Simran Luthra
John Holt, a thinker who lived and propagated his ideas in the 1960s and 70s, is as relevant today as he was back then. Although Holt was a strong critic of the mainstream schooling system and was someone who promoted homeschooling, teachers of all kinds will do well to engage with him because of his deep knowledge of children. Reading Holt will help us reorient ourselves to the child and work to bring about reforms in the existing system.

Shrijita Sengupta
John Dewey is hailed as one of the finest thinkers in the field of education, and yet all these decades later his ideas of pragmatism and democratic education remain absent from mainstream schools. With the concept of self-directed learning gaining popularity once again, it is perhaps time that we revisited Dewey and explored how to implement his ideas in mass education.

G Gautama
J Krishnamurti is one of India’s foremost thinkers, whose ideas on education led to the establishment of several schools where the child is at the centre of learning. This article offers us glimpses of the renowned thinker’s vision of education which primarily aimed at producing complete, free and critically thinking individuals.

Aditi Mathur and Ratnesh Mathur
Learning is a natural activity and not something that happens only within the four walls of a classroom. If we believe learning happens only in school, then we are drastically limiting the meaning of the word. Let us allow our children to choose their own teachers and topics of learning and in doing so let us give them the true experience of learning.

Aditi Mathur and Ratnesh Mathur
Learning is a natural activity and not something that happens only within the four walls of a classroom. If we believe learning happens only in school, then we are drastically limiting the meaning of the word. Let us allow our children to choose their own teachers and topics of learning and in doing so let us give them the true experience of learning.

Hema Jain
A simple question from her young son led this author and her family to the path of homeschooling. Ten years later, the family is leading a much richer life, living and learning together. They offer us a peek into their homeschooling journey.

Seetha Anand
Head, heart and hands – a concept that is familiar to all those who know about Waldorf education. This extremely child-friendly system asks for high levels of commitment from its teachers who invest themselves in producing critically thinking, sensitive and free spirited individuals.

Subha Das Mollick
Everybody loves a good story and if it is in the form of moving images, the joy doubles. In India, the idea of using popular media to teach came into being in the 1980s. Today with digital technology at its peak, teachers have the choice of not just using educational programmes to teach, but also make their own visual teaching-learning materials and use popular movies to instruct students in science, math, history and civics.

Geeta Dharmarajan
Stories excite listeners, invoke their senses and make them attentive and alert. Stories help relate, provide meaning and develop the imagination. Aren’t stories then the best medium to teach little children? How did this idea of using stories to teach develop? What is StoryPedagogy?

Meenakshi Umesh
Learning by doing, working in harmony with nature, using their hands, gaining knowledge from the everyday, this is how children at Puvidham Learning Centre seek wisdom. An amalgamation of ideas by several renowned thinkers and educators, the only thing that the author was sure of when she started the Centre was that it would not be anything like her experience of the mainstream school.