tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-85449090546232383172012-02-01T14:12:55.987+05:30"The teacher who is indeed wise, does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom, but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind." - Kahlil GibranSamanvaya Indiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14602383119628695441noreply@blogger.comBlogger201100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8544909054623238317.post-76833194904745231492009-05-27T16:44:00.004+05:302009-05-27T17:00:12.987+05:30

The earlier post had mentioned a non-existent dichotomy between the academic and non-academic, and how the hand can be intellectual. At Samanvaya we have started looking more deeply into Nai Talim (New Education), an educational framework initiated and promoted by Gandhiji and coworkers and active until the late 1960s, under which "working with hands" is one of the primary principles. The

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“Sensing Nature Through Arts”Summer Camp for children aged 8 – 12 years, 4th – 9th May 2009A Review-ReportKalakshetra Foundation and The Aseema Trust jointly conducted a six day summer camp, “Sensing nature through arts” for children aged 8 to 12 years. The camp activities were spinning and weaving on a frame, printing from nature and paper making, clay work, kolams and pot decoration, and

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Seminar on Raising Happy and Peaceful children, 2nd May 2009The theme for the seminar was “Raising Happy and Peaceful children”. Weighty indeed! Everyone in the group had to contend with these two questions, posed by one of the presenters – Can I make anyone happy? Or Can I make anyone unhappy? And I think we all in our own ways kept reaching the same conclusion from different points that

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Announcing the Harmony centre for Little Learners - a space and process based on the philosophy of Nai Taleem (New or Basic Education), the educational framework and policy initiated and promoted by Mahatma Gandhipriya nagesh

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Original Post: http://www.samanvaya.com/main/learning.htmlThis article was first written as an explorative, introductary write-up for further discussion in a seminar on Education in October 2002 and has been edited further in March 2009. It briefly looks at what is Education, the aims of education and means of achieving the same. - Priya, April 09 Man is a learning species. Education,

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The following is an extract from an article by the Rajya Sabha member and daughter of the CM, Kanimozhi Karunanidhi. She raises an important point about the management of schools placing restrictions on the students to practice their religious beliefs. It is significant that someone from the Dravidian Political movement is raising this question too. I think this is worth discussing. Recently,

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PaataShaala Guest Lecture – Nai Talim, by Shiv Dutt Mishra, Nai Talim Samiti Date: 2nd September 2008 Participants:Prof. Swaminathan, retired IIT Delhi Professor, HistorianBalakailasam, DirectorSashikant, DirectorArvind, ProfessorRajsri, Teacher, SevagramRavitha Bhatia, TeacherUday Meghani, Activist / Social workerChitra Nagesh, Freelance ResearcherKrishnan, Graphic

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Participants: Vijaya, Alexander, Ranjan De, Amukta Mahapatra, Dr. L.S. Saraswathi, Reineke, Melinda, Subha, Atmapraana Amba, Nishkaamya Praana, Nidosha Praana, Ram, Priya Note: Amukta joined the Paatashaala session to talk about how ABL works, the philosophy and methods of ABL and how they developed it. A summary of Ms. Amukta Mahapatra’s talk and discussionsAmukta started the

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"We are changing the system, but we are also resisting the change"- Ranjan De, 12th January 2008, Paatashaala session on ABL

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Participants: Sathyamoorthy, Nithiyanandam, Chitra Nagesh, Vidhyalakshmi, Ramasubramanian, Priya Note: Amukta Mahapatra could not make it to this Paatashaala session, and the predetermined agenda (sharing of experience by Amukta) for this gathering had to be postponed. The group had a rather free flowing dialogue on learning, triggered off by Ram asking each individual to share his / her

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“There are neither ready-made problems nor ready-made solutions, so we have to go with new and different” – Ram “We should not be looking at interlinking of rivers, but interlinking of subjects – everything is interlinked – science, maths, geography… “ – Ranjan De “Just because some people are able to come out of oppression due to a system, doesn’t mean that the said system cannot be

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Participants: Chitra Nagesh, Sumitra, Ranjan De, Prasanna, Karuna, Sangeetha, Priya, Ram, Akila, Shuba, Giridhar, Dr. SaraswathiNote: The two primary areas for this session were social sciences textbook review by Chitra Nagesh and a briefing of the multiversity initiative of redesigning social sciences curriculum at the university level, by Ram. Introduction to Samanvaya and the Paatashaala

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“Schools can be anywhere…everywhere, not just in buildings”- Ranjan De, May 2007“Here and now… what is it to be happy and being the best, now? … education should give children this…”- Akila, May 2007 “he (the child) learns what he wants to learn, he may not learn what you want him to learn”- Dr. Saraswathi, June 2007 “If I have to be with people, I can’t be a specialist, I have to be a

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The meeting had an informal beginning with the discussion slipping into the Activity Based Learning (ABL) programme being upscaled by the Tamilnadu government. A brief introduction of the current initiative and developments in ABL as well as NCERT chief Krishna Kumar’s column on quality of education, was given by Priya. Smt Saraswathi shared her experience with this programme as also her life’s

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The debate on education is never ending, at least criticisms are not new. I would like to react to some of the observations made yesterday. 1. On relevance of this group 2. Meaning of Education 3. Who is being educated? 4. They Vs us 5. Tradition, families, values, and modern schooling. This group I believe sets to achieve understanding of education, learning, schooling. This is not new; we

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The debate on education is never ending, at least criticisms are not new. I would like to react to some of the observations made yesterday. 1. On relevance of this group 2. Meaning of Education 3. Who is being educated? 4. They Vs us 5. Tradition, families, values, and modern schooling. This group I believe sets to achieve understanding of education, learning, schooling. This is not new; we

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My brief notes of the discussions on 5th May are as follows:Participants present for this session were Akila, Sangeetha, Naveen, M. Ramachandran, Ranjan De, Srinivasan, Nithiyanandam, Ram, Prasanna and Priya.During the session on 5th May, we started the discussions with Ram explaining why we at Samanvaya saw the need to initiate such a forum on education and our earlier experiences with such

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Akila Writes:It so happens that at this point of time i have 5 youngsters in the immediate family circle who have completed their plus 2 this year. Let me start with good things first. My niece no.1, is a parent's dream of a child - Attitude-wise and performance-wise. Her parents were cool and confident that they wouldn't have to go rushing after management quotas. They were right, she's

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The News Report on the Launch of PaataShaala in The Hindu, Chennai edition - 12th May 2007. Forum to discuss issues in education Staff Reporter

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