School Subjects

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.

A conversation with Sonia Garcha demonstrates the need to go beyond digital literacy and ICTs while designing interventions in CS education for India’s classrooms, and why we need to keep both teachers’ agency and the perspective building of education leaders at the center of our work.

In a wide-ranging discussion on STEM/CS education, Akshay Kashyap and Nirbhay Lumbde provide the funders’ perspective on these themes and share how equity and program effectiveness are growing areas of focus and action.

In the “Insights” section, Heera Basnet captures practitioners’ voices from the ground.

In their article titled “Happily bridging the computational thinking divide,” Supriya Dey and Vaishnavi Gupta show how it is possible to make contemporary innovations on computational thinking in Indian classrooms inclusive of the visually challenged.

Krithik Ranjan, in his article, shares a creative innovation in learning computational thinking through paper-based animation.