Edu Research & Insights

Snippets: - These snippets are compiled by CLF from a News paper article by Avijit Pathak. He is Professor of Sociology at Jawaharlal Nehru University. - He writes, society that values the significance of teaching knows that the task of a teacher is not merely to ‘cover’ the syllabus, and prepare students for the examination. A teacher engages in a delicate art of the transmission of social heritage — its knowledge systems, its aspirations, achievements and struggles — from one generation to another. And also teacher inspires and makes it possible for a young learner to tap her innate potential. - Society cannot evolve and citizenship cannot become mature and reflexive without good teachers — teachers who are not just ‘subject experts’ or ‘skill providers’, teachers who carry the lamp of wisdom, and enchant the young minds. - Education is not about information; a teacher is not a data bank. Education, in its true spirit, is essen...

Reflections from the lecture of Dr. S. Faiyaz Ahmed (Regional Director IGNOU). - Teaching is the most complex activity because each student in the class is different and the same method cannot be applied to all. -  Teachers' knowledge has to be fresh and one needs to regularly update and keep himself abreast of the latest. - Teachers should make documentation of their good works and practices, so that others can replicate that practice. - If you are from teaching community and have no love for the subject, and you are teaching, then you are not fit for teaching. Click to read full article from source:

Snippets : - I have been into this debate from a very long time. And I found this great article written by V Santha Kumar, professor at Azim Premji University, Bangalore. - My debate is not that english is a foreign language. It's because due to lack of strong transactional english our children are weak in concept formation/comprehension. - Teaching through child’s mother tongue/home language is internationally recognised as the most appropriate way of working with children particularly in the early years of concept formation, which will, in turn, helps strong academic foundation. Below are few highlights from the original  article. This article speaks from economic/developmental perspective. You might have an other angle of debate. - If a country’s industry and economy have grown organically and in a wholesome manner, then there is no need to study a foreign language by the majority. This kind of industrial and economic development would absorb all kinds of peop...

The idea basically being, that it's what's happening in kids' families and the kinds of conditions that they're able to purchase for their kids and the circumstances that they're able to provide for their kids over the long haul that really matter in. When the study looked at the low-income kids in the sample who were in private schools, it didn't see any advantage to private education there either. Click to read from source: