘Indian’ education
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.
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Why the EIU liveability index has less to do with people and more to do with businesses
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.
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Multilingual education: Lessons from Vasantshala on encouraging students to speak their mother tongue in the classroom
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.
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Activity-based science learning: How teachers can offer students an experience of the scientific process
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.
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What happens when you teach the concept of Democracy in schools?
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.
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How the teaching-learning process through the Nali-Kali methodology enables quality learning for all children
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.
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Three-day exhibition of Schoolbooks Archive from 19 – 21 July at Vidya Bhawan Society, Udaipur
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.
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Embodied learning: How educators can reconsider the role of human senses and movement in learning
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.
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Mathematics Education: Why children fear division and how teachers can tackle it
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.
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Teacher Education: How curricular interventions can bridge the distance between teachers and students
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.
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How an organisation can liberate itself to provide its members with autonomy and freedom
S Giridhar, in the Hindu Business Line, explains how a thorough recruitment process can ensure that an institution achieves a vibrant, creative, and collegial atmosphere and how over time, ownership and belonging become a part of the organisational DNA.
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How incorporating art into biology can enhance student learning
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.
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Teacher Education: How to support children of migrant labourers with their studies
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.
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Development sector: Why decision making is far removed from ground realities
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?
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How geometry can be taught through methodical ideas from the Vedic civilisation
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.
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Role of the teacher in translating radical shifts in the vision of citizenship introduced in textbooks
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.
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Meet the human body’s private army: How to introduce children to the human immune system
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.
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COVID-19 pandemic policy on schooling: Time for a big rethink
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.