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How teachers can help first-generation school children learn without fear and stress
Vidhya Das, in Learning Curve magazine, shares her experiences from Agragamee school, which addresses complex issues affecting learning in first-generation school children in the tribal districts of Orissa.
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Children are not picking up the four basic numerical skills adequately. How to modify the teaching practices?
No matter what one does, the ability to add, subtract, multiply and divide is crucial and needed for everyday matters. Swati Sircar, in the Learning Curve magazine, explores the resources to enable children to master these basic operations.
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How Environmental Education can support efforts to address the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), adopted by UN
Compelling stories and evidence through case studies would support the understanding of Environmental Education (EE) writes Chandrika Muralidhar in the Learning Curve magazine.
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Why experimental evolution is a powerful approach to study evolution
In an era of massive environmental upheavals like deforestation, habitat loss, and global warming, Shampa M Ghosh, in i wonder… magazine, explores how this approach can be a great tool to understand and predict evolutionary changes in nature.
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How to include the arts into learning experiences, to create environmental awareness
When diversity of artistic expression is shared and discussed in the classroom, children get sensitised to perceive diversity and nuances within their own environment, writes Malavika Rajnarayan, in Learning Curve magazine.
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Passionate about public transport, student lists bus routes to and from Sarjapura, Bengaluru
Vikas Gotla, MA Development student, Azim Premji University, took a year to compile the data. He wants people to understand that they can count on buses and that a lot of money can be saved by using them.
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Why an English-only education is neither desirable nor doable in India
T Vijay Kumar and Giridhar Rao, in Telangana Today, highlight how a multilingual or bilingual nationally enforced education policy could instead adapt the best of both worlds and foster critical thinking, as emphasised in NEP 2020.
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Is there a perfect time to hang up one’s boots?
With lifespans increasing, more and more people will spend a third of their life in retirement. Sudheesh Venkatesh, in The Times of India, writes that it can be the next big adventure and a time to give generously for the prepared mind.
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Indian 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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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 the 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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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 member, 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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Why there is no societal improvement that is sustainable on its own
Anurag Behar, CEO, Azim Premji Foundation, in Mint, explains the problems with the notion that development and improvement should be sustainable, without the need of continuing intervention or support from any agency outside that community.
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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.