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Education at “the soul of India”: Ashram Schools

September 8, 2020September 8, 2020 Smriti S. Raj 8 Comments community, Culture, Development, education, environment., holistic education, inequality, learning, life skills, rural/urban divide, stakeholders, students, teachers, technical skills, Tradition, unity in diversity, urbanisation, village

While there can be no standardised holistic form of education, in order to smoothen the crevices of our educational topography, we can take inspiration from Ashram schools, models of learning that aim to be inclusive, integrated, and multi-faceted.

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Gaps in Virtual Teaching

August 5, 2020August 5, 2020 Tanya Mittal 0 Comments academics, administration, assessments, Catch-22, CBSE, challenge, classroom, content creators, content developers, Corona Virus, Coursera, COVID-19, Development, digitalization, disability, e-material, education, exams, experience, futuristic, helicopter parenting, incommunicado, indispensable, institutions, interference, Internet, invasion, knowledge, learning, link, malpractise, medium, ministry, online classes, online school, online teaching, pandemic, personality, planning, primary, privilege, repository, reputation, responsibility, secondary, skills, teachers, teaching, traditional, Udemy, UGC, virtual, Virtual teaching

Learning and gaining knowledge these days no more remains limited to the four walls of an institution or a classroom. With digitalization, spreading fast these have become a thing of the past, and more so due to ongoing pandemic. Moving ahead head first into the future is one thing, but should we not pause and consider if everyone is reaping the benefits of it?