संसार में शिक्षा के क्षेत्र में कुछ नवीन प्रयोग हुए हैं जिन्होंने शिक्षण-अधिगम प्रक्रिया की हमारी समझ को आकार दिया है और हमें अनेक समस्याओं से निपटने के व्यावहारिक तरीके प्रदान किए हैं। देश और दुनियां में शिक्षा के इन सवालों को लेकर कई जगह नए, प्रायोगिक और अद्भुत काम हुए हैं और हो रहे हैं. इस लेख श्रृंखला में मेरी कोशिश है कि ऐसे कमाल के स्कूलों के बारे में अपने साथियों को कुछ बता सकूं.
Month: January 2023
Can we be democratic and unfair at the same time? A teacher’s reflections on Republic as Democracy
Words are shifting sand of meanings. This article explores the word Republic to unravel the associated meanings and understand the dynamic nature and evolution of meanings of republic.
जंगल क्या होता है?
यह चौथी कक्षा की एक क्लास रिपोर्ट है. इस लेख में जब बच्चों को ज्ञान निर्माण की स्वतंत्रता होती है तो वे कितने मौलिक ढंग से सोच सकते हैं इसकी एक झलक मिलेगी. बच्चों के मन से गलती करने का डर निकल जाए तो ऐसे सवाल सामने आते हैं जो शिक्षण को अदभुत ढंग से समृद्ध कर देते हैं.
Personalised learning: an enriched instructional design
When teachers step aside, students step up. This article discusses the idea of Personalized Learning as a way to make learning a self-directed process by provide each child an opportunity to learn their own preferred way, with their convenient pace and place. It is primarily giving agency to the learner. Emergence of digital technology has given it a fillip. But creating personalised learning is possible with or without technology.
How students learn English as second language efficiently?
How do children learn language? Many theories exist to explain the acquisition of language by children. what are the ways of learning second language, especially English? This article presents a broad brush review of different approaches and talks about presentation-practice-production (PPP) and Task-based language teaching (TBLT).
An invitation to Historical Inquiry: History as an intimate experience
Does a child understand the nuances of numerical values as we teach history? It is tough to conceptualise that 100 elephants are not the same as 100 mustard seeds, which has no connection with 100 days or 100 dry leaves lying in a garden at a distance of 100 meters. What does it mean to tell a ten-year-old child to say 100 years ago, let alone 1 million years?This article puts forth a concrete proposal of teaching history starting from the present. It argues that history is not the past. Past is gone. History is an attempt to reconstruct the past with the clues available in the present.
Did we make the most of digital opportunity?
Pandemic forced an opportunity of technological infusion in education. Rather than focusing on pedagogical priorities to guide the decisions about which tool to use for achieving specific goals of a lesson, most of the teacher’s attention goes to managing the ‘digital monster’, the adoption of online tools and platforms. This article discusses the importance of teacher focus to develop abilities to create contextual resources and/or develop abilities to use, modify, or adapt the plethora of existing resource effectively?
India: With what fibre is this woven?
Fabric is an all encompassing term. fabric we wear. there is a fabric nations and societies are woven as. it has shaped the history of freedom struggle of India. This article is a multi-disciplinary exploration of fabric, handloom and the way it shaped our history and culture.
डिजिटल टेक्नोलॉजी और शिक्षण का भविष्य
डिजिटल माध्यमों का उपयोग करने वाले शिक्षकों के लिए शिक्षण विधि के अनेक आयाम खुल जाते हैं, वे विविध प्रकार के शिक्षण विधि की संभावनाओं से युक्त हो जाते हैं. यह लेख इस नए समय, नई दुनिया में नए प्रकार के डिजिटल शिक्षण का अभ्युदय शिक्षकों को स्वयं को एक नए अवतार में ढालने की जरूरत को रेखांकित करता है.
The marvel of language and Emergent Literacy perspective
Letters are symbols with no meaning by themselves. How do they combine to acquire infinite variety of expressions and allow us to disclose our secret thoughts and emotions? Drawing lessons from the research in historical linguistics and those of meaning-making, thinking, and reasoning, this article explores the idea of emergent literacy. It also draws lessons for teachers to provide ways of authentic scaffold for learning the language of instruction.