Pawan Pagaria
There is no one way of approaching design in education and Pawan Pagaria has had his fair share of experiments with an attempt to make it work. Frameworks, workshops, games, textbooks, he has tried it all. In this contribution, we ask him to share how he applies design to crack design in education and how far he has come.
Kiran Bir Sethi
What does it take to ‘design’ a school, curriculum, business and society? We take a look at the journey of designer and educator Kiran Bir Sethi and understand her position on design in education and the impetus for founding initiatives like Design for Change. Her journey, with design as a primary vehicle, across expanding domains of creative practice helps us understand design as a social project. This piece also looks at how and why design permeates into the day-to-day of The Riverside School she set up in Ahmedabad and what her advice is for schools that want to facilitate design in education.
Kriti Sood has pioneered what it means to co-develop a curriculum with teachers. In this piece we invite her to share her experiences doing the same in different settings. As a curator, she has a knack for pairing experts with different backgrounds to create something new. Her approach to design in education is boutique and mindful, and we hope this contribution will show our readers how small things can lead to a big impact.
Srishti has been working as a Knowledge Partner with the Delhi government to implement a visual arts curriculum from grades 9-12. In this piece we evoke the government school classroom – the practical challenges of that ecosystem, the irony of implementing design learning in schools and the creative solutions that triumph across it.
Anju Dhawan
Staying calm and positive in today’s chaotic world is no easy feat, but it’s a skill worth developing. Anju Dhawan writes about practices like meditation and nature walks for mindful mornings.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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