The terms of reference pertain to: (i) Assessment of what exists (ii) Equal and high quality (education for all) (iii) Right to free and compulsory education (iv) Plan of action for setting up a common school system (v) Gandhiji’s ideas on basic education and ‘pace setting schools’ (vi) (...) >continue
In english language the question ’what is the time’ has got a simple answer. But if we omit the article ’the’ and ask ’what is time’ it opens up a Pandora’s Box. So is the case with science. Everybody uses the world science and its adjective scientific – scientific method, scientific thinking, (...) >continue
It all started with the nation wide (BJVJ) Bharat Jan Vigyan Jatha in 1987. Kalajatha requires extensive and detailed preparation with local organizing committees, with pre jatha ancillary activities, with book sales, with house to house fund collection etc.
Hundreds of thousands participated. (...) >continue
That there exists a deep gender divide will be agreed upon by everybody. But majority explain it away thus : “that is natural (i.e. biological and immutable), that it was always so and will be always so.” Many even argue that there is no reason to complain. The woman is as well off as the (...) >continue
A DAY BEGINS
I woke up suddenly. Yesterday I had gone to sleep quite late. There was no electricity and so could not put on the fan to drive the mosquitoes away. I was afraid that it was already late in the morning. Unless I go there before 6 O’ Clock I may not get any milk. Thank god, (...) >continue
The concept of work centered education enunciated in the NCF is basically different from Vocational Education as well as from Gandhiji’s Basic Education. Here the slogan is not ‘learn while you earn’, but ‘learn through doing’. There are not many schools or experiments based on this principle. (...) >continue