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Education Lessons from Practice

Muktangan: A Community-Based Education Model for Public Schools

  • March 29, 2024

The teaching-learning process emphasises the role of children in actively constructing their own learnings and concepts. Rooted in this strong belief, their educational philosophy is supported by a learning environment where children are supported to construct their own learning and feel free to share their ideas, thoughts, and expressions.
Insights from Social Contexts

Dependence of Urban Poor on Private Schools in Nairobi: An Institutional Analysis (Part II)

  • June 16, 2022

A few researchers and a set of parents argue that low-fee private schools provide `quality’ education. Though such schools fail in terms of almost all indicators of quality (basic infrastructure, qualified teachers, availability of learning materials), personal attention may enable some of their students to score better on standardized tests (and not necessarily in terms of all goals of education) than what they would have done in a typical government school.
Insights from Social Contexts

Dependence of Urban Poor on Private Schools in Nairobi: An Institutional Analysis (Part I)

  • May 31, 2022

This article looks at low-fee paying private schools in urban Nairobi and is based on short-period fieldwork in a set of such schools and interactions with school directors and teachers. We have interacted with other stakeholders, including the association of these alternate schools. A public school was also visited and the possibilities and challenges of the education of children from urban slums in these public schools were discussed.
Personal Reflections on Practice

A ‘Dark Zone’ of School Education: A Reflection

  • December 26, 2019

In the Sheo block, located around 50 km from Barmer city, which was the biggest block in the Barmer district until recently, public elementary schools run within numerous constraints. Such constraints are hardly recognised or publicised and are rarely addressed.

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