Can Critical Pedagogy be a sustainable solution for sexual violence?
In 2012, the spirit of India was violently shaken by the heinous Delhi gang rape. People took to the streets demanding justice for the girl we named Nirbhaya - "the…
Education
Bridge the digital divide: Enable kids to have access to education in the new normal
The pandemic and the extended lockdown in India has hit the poor disproportionately hard. They have a higher risk of infection, significant loss of income and livelihoods, and immense learning…
The Coding Fad and the Coaching Industry
We are all aware of the dire consequences of subjecting young kids to intense academic pressure from an early age. In India, we have coaching institutes like FIITJEE and Resonance…
Assessing Students: Need For a Different Approach
"True education must correspond to the surrounding circumstances or it is not a healthy growth." - Mahatma Gandhi Reports and Surveys such as the Annual Status of Education Report…
Education is the Key to Building a Responsible and Empowered Nation
Education is a very powerful transformative force, provided we first transform education itself. India has always been a patriarchal, feudalistic society, and even now, it is. There are certain societal…
Coding or Crayoning for Small Kids?
“It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity” - Albert Einstein Coding is a short reference to the use of programming languages to provide lengthy sets…
Covid-19: Unveiling Digital Division in India
Amidst the Covid-19 pandemic, while getting acquainted with new digital modes of learning, it suddenly struck me hard on listening to the plight of a 15-year-old girl, living in a…
Quality in Higher Education, Role of Teachers and Challenge of Technology
Published as Introduction in Chowdhury A. and Alok John (Ed.). Excellence in Higher Education: Emerging Concerns and the Road Ahead. N Delhi: Rajesh Publications. 2020. Introduction Policy makers in India…
No Right To Education In The Pandemic?
“Education should be so revolutionized as to answer the wants of the poorest villager, instead of answering those of an imperial exploiter.” Mahatma Gandhi With Article 21A being introduced in…
Is education truly accessible: RTE Act falling short of expectations?
Why does not the nation move? First educate the nation. Even for social reforms, the first duty is to educate the people. - Swami Vivekananda Education helps develop the human…
Placing myself in the “academic loophole”?
After certain number of years of academic jargoning, learning and unlearning existing pedagogies, meandering through honky-dory lanes of rigorous materials prescribed in concerned “syllabi”, gnawing about a future of being…
Jamia is not merely a University but the Product of the National Movement
Co-Written by Badre Alam Khan & Tarique Anwar It is a historic moment for all of us that Jamia Millia Islamia, a ‘Lusty Child’ of the Non-cooperation, and the Khilafat movement based…
Panjab University Chandigarh-Would it lose its democratic structure from 1st November 2020?
Panjab University Chandigarh is in turmoil these days. The four-year term of its highest governing body The Senate is coming to an end on 31st October 2020. The last Senate…
Paradigm shift in pedagogy for school teachers in 2020: A call for mental health literacy?
Co-Written by Dr. Arathi P Rao, Dr. Sudhamshi Beeram, Dr. Parul Malik and Dr. Urvashi Priyadarshini The fight against the threats of COVID -19 pandemic has profoundly impacted almost all sectors…
Educating in times of systemic collapse
The economic and health crises which we are now experiencing form part of a more global systemic crisis, a consequence of the degeneration of our socio-economic order. Behind this degeneration…
ORTEF demands withdrawal of notification by Mass Education Department
Bhubaneswar: Odisha Right to Education Forum (ORTEF) has drawn the attention of Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik against closure of Government neighborhood schools in the name of rationalization. Showing its…
Do Not Burn Books, Stop People Reading Them!
'You may burn my books and the books of the best minds in Europe, but the ideas those books contain have passed through millions of channels and will go on.'"…
New possibilities in pedagogy: Some meandered musings
During this pandemic period, virtuality has taken over many facets of our life and especially education although it could be a temporary phase. But the academic world may be realizing…
Before teaching in English medium, first improve the shoddy text books
The discussion on the new education policy so far seems to have omitted the subject of text books. The quality of most text books so far is considered quite poor,…
English medium at school level: Rote Methods and Unscientific And Undemocratic Views
(This is concluding and Part-3 of an article. ) English medium at primary school level is certainly harmful, more so to the rural and poorer masses. That is a…
New Education Policy-2020 What’s in the Plate for Marginal Students?
by Kalu Naik and Ajit Kumar Lenka The much-awaited and ambitious ‘New Education Policy-2020’ rolled out by the NDA government under the chairmanship of former ISRO Chief K. Kasturirangan. This…
English medium at school level is harmful, more so to the rural and poorer students: Misleading theories of Kancha Ilaiah as seen by a Dalit-born Teacher
English medium at primary school level is certainly harmful, more so to the rural and poorer masses. That is a key lesson in my life’s experiences, both as a…
International Literacy Day 2020 and India’s Progress and Promises: An Introspection
Youths and children, the most demographic dividend of any country, are equally important for the society specifically as well as for the nation-building in general. They are the impregnable pillars…
Who Will Clean The Deep Rot of Indian Education System?
Co-Written by Peehu Pardeshi and Sandeep Pandey It is unusual for a bright young scholar like Amrendra Narayan, with a Ph.D. in Nuclear Physics from Mississippi State University, preceded and…
Worthless Degree & Jobless Graduates
In India Engineering as a career has attracted alot of students in a big way & large number of aspirants who burn the midnight oil in order to crack the…
New Education Policy: Duties Before Implementation
A friend of mine requested that I must contribute my suggestions sought by the government for the preparation of the New Education Policy (NEP). He reminded me about my…
Revamping education amidst COVID19 is an enormous task but feasible
Children cannot come to school. But schools can go home. CSOs working on education have urged the Odisha government to clarify mechanisms and modus-operandi of recently announced Shiksha Samparka scheme…
Factory Schools from Industrial Revolution to Modern Universities
How did factory schools develop? Why did factory school develop? What does factory schools do? What is the relevance of factory schools today? The answers to these questions come from…
Is NEP doing enough for Socially and Economically Disadvantaged Groups (SEDGs)?
NEP(2020) sets out high ideals for quality learning indicators for ensuring inclusive and equitable education keeping in view 2030 sustainable development goals. On the basis of robust consultation with different…
Telangana’s Dalit -Adivasi Scholars Struggle to Access Overseas Scholarships
Co-Written by Ashok Danavath and Sanjeev Gumpenapalli State governments and the Centre have been advancing scholarships to students from marginalised social groups so that they can pursue higher education abroad.…
Two Language formula –mother tongue and English medium best suits
Language policy in NEP is not suitable to present context. The overemphasis of Hindi and Sanskrit in proposed three-language policy, and withdrawal of English from primary level, in National Education…
Are Central Universities Modern-Day Agraharams?
Will we ever know the category-wise distribution of vice chancellors of the forty central universities located across the country? Thanks to the rules governing these universities, and those of the…
One Nation-One Education System: Should It Be Endorsed In India?
Education is the most powerful weapon to produce desirable changes in our society, and in order to drive the nation towards greater accomplishments, it is important to furnish quality education…
Online Classes Are Also Detrimental to Teachers and Neoliberalism Is to Be Blamed
I completed my primary education from a school that no more exists: Heroes Memorial Inter College. Situated in the capital of India’s most populous state, it was made in the…
Intellectuals as Lumpen Herds in the Universities
Once upon a time, universities were the places, where intellectuals, teachers and students as a community of learners used to reflect on everyday realities, learn the skills to use it…
Teachers in the e-box
It was only a matter of time that the fire started by Covid-19 would consume all traditional aspects of higher education teaching-learning and reach the doorstep of faculty training forcing…
Macaulay Putras And The New Education Policy: Shudras/Dalits/Adivasis Must Be Vigilant
The BJP Education Policy (BEP)2020 has been formalised with a Cabinet approval on July 30, 2020. It is drafted by Krishnaswamy Kasturirangan (79) the BJP’s Education Committee Chairman. He was…
CPI Opposes Privatisation and Commercialisation in New Education Policy
The National Secretariat of the Communist Party of India issued the following statement today (on July 30, 2020): The RSS-led NDA government has approved the New Education Policy (NEP). The…
Covid 19 exposes the way we treat our teachers
“Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition”, said Jacques Barzun. Rightly, did he point this out that ‘teaching’ is no more respected…
Neoliberalism and the Indian Educational Apparatus
India is currently reeling under the deleterious effects of decades of neoliberalism. It is increasingly becoming clear that the financial imperatives of neoliberalism have severely subverted social infrastructures which could…
Covid 19 and Furthering of Sectarian Agenda in Education
As Covid 19 has created havoc all rounds, the rulers of certain countries are using it to further intensify their set agendas. The democratic freedoms are being curtailed in certain…
The Politics Behind Changing Curriculum
“Every major change in the education structure needs to be understood as being intimately connected to a shift in power.” Stuart Hall Ages ago, Hall rightly thought of education as…
Why banning online classes for primary kids isn’t a good idea amidst Covid-19
In the midst of isolation crisis, when all educational institutions have been stirred to online teaching and up-scaled teachers’ digital skills through school-based training interventions, few states like Karnataka, Maharashtra,…
Psychological cost of Covid-19 on School Children
Since the first case of novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) was diagnosed in December 2019 in Hubei province of China, it has swept across the world and galvanized…
Jaganmohan Reddy’s Fight To Impart English Education In Government Schools Met With Resistance
Human equality is a major problem of India. Historically ownership of property created human inequality in all countries. Caste gradations in education also created an unbridgeable inequality in India. This…
Stop Humiliating Teachers
At their best teachers are everyday gods, standing at the entry to the world. If they are fair and good, they are possibly the most morally impressive adults. For a…
Lives In Education
Human history as cultural history We need to reform our teaching of history so that the emphasis will be placed on the gradual growth of human culture and knowledge, a…
Education in the time of Pandemic
The coronavirus pandemic is seen as a ‘useful crisis’ in which to transform the economy. Yet the university system has not received any such ‘stimulus’ of fresh ways of thinking…
Learning During The Pandemic
India has started Lockdown 4.0 with dismal numbers. We are already over 1 lakh cases, and as much as NITI Aayog would predict otherwise, the slump in cases is yet…
No Tea, Only Talk: The ‘Missing’ Interactions in the Digital Space
The unprecedented situation that the global community faces in the wake of Corona induced pandemic and the fear, panic, isolation and uncertainty that it has brought with it, has left…
Indian Education In Covid-19 Pandemic Lockdown
Amid an unprecedented corona virus crisis across the world, in India, a discussion about online education has now acquired paramount importance in terms of reliance on imparting knowledge virtually, compared…
Eklavya and Karna: An Understanding of Discrimination of Marginalised in Indian Education System
Mahabharata and Ramayana are considered as biggest epics (Mahakavya) of India are again in popular discussion with the repeat telecast of serials on Doordarshan amid Covid-19 crisis. Those who have…
COVID-19 and Online Teaching: Challenges for the Inclusion of Disabled Students in Higher Education.
Co-Written by Afaq Ahmad Mir & Zaraq Jahan It is a time when people from every section of the society are talking of a single discourse known globally as Covid-19.…
Education of the masses in times of Covid
With the schools and colleges being shut due to the covid-19 pandemic the respective ministry and departments have advised the institutions to ask teachers to keep engaging students academically through…
Education Crisis Must Not Be Forgotten In A Health Crisis
Special spittoons… “not to spit inside public buildings or outdoor spaces”…was never been the regular behavior of an American until the War on Tuberculosis impacted the community at the end…
The fact-check on RTE Implementation in Odisha
The recent news of the primary school of Bhulia village under Bhawanipatna Block in Kalahandi District of Odisha has raised the concern of many as the children of this schools…
The Quest For an Ideal Teacher
The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself. ~ Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton Ideal teacher could be somebody…
Higher Secondary Education in Malabar Districts of Kerala to Suffer
Academic year of 2019 - 20 begun in June – July. Multiple educational reforms are implemented by state and central governments in India. Kerala is inter alia a topper state…
Right to Education- Just a phrase for textbooks?
“Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.” - Kofi Annan According to the Right to Education act, "Every…
Is the Indian School Education system prepared for the future?
With the increasing pace of technological advances and globalisation rapidly taking over, India is all set to become the next hub for economic growth. Adding to this is a young…
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