How can the experience of making a simple pinhole camera with inexpensive materials help our students think more creatively and critically about light? 

How can conversations around an athlete’s record-breaking sprint actively engage our students in learning concepts around linear motion?

What do our students learn about the practice of science when we encourage them to write the biographies of scientists who appear in their textbook? 

How do we provide spaces for our students to make and manipulate new materials from old discarded or inexpensive material? 

Read this issue to explore these and many other such teaching-learning experiences in middle-stage science and preparatory stage EVS. 

Science education literature states that fostering students’ and teachers’ knowledge of NOS has shifted from being a desirable goal to an essential one. This article focuses on the development of NOS conceptions among MA Education students. To develop those conceptions, the researcher designed various learning activities in the context of ​‘research of history on DNA’. Seven students were observed and audiotaped while working in groups in this classroom qualitative study. Before the intervention, pre-test on ​‘views on science’- Chen (2006) and group discussions held with participants indicated that their NOS conceptions were basic. After 7 sessions, a post-test was administered to students asking to justify NOS conceptions. These conceptions: scientifc knowledge is tentative, laws are generalisations or universal relationships, theories are inferred explanations of nature; and that science is empirically based, socio-culturally embedded, and creative. Classroom discourses and responses to a post-test indicated that participants justifed some NOS conceptions very well and some not so very well. It also argues that HOS ofers potential for improved learning of NOS.

The fourth edition of the Mountains of Life newsletter celebrates International Mountain Day, focussing on sustainable mountain solutions through innovation, adaptation, and youth engagement. The newsletter includes the highlights of the Mountains of Life festival, held at our Bengaluru campus from 13 – 26 November 2024. We also feature inspiring stories from interns, and acknowledge the efforts of mountain enthusiasts, especially the youth, alongside select contributions from readers. Thank you for your continued support — happy reading!

The Rushikulya beach in eastern India is considered to be an important rookery (nesting site) for a species of migratory marine turtle, the olive ridleys Lepidochelys olivacea, because it is one of a handful of sites around the world where an arribada or mass-nesting event occurs. During an arribada, thousands of ridleys nest simultaneously over a small section of the beach, and several weeks later, millions of hatchlings emerge from these nests and crawl into the sea. Given the uniqueness of this phenomenon, conservation programmes have emphasised the monitoring and protection of ridleys during an arribada. In Rushikulya, this involves an assemblage of multiple actors, including biologists, their local assistants, and staff of the Odisha Forest Department. In this article, I use the concept of ontological choreography, drawn from multispecies scholarship, to focus attention on how members of this assemblage bring together different ontological orders, mainly nature and the individual self, to protect the ridleys. Further, I use this concept to direct attention to the hybrid nature of conservation practice — that it can simultaneously be affective, embodied, performative, sensory and technical. Overall, this article demonstrates how multispecies approaches can enrich social studies of conservation.

Authors:

Madhuri Ramesh

पाठशाला भीतर और बाहर का 22वाँ अंक ​‘समावेशी शिक्षा विशेषांक’ है। समावेशन शब्द एकबारगी विशेष दक्षता वाले बच्चों के बारे में ध्वनित होता मालूम होता है। लेकिन इसकी परतों को खोलने पर समझ में आता है कि इसमें विशेष दक्षता वाले बच्चों की बात तो निश्चित तौर पर है ही, साथ ही बात है अलग-अलग सामाजिक‑आर्थिक और सांस्कृतिक परिवेश के विविध मनोभावों वाले वंचित समुदाय के बच्चों की शिक्षा और संसाधनों के बारे में भी। संवैधानिक मूल्यों में रचे बसे स्नेह और सम्मान जैसे मानवीय मूल्य हर बच्चे के लिए ज़रूरी हैं। 

इस अंक में आप पढ़ेंगे कि शिक्षक शिक्षा में समावेशन को लेकर किस तरह की योजनाएँ हैं; किस तरह एक विशेष विद्यालय को समावेशी विद्यालय बनाया जा सका; और कलाओं, खेलों, संगीत, आदि के ज़रिए किस तरह समावेशन को दस्तावेज़ों से निकालकर हक़ीक़त में उतारा गया। 

आप इस अंक में कुछ स्थाई स्तम्भ भी पढ़ेंगे जिनमें ​‘उम्मीद जगाते शिक्षक’ की कहानी है, ​‘किताबों से दोस्ती’ में जानेंगे 3 सुन्दर किताबों के बारे में, और ​‘आइए, करके देखें’ में समावेशन पर आधारित ऐसी गतिविधियाँ जिन्हें आसानी से कराया जा सकता है। इनके साथ ​‘शिक्षकों की डायरी’ स्तम्भ में आप पढ़ेंगे शिक्षकों के काम,  उनकी बातें,  उनके अनुभव।

Employment projection, particularly at the micro or sectoral level, is considered as a useful tool for economic planners and policymakers to have a better understanding of future trends and growth, and accordingly, the policies and planning could be designed for the supply side of the labour market. 

This study finds that there is a lack of literature in the recent past on the above issue in the context of India, hence in this paper, we have tried to estimate employment numbers for seven broad economic sectors for the period 2024 – 25 to 2030 – 31. The study uses the ​“Top-down” approach to estimate and project the employment numbers by using the employment-output elasticities and forecasted values of growth rates of gross value added (GVA) at the sectoral level. 

Three broad conclusions have been drawn from the employment estimates. First, the agriculture and allied sector continued to be the dominant force in creating employment opportunities till 2030 – 31, however, a surge of employment in the sector in recent years may unlikely continue in the future. Second, the slowing down of economic activities in services sector is expected to dent high employment growth prospects in the sector. Third, a phenomenal rise of employment in industry particularly in manufacturing sector in recent years augurs well for the economy which is expected to remain buoyant in the medium term as well