symposium participants

  • THE PROBLEM
    Posed by Krishna Kumar, Director, National Council of Educational Research and Training, Delhi

  • INTERVIEW
    with Ahalya Chari, Trustee, Krishnamurti Foundation of India by Meera Srinivasan, Principal Correspondent and Deputy City Editor, 'The Hindu', Chennai

  • A TEACHER'S LIFE
    Penny Winter, ex-teacher, London, U.K.

  • MAKING OF A TEACHER
    Latika Gupta, doctoral student, Department of Education, University of Delhi; currently, Fulbright Fellow, University of Wisconsin, Madison, U.S.A.

  • TEACHERS AND CHILDREN
    Sister Valerie Van Cauwenberghe CSJ, former Principal, primary education consultant, London, Canada

  • WHY IT DOESN'T HAPPEN
    Frances Kumar, primary specialist teacher, Delhi

  • MY LEARNING
    Sonia Kadyan, student, B.El.Ed. programme, Gargi College, University of Delhi

 

 

 

 

#592
 December 2008


THE NEGLECTED TEACHER
a symposium on the need to reform
teacher training and education


cover design by Meghna Saraogi

 

 

  • REMEMBERING CHITRA MA'AM
    Swara Bhaskar, freelance researcher and writer, Mumbai

  • THE NEED TO FOCUS ON TEACHER EDUCATION
    Mili and Sunil M. Kumar, ICICI Centre for Elementary Education, Mumbai

  • A TIME FOR CHANGE
    Farida Abdulla Khan, Department of Educational Studies, Jamia Millia Islamia, Delhi

  • TRAINING! TRAINING!
    Vimala Ramachandran, Educational Resource Unit, Delhi; Suman Bhattacharjea and K.M. Sheshagiri, independent researchers, Delhi and Chennai

  • BOOKS
    Reviewed by Manish Jain and Shirley Joseph

  • FURTHER READING
    A select and relevant bibliography compiled by Swati Sahni, teacher trainer, Pravah, Delhi and Educational Resource Unit, Delhi

  • COMMENT
    Received from Prahlad Singh Shekhawat, Director, Alternative Development Centre, Jaipur and C.P. Bhambhri, Emeritus Professor, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi

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