Usha Raman
We live in confusing times. While there’s no doubt that life is better on some counts (higher lifespan, more literacy, widening opportunities, more choice), it’s worse on others (climate change, socio-economic inequality, war). It’s hard to know who is responsible and how things can change.
Sayali Tamane
Let your students learn civics by watching movies and making a few themselves.
Ankitha Cheerakathil
School is a microcosm of the society. Training children while at school to work together and take decisions for the common good will help them participate responsibly in the society tomorrow. School Participatory Budgeting is an exercise that helps teachers achieve this.
Arundhati Tulpule
As the better-off citizens we have to be sensitized to the conditions and problems of those less privileged than us, only then can an equal society be truly achieved. Play this game with your students to help them understand why some of us need protective discrimination and advantages.
Simran Sachdeva
At 18 you are given the right to vote. Exciting experience definitely, but it is also an experience that young citizens are unprepared for. With no knowledge of what the election process involves, what their role is, they cast their first vote. In order to prepare young children to turn into thinking voters the Election Commission of India is starting Electoral Literacy Clubs in schools.
Alex M. George
Civics is a living subject. Students need to constantly engage with it in order to understand the nuances of living responsibly in a democracy. Unfortunately our textbooks treat this subject as static knowledge that can simply be imparted through the text. We need to re-imagine civics education if we want active civic engagement in our societies.
Joel Westheimer
Why do we shy away from discussing politics in the classroom? When politics, political parties and their strategies are such a big part of democratic functioning of a government shouldn’t we be encouraging political discussions in the classroom? If we want politically aware citizens, who can participate in their democracies, this is a change that we must make to our pedagogy.
Neha Pradhan Arora
Getting children to actively participate in community engagement programmes is a wonderful way to impart the knowledge of civics in children. Community engagement programmes call on children to scan the problems in their communities and use their knowledge of the subject to help solve problems such as a drainage system, drinking water, cleanliness , etc. When children see the change their involvement brings their learning is all that much more.
Sonal Iyer and Neha Yadav
Every job requires you to undergo some kind of training to acquire the skills and knowledge necessary to do the job well. Being responsible citizens of our country is also a job and a job that we have to do well. Therefore it is necessary that we train our children in the area of being good citizens of this country.
Swapni Shah
To sustain a democracy, its citizens need to have a certain skillset, attitude, knowledge and vaule. The best way to inculcate these is to let children confront real-life problems and learn in the process of finding solutions.
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