Learning Spaces in Schools

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Only Teachers Can, with Talking Circle

In her article, Janani Iyer shows the importance of Talking Circles as a tool to promote children’s mental health and well-being and to create an environment facilitative of their flourishing.

By Janani Iyer | 8 mins read | 3 July 2024

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Walls and Nature as Learning Spaces

In her perceptive article, Nandini Shetty demonstrates from her own individual and organizational practice, how walls and curated engagements with nature can be productively used as learning spaces to reignite children’s innate love for knowledge.

By Nandini Shetty | 7 mins read | 3 July 2024

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Key Learning Spaces in Schools outside the Classroom – Why We Must Work in Them and How

In their article ‘Key Learning Spaces in Schools outside the Classroom: Why We Must Work in Them and How,’ Nandita Raval and Seema Sirohi highlight the importance of four key places/areas – Bal Sansad, libraries, the school assembly and BaLA (Building as Learning Aid), which can be used to go beyond the classroom and make the school an enriching space for fostering children’s learning experiences.

By Nandita Raval, Seema Sirohi | 13 mins read | 27 April 2023

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Latika Vihar: More Like Real Life

Jo Chopra McGowan in her piece ‘Latika Vihar: More Like Real Life,’ shares the experience as a member of the team that sustains Latika Vihar as an inclusive learning space open to all children, by making play the center of the facilitation.

By Jo Chopra McGowan | 8 mins read | 24 April 2023

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Ingredients for the Recipe Called ‘KathaVana’ – Facilitating a Children’s Literature Festival

In ‘Ingredients for the Recipe Called ‘KathaVana,’’ Sonika Parashar and Umashanker Periodi share their experience of sustaining a children’s literature festival and some key learnings that we can all use to start something similar in our own context.

By Sonika Parashar, Umashanker Periodi | 8 mins read | 21 April 2023

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Exploring learning spaces outside the school for effective learning

In this issue, we explore a diversity of such spaces, and the ways in which these can be used to help our children learn in an engaged manner.

By Samuhik Pahal Team | 2 mins read | 20 April 2023

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Celebrating Science and Math through Fairs

Akshatha N. Tirumalai and Sandhya Gupta, in the article titled ‘Celebrating Science and Math through Fairs,’ show how the traditional form of the ‘mela’ or local fairs is being effectively used by their organization to change the attitude to learning STEM subjects, by taking these outside classrooms and labs, and by making them fun and learner-centred.