Education

In the piece titled “Quest of Togetherness: ‘Sangati’” Nivedita Dwivedi writes about the ‘Sangati’ program of Avehi Abacus Project. Sangati is an innovative, three-year supplementary social sciences program, comprising of six kits, that runs in classes V to VII of Mumbai’s municipal schools.

This volume remains important and relevant, as it discusses some fundamental issues and concerns related to the nature of learning in social sciences disciplines.

This article discusses the experiences of the author in being exposed to the work of the Hoshangabad Science Teaching Programme (HSTP) as a young man. He describes how being heard with attention, and being included in decision making processes, made him stay back and continue with the work.

Introduction Education is a social enterprise. It is deeply rooted in social reality. Even though the biological constitution of a human being is the same across the world, social reality differs hugely. Human beings across the world have different clothes and eating habits. They also have different religious beliefs, forms of government and even different […]

In this short article, I explore the strange trajectory of the role of context in learning. I illustrate this by what it might mean in teaching about a theme like casteism.

In the “Resources and Reviews” section, Nikhil Agrawal and Aastha Maggu share a useful and well-curated set of teaching-learning resources for computing education.