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Book Review | Tata’s Leadership Experiment: The story of the Tata Administrative Service (TAS)
Even as the authors enjoy telling the story, they remain objective, calling out things that did not go well and the reasons why TAS, while being a great experiment, fell short of what might have been possible, writes S Giridhar in The Hindu Business Line.
Why do we not see that our cities have come up around rivers?
There is severe stress on our rivers when we treat them like a resource that can be exploited instead of protecting them, reiterates Kunal Sharma, faculty member, Azim Premji University, in conversation with Jashvitha Dhagey, in Question of Cities.
Careers in the education field
Rajashree S, in Deccan Herald, highlights how there is still a need to develop people to address the challenges that the education sector currently faces, even though there have been several reforms to revive various aspects of the sector.
How teachers can help cultivate eco-consciousness in children
Nandini Shetty, in the Learning Curve magazine, shares activities that can help cultivate different scientific skills in children, thus allowing them to construct knowledge through self-experience.
Resolving the scarcity of quality educational supplementary books through the Pitara initiative
Manoj Nigam, in the Learning Curve magazine, explains how Pitara could provide quality books and a better resource of teaching-learning materials (TLMs) to readers at a much lower cost.
NEP 2020: Why National Curriculum Framework for Foundational Stage (NCF-FS) is important
NCF-FS is an important dimension in the implementation of the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020, and is likely to have a deep impact on the education and overall well-being of children, says Anurag Behar, CEO, Azim Premji Foundation, in Mint.
Eight forms of leadership tyranny people encounter
One’s success lies in negotiating ambiguities, finding common shared spaces, seeking mature compromises, and collaborating thoughtfully, writes Sudheesh Venkatesh, in Financial Express.
Why it is time to redefine worship and festivities
After two years of an unnatural way of life, surrounded by tales of doom and gloom, we are right to celebrate. But how much more pollution can an already stressed city (Bengaluru) take, asks Harini Nagendra, faculty member, Azim Premji University, in Deccan Herald.
How Sangh Parivar is stamping its mark on Indian philately
The promotion of cultural nationalism and national unity are among the priorities of Parivar, highlights Vikas Kumar, Faculty member, Azim Premji University, in Frontline.
How environmental awareness can be integrated with academic subjects
Salai Selvam and Shankar K, in the Learning Curve magazine, describe how the teaching-learning process becomes more effective when we integrate nature-based experiences along with languages and maths, to increase ecological consciousness.
Science Education: Why do some organisms regenerate, while others don’t?
Sravanti Uppaluri and Harshitha Kanchamreddy, in the i wonder magazine, explain why it may be useful to study regeneration in nature, apart from it being an awe-inspiring process.
How one can learn history outside the classroom
Internships, volunteering, and even personal projects provide an independent view of the world, writes Nandan Kaushik in the Learning Curve magazine.
How earnest leaders and administrators can make a significant difference to the lives of people
Anurag Behar, CEO, Azim Premji Foundation, in Mint, highlights that there are people who are driven by a real sense of mission to do good, and how a sense of professionalism is often sufficient to make a genuine difference.
Why feeling respected at a workplace matters
When a leader is attentive, demonstrates empathy, and cultivates a collegial atmosphere, it constitutes ‘respect’, writes S Giridhar in The Hindu Business Line.
Why India’s push towards translation has slowed down
Unless we start respecting the fact that knowledge actually is best in multiple languages, there will be no support for writing in Indian languages, says Hridaykant Dewan, in a conversation with Varsha Gowda, in Deccan Herald.
How summer breaks are part of the informal learning space for children
Learnings from informal spaces have a value for life and is a part of an unendingly memorable childhood, writes Prakash Chandra Gautam in the Learning Curve magazine.
Tree of life: The powerful mathematical idea at the heart of evolution
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.
Science Education: How to make a simple low-cost potometer to encourage student experimentation
Kishore Panwar, in the i wonder magazine, illustrates how making a potometer using plastic bottles and tubes makes it easier for students to use these devices for experiments around transpiration.
How students can explore nature through the study of birds
Sruthi P K, in the Learning Curve magazine, shares highlights and insights from a summer camp that offered a platform to begin birdwatching with students at Dhamtari, Chattisgarh.
How a programme contributed to improving learning capabilities of children of migrant labour
Shobha L Kavoori and Shubha H K, in the Learning Curve magazine, share their experiences from Education for Children of Migrant Labour (ECML) programme, initiated by Azim Premji Foundation in 2007.
Drawing parallels between prudent investing and career planning
Like a batsman playing Test cricket, focus on the long-term average while assessing investments and careers, writes Sudheesh Venkatesh, Chief Communications Officer and Managing Editor, Azim Premji Foundation, in Financial Express.
How the Rajiv Gandhi Kisan Nyay Yojna is changing the lives of farmers in Chhattisgarh
Other states should take a lesson from the efficiency of this policy and the Chhattisgarh model, writes Saurabh Raj, Student, Azim Premji University, in The Times of India.
False dichotomies of education that we must strive to overcome
Good education requires not dichotomies, but a consistent endeavour to balance and achieve complementary ends, both in theory and in practice, writes Anurag Behar, CEO, Azim Premji Foundation, in Mint.
How educators can make the classroom teaching of soil more informative, creative, and interactive
Santosh Kumar, in the i wonder… magazine, records the voices of some urban and rural students in informal discussions about soil. He highlights the experiences that shape their understanding of soil and what they would like to learn about it.
Do supply chains characterise the state of a nation?
Ashutosh Tosaria, member, Azim Premji Foundation, in Deccan Herald, compares the 10-minute delivery of products in cities and the breakdown of sanitary pad distribution to government schools and anganwadi centres during the COVID-19 pandemic, to highlight how disjoined our lives are.
How teachers can develop narrative strength to make science more engaging for students
Randy Olson, in the i wonder magazine, illustrates how one can get started with a story using the universal narrative template called ABT (And, But, Therefore).
How Gramin Shiksha Kendra (GSK) works to develop functional competency in English
Ekta Dhankar, Jyotsna Lall, Shipra Suneja, and Vardhna Puri, share their experience of teaching English to first-generation learners in rural Rajasthan, in the Learning Curve magazine, while highlighting the major outcomes of the programme.
Science Education: Physics for closeted Aristotelians
Nitish Sehgal, in the i wonder… magazine, explores how exercises requiring students to verbalise or pictorially depict their understanding of a particular phenomenon may help teachers understand the specific nature of their folk theories.
How gender stereotypes in villages promote prejudice that may lead to an individual’s isolation within the community
Ananya Vasishtha, Student, MA Public Policy and Governance, Azim Premji University, in The Pioneer, explains how such stereotypes are perceived differently in more archaic forms in the rural areas, while women there lack popular voice.
Teacher Education: Why using students’ existing knowledge to build new learning is helpful
Keeping existing knowledge as a base for building up new knowledge helps in engaging every child in the learning process, writes Pompa in the Learning Curve magazine.