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India at 75: Diverse influences on Indian education system and the pledges to redeem
To mark 75 years of our independence, Anurag Behar, CEO, Azim Premji Foundation, in Mint, shares a list of events, people, trends and ideas from modern India that have shaped India’s school education.
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How environmental awareness for preschoolers can create a lifelong impact on them
Yogesh GR, in Learning Curve magazine, illustrates how anganwadi teachers can create opportunities through which children are able to observe and explore local habitats and a foundation for greater environmental awareness is laid.
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Philatelic journey: How stamps became part of India’s family planning mission
Vikas Kumar, faculty, Azim Premji University, in ThePrint, highlights how family planning was a major philatelic theme for more than three decades between 1966 and 1999 in India.
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How and what to teach students to improve their understanding of Nature of Science (NOS)
Arvind Kumar, in i wonder magazine, discusses the rationale for introducing Nature of Science in school science curricula, its evolving perspectives, and the approaches we may adopt to enable the learning of this topic.
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Why we cannot ignore the consequences of an out-of-control global production and consumption system
We must seize this decade if we are to have any hope of wrestling back a liveable future for ourselves, our children and grandchildren. We must get emissions under control in the next 3 – 5 years, writes Harini Nagendra, Faculty, Azim Premji University, in Deccan Herald.
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Azim Premji University Study: Teacher efforts to support learning recovery after school reopening
Given the widespread and deep effects of school closure on learning levels of students, the study recommends a more sustained long-term effort by the entire public school system to focus on the recovery of learning loss.
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How teachers can use shadows and reflections to link everyday observations to the concept of light
Studying light is an opportunity for teachers to enthuse students about science, by relating it to observations that they can themselves make and think about, writes Rajaram Nityananda, in i wonder magazine.
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Will a skills-inclusive education enable schooling for all?
V Santhakumar, in Learning Curve magazine, explains how individual desire to achieve social or economic mobility, or society’s concern about growing inequality may make certain experiments in this regard ineffective.
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Book corner in every classroom to help students overcome exam anxiety and enjoy the process of reading
Reading books other than their textbooks helps students to understand that they can use this skill whenever they want to understand the world around them, writes Shehnaz DK in Learning Curve magazine.
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How teachers can use nature and human beings as Teaching-Learning Materials (TLMs)
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.
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Is celebrating the success of a child prodigy in academia, art or sports good for the child?
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.
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School Education: Why promoting Computational Thinking (CT) in schools is desirable
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.
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Parliamentarians must ask more pertinent questions on climate change
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.
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Gender Education: Conversation on gender in a rural classroom
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.
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How an experiment opens up new ways of engaging with one’s subject and invites to reflect on practices of fieldwork
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.