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Re-thinking Indian Childhood: Conception, Gendered Socialization and Education

October 5, 2020October 5, 2020 Supriya Kaushik 0 Comments adulthood, American, benefit, boundaries, boy, boyhood, British, carefree, child, childhood, cognitive, colonial, comprehension, conception, confident, deprivation, emotional, experiment, feelings, fluid, freedom, Freud, generalization, girl, governmental, Happiness, ignorance, immature, india, Indian childhood, influence, kids, knowledge, learning, mature, mental, oblivion, participation, pedagogy, physical, Piaget, process, Protection, prototype, research, safety, school, sexual, skills, social, societal, system, talent, teaching, teenagers, thought, unaware, viewpoint, Western childhood

Of all the seasons we weather in our lives, childhood is one we hold on to. We carry it with us wherever we go. Virginia Woolf had said, “Why must they grow up and lose it all?”. The question is, does childhood actually have a proper definition or do we mould it as per our needs to see what we want?

History

Remembering Shankaracharya: Lessons from the Jagadguru’s life and work

September 5, 2020September 5, 2020 Editor 0 Comments acharya, adharma, Adi Shankaracharya, ascetic, asura, avatara, Bhakti, bhoga, brahmin, Buddhist, Caste, charvakas, debate, didactic, disciple, Discrimination, education, evil, guru, hermit, heterodox, Hindu mythology, Hinduism, History, hostility, householder, humanity, interpretation, Jagadguru, kamashastara, kapilakas, knowledge, learning, legend, legitimacy, madhyamika, materialist, memory, Mythology, Namboori, opponent, philosophy, proliferation, proponents, Rama, Ravana, Religion, Sanskrit, sanyasi, Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, scholar, scholarship, school, scripts, scriptures, shaktas, Shastrath, spirit, story, tantric, teachers’ day, thinking, Tradition, tribute, Vedas, vedic texts

In Shankara’s age, the threat to Vedic dharma was from the evil within and he had to tackle it through intellectual debate or shastrarth. Evil therefore had to be fought with the weapon of jnana or true knowledge.

Society

The New Age of Covid-19 Learning Space

April 27, 2020April 28, 2020 Editor 2 Comments academic session, Anglicists, artificial intelligence, books, classroom, computer engineers, COVID-19, cyberlearning, cyberspace, Eagle 2.0, education, Education For All, educators, English Language, Englishman, expert, humanoid robot, india, inferiority complex, job, knowledge, leadership, learning models, live storyteller, machines, mechanical teacher, meetings, mother tongue, Online, outdated, regional dialects, school, self-esteem, socio-economic, Super 30, teaching, teaching platform, teaching-learning, technology, traditional methodology, UNESCO, unskilled, work culture, work from home, workshops

The Covid-19 pandemic has made us experience a new culture of education. But what if this temporary measure is the inception of something permanent? Here’s an interesting take on the same.

Culture

Our Heritage through Itisaras

January 19, 2020May 17, 2020 Editor 0 Comments ancient age, architecture, Art, cultural, guide, Heritage, heritage walk, heritage week, History, Humayun’s Tomb, Indian heritage, knowledge, monuments, Mughals, past, Rashtrapati Bhawan, school, student, tour

Cultural legacy bequeathed to us is worth cherishing. India is a potpourri of heritage which we might be oblivious to some of it. Itisaras acknowledges the importance of celebrating the fervor of Heritage Week and hence we try to imbue this knowledge into future generations.
Below is an experience of a school student about our ways of preserving heritage of country.