Shiv Visvanathan
Is Gandhi relevant today? Relevance is not the issue here at all, it is how Gandhi pushes one to be relevant in today’s world. He may not take up much space in the school text books but he continues to haunt us — in the way he teaches us, in the way he constantly reinvented himself. Remember to read up this author’s interesting dialogue with Gandhi.
Sushama Sharma
Anand Niketan in Sewagram is an excellent example of Gandhi’s ideas of education being practiced with sincerity and successfully. The principles of nai talim have been implemented to the extent possible and the teachers have found it workable and effective too. Take a glimpse into this school’s activities.
Nyla Coelho
The current times that we live in require an education that is transformative, one that sees beyond the curriculum, prescriptive text books, class sizes etc. We need an education that is capable of building a relationship between the learner and the teacher. This can happen only if we begin to draw deeply from the vision that Gandhi presented to the nation.
Nyla Coelho
The current times that we live in require an education that is transformative, one that sees beyond the curriculum, prescriptive text books, class sizes etc. We need an education that is capable of building a relationship between the learner and the teacher. This can happen only if we begin to draw deeply from the vision that Gandhi presented to the nation.
Rohit Dhankar
In this article the author focuses on the ideal of citizenship in the Wardha scheme of education. This scheme is drawn from the text that finds a place in the Report of the Zakir Hussain Committee. The five-fold ideal of the society and citizenship is powerful and clear and can become the basis for aims and ideals of education in any democratic society.
G Gautama
The humble takli sings a song that says, ‘you are one, and spin but one yarn, one weak link. Together there is great strength! Do your bit, spin your yarn, and offer it to the common pool…. and see what can happen.’ The takli sings a song of hope and possibility. Can the humble takli energise people and bring consciousness of the community into their lives?
Rajan Venkatesh
The truth of Gandhi’s assertions can be seen if one takes that leap of faith and experiments in small ways in his or her school. The learning can happen in several ways–through production activities, of ‘subject’ matters being understood using the local environment as the medium and of the child’s positive emotional and intellectual development.
Margaret Hepworth
How can teachers teach young people the essence of Gandhi? Three of Gandhi’s principles are needed for today’s education scene–that of non-violence, satyagraha and taking action. All teachers need to do is to encourage this movement of non-violence to grow and this way they will be helping youngsters to engage in new ways with the world.
Satya Teertha, P Usha Rani, and Dr. P Sudhakar
This article introduces teachers and readers to a new strategy that realises the spirit of nai talim. An experiment by the Haritha Ecological Institute, Khammam, Telangana, using locally renewable resources in day to day activities illustrates several important concepts that are part of the mainstream curriculum. All the productive works that have been tried out have been found to be rich with all the essential ingredients of child pedagogy: fun, useful, practical and with great scope for critical observation and learning.
Sujit Sinha and Nazrul Haque
Gandhi’s charkha was made of bamboo. This article explains how bamboo can be used in school education especially in the rural areas to realise Gandhi’s vision of self- sufficient, self-governing village communities.
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