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COP27: Why Loss and Damage (L&D) should be the third pillar of climate action
Countries must initiate a formal process of creating an L&D fund that would assist the countries most vulnerable to climate change in relief and rehabilitation, write K C Adaina and Kedar Kulkarni, faculty members, Azim Premji University, in Deccan Herald.
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Social sector beckons
Nazrul Haque, in Deccan Herald, highlights how the social sector holds the magic combination of quality work, job satisfaction, and a sense of fulfillment. For many, this is an ideal mix of passion and profession.
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Riemann Hypothesis: What mathematician Yitang Zhang’s new paper means and why we should care
The Riemann hypothesis is often considered the most important unsolved problem in pure mathematics today. Mohan R, Faculty member, Azim Premji University, in The Wire Science, presents an exposition of the problem.
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Teacher Education: How teachers can work on improving students’ health in schools
Good health and nutrition can promote learning and ensure that the student is ‘present, ready, and able to learn’, a foundational requirement for achieving India’s goal of Education for All, writes Shreelata Rao Seshadri in the Learning Curve magazine.
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How narratives of river-human entanglement can open up new ways in the study of life, in river landscapes
Namrata Sharma, student intern, Azim Premji University, in Guwahati Times, highlights how people from the Miyah community, living in the flood-prone regions of Assam, have devised various ways to adapt to the instability of rivers — a lifestyle as fluid as the Brahmaputra.
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Rivers of Life: How villagers joined hands to save Rushikulya river, Odisha
A Lalitha and Rajama, student interns at Azim Premji University, share the story of their villages in Ganjam district, Odisha, with Sanika Athawale, in Times of India, to show how collective action saved the river system.
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Why we should not underestimate the value of language familiarity
Anurag Behar, CEO, Azim Premji Foundation, in Mint, describes the approach the National Curriculum Framework for Foundational Stage (NCF-FS) takes to the learning of reading and writing — often called basic or foundational literacy.
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Machines on the river bed: A case study of Teesta and Rongyong
Indiscriminate mining is choking parts of the Teesta and Rongyong in Sikkim, writes Pema Yangden, a student intern at Azim Premji University, in Sikkim Chronicle.
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Rivers of Life: An exhibition where children learn river conservation from personal stories
More than 300 persons worked for six months to create and curate the event, says Kunal Sharma, Faculty member, Azim Premji University, in conversation with Chiranjeevi Kulkarni, in Deccan Herald.
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Explore 70 rivers at Rivers of Life festival, an initiative by Azim Premji University
Apart from Ganges, Brahmaputra, and Cauvery rivers, the Rivers of Life festival has also captured details of lesser-known but equally important rivers such as Ayad (Udaipur, Rajasthan), Arpa (Bilaspur, Chhattisgarh) and Khad (Kangra, Himachal Pradesh).
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.