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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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. 

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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. 

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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. 

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. 

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.