Education

This article highlights the importance of sustained, teacher-centred professional development and deep state–civil society partnerships to strengthen education systems. It also emphasizes teacher well-being, agency, and continuous learning as foundations for meaningful change.

The ‘Ground Zero’ piece highlights how organizations of many different kinds across the country are trying to democratize the space of education through the learning centers that they run.

Roshni Ravi curated a set of textual resources on nature education for this issue of Samuhik Pahal, offering valuable insights and knowledge to the readers.

In this article, Chandra Shekhar Balachandran makes a case for making geography education in schools more concept-driven and activity-based. He shows us how this process can contribute towards building larger insights into social processes.

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.