Category: September 2024

The Lifelong Learner: Learning to stay calm

Ramya Sriram
The Lifelong Learner is a monthly comic strip that illustrates how continuous learning is embedded in the human experience. The strip emphasizes that learning is not confined to just school: we learn from nature, relationships, conversations, listening, making mistakes, trying new things, and reflection. And of course, learning isn’t a one-way street, it’s a dynamic exchange between teacher and student, adult and child.

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Keep calm and seed the future

Bincy Mary George
According to Bincy Mary George, educators are like gardeners, who nurture the seeds of the future. They must cultivate not just success but a love for learning and resilience in their students.

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How we learn to speak

Rachna Priya
From babble to words, how do children learn to speak? How do they learn to speak their mother tongue? Can we use this knowledge to train children to acquire a second language? Communication is a very important aspect of being a human and with better understanding of how we learn to speak languages, we can improve the way we communicate.

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Who will win this game?

Smitha Prasad
These days you will find a variety of online games that will help you improve your language, logical abilities, mathematical skills, learn and play music. There are games that will also help you bust your stress and calm down. So they have to be good right? When anything becomes an addiction, then the bad of it outweighs the good.

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Our skewed obsessions

Pratima Pai
In India, we are obsessed with two things—the English language and fair skin. Despite awareness campaigns on skin colour and education policies that promote education in regional languages, our obsession remains. Unless we tackle this problem, we will not be able to progress as a nation.

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Finding your peace

Educators may not be on the front lines, but our classrooms are spaces where change begins. Editor Usha Raman writes about the role of teachers in fostering a more equitable world, even as we grapple with our own challenges.

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