Dr Jyoti Raina
@jyoti-raina
Dr Jyoti teaches at the Department of Elementary Education, Gargi College, Delhi University. As part of her pedagogy, Dr Jyoti encourages her students to publish articles in the journal.
Why schools should encourage peer learning
Despite tremendous possibilities, peer learning is not exploited enough for classroom teaching-learning experience.
Learning from nature: Rabindranath Tagore’s vision
To Rabindranath Tagore, nature was essential to not only experience the unity of truth in this world but also to children’s wholesome development.
Five educators on education
This essay summarizes the educational philosophies of five great educators that are often studied in the pre-service teacher education programme.
Krishnamurti on Quietude and Education
Quietude alone offers possibilities of the right kind of education that humanize young children’s lives in their educational journeys.
Education in post-colonial societies and Paulo Freire’s insights
Paulo Freire’s conceptualization of school education 50 years ago is relevant even today in post colonial societies, calling for a problem-posing method of education that includes perspectives of the marginalized.
Evaluating Early Childhood Education in National Education Policy 2020
While the NEP 2020 brings the much needed attention to early childhood education, and aspires to make India’s education system the best, there are some pitfalls on how its could treat diverse children at a tender age of three, in a homogenous manner.
The Child and the Curriculum: Two Ends of the Educational Process
Child and Curriculum are the two ends of school education as rethought by John Dewey
Journey Inwards with Jiddu Krishnamurti, Rabindranath Tagore and Avijit Pathak
This personal essay walks a lane inwards with three great educationists. The vision of the three men provokes an understanding of what is wrong with prevailing schooling practices. Education involves a search within. In this exploratory quest the three educational philosophers Jiddu Krishnamurti, Rabindranath Tagore and Avijit Pathak have walked the road less traveled. Walking…
Advertising and its consequences on children
Advertisements are inherently promotional in nature and seek to create artificial needs in order to bait the consumer. The ‘complete pleasure with least effort’ comfort associated with the two food product advertisements analyzed above reflects how attractive presentation restricts viewers from pausing to examine whether the consumption is necessary at all.
Developing self-expression: Education programme
My undergraduate research project was thus not merely an academic curricular task but an introspective four-year personal journey to express myself.
A Philosophical Gaze on School Curriculum
A curriculum must connect with the student in a deeply personal way. Life, existence and school curriculum can’t be separate from each other.
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