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How the post-pandemic normalcy could be a whole lot better
Anurag Behar, CEO, Azim Premji Foundation, in Mint, recollects experiences from his travels through India, from April 2020 to August 2021, and highlights the courage of ordinary Indians who were out for battle.
The Vizhijam port project: How the establishment of a port will affect the lives of fisherfolk
The project will presumably open up employment and other economic opportunities but won’t address the social deprivation that the fishing community there has suffered over the decades, writes Shravan M K in Mint.
Writing a modern biology textbook for the Indian classroom: The experience with iThink Biology
Kaustubh Rau, faculty member, shares why iThink Biology, a free online textbook inaugurated by Azim Premji University in 2021, is a unique educational resource for Indian undergraduate students and educators of biology, in India Bioscience.
Maths Education: How spinners can help students integrate probability within the rest of data handling
The Math Space (Mathematics laboratory at Azim Premji University) team, in At Right Angles (AtRiA), explores the variety of ‘spinners’ and the teaching opportunities available, if educators are willing to take a chance on them.
How creating a culture of dialogue can nurture wellbeing in schools
Aruna Jyothi and Shobha L Kavoori, in Learning Curve, share their experience — while setting up the Azim Premji Schools — of building a culture that promotes wellbeing.
ECCE: How to make children understand writing in their early years
Neha Mittal, Faculty member, Azim Premji University, in India Today, highlights the importance of parents, teachers, and other stakeholders to fruition the vision of NEP 2020 — to make every child proficient in reading and writing by grade III.
The Biology of Electricity: How electricity is critical to the functioning of the human body
Ramgopal Vallath, in i wonder…, explains why it is important to touch upon the importance of electricity in Biology, even though it is mainly explored as a topic in Physics in school science, and touched upon in Chemistry.
How expressive art forms can be tools for teachers in the classroom
Mahima Rastogi, in Learning Curve, explains how expressive art can create a culture of care and empathy in the classroom. She stresses the need to talk about emotions in the classroom and provide a space for expression.
Science Education: What students can learn through everyday explorations of their natural environment
Meenakshi Umesh, in i wonder…, explains how involving children and adults with the activities of everyday life in and around school offers opportunities to observe, question, and investigate natural phenomena, with Puvidham Learning Centre as an example.
How Nehru-era stamps showed past glory, vision of modern India
The copious philatelic output featuring Nehru between 1964 and 1998 presented him as an institution-builder, writes Vikas Kumar, Faculty member, Azim Premji University, in Deccan Herald.
How students can recover lost learning caused due to COVID-19
While poor policy responses threaten to derail the recovery, there are exemplars to follow too. We would be failing our children twice, and for their lifetime, if we don’t get this right, writes Anurag Behar, CEO, Azim Premji Foundation, in Mint.
How students can be given opportunities to make our natural environment better and safe
Anju Das Manikpuri, in the Learning Curve magazine, initiates a discussion on how environmental issues can be made a part of the classroom dialogue.
Climate change: How the young will show us the way
If there is hope, it is with the next generation, who are not afraid to question our most basic assumptions about development, growth, and the environment, writes Harini Nagendra, Faculty member, Azim Premji University, in Deccan Herald.
How teachers can execute a high-quality Early Childhood Education (ECE) programme
The ECE Team (Sangareddy), Azim Premji Foundation, in Learning Curve, highlight key teaching practices leading to a good ECE programme.
What a study of children who lost parents to COVID-19, by Children of India Foundation, shows
A compassionate civil society needs the assistance of a willing state to ensure that these children have a future where the trauma is replaced with hope, write Thangaperumal Ponpandi, Mahima Sashank, Subrat Kumar Panda, Nazrul Haque, and Amalendu Jyotishi, in Scroll.