बिहार की आवाज़ आइए, हवा का रुख बदल दें कल ट्रेन भर – भर कर जाती थीं आज ट्रेन भर – भर कर आयी हैं और कल ट्रेन भर – भर कर जाएँगी पर उनमें अब लोग न होंगे होंगी केवल ज्ञान की पोटरियाँ अन्न, फल और सब्जियाँ अंडे, वस्त्र और मछलियाँ आइए, हवा का […]
चर्मकार
हम चर्मकार हैं , दुनिया का दुःख दर्द मिटाते रहते हैं। हम कर्मकार हैं , व्यर्थों में भी अर्थ ढूँढते रहते हैं तुम तो नर को कंधा देकर नामों निशाँ मिटा देतेपशुओं को कंधा दे […]
सृजनवादी गीत
हम शिक्षु हैं सृजनवाद के हमें सदा ही बढ़ना है नई सोच और नई दिशाएँ हर दिन नित पल गढ़ना है देख के चीजें आस-पास की, हम इसकी पहचान करें क्या होता है, कैसे क्या हो, इसका हम अनुमान करें। उत्तर देते आये अब तक , प्रश्न हमें अब करना है। हम शिक्षु ————————————————– कण-कण […]
सूर्य को अर्घ्य
– चार दिनों के कठोर तप के बाद गंगा के पानी में खड़ा होकर माँ ने छठ घाट पर सबको जब सूर्यदेव को अर्घ्य देने को कहा तो आधुनिक विज्ञान पढ़नेवाला ईश्वर विरोधी बच्चा चिल्लाया ‘नहीं देता अर्घ्य’ । उसने चुनौती के अंदाज में कहा हे सूर्यदेव, बताओ तुम्हें देव क्यों कहूँ ? क्यों करूँ […]
सृजनगीत गाएँ
सृजनगीत गाएँ सृजनगीत गाएँ नव वर्ष में हम सृजनगीत गाएँ । हर क्षण नया हो हर पल नया हो सब कोई यहाँ तो सृजन कर रहा हो सृजन की तो ऐसी धारा बहाएँ सृजनगीत गाएँ सृजनगीत गाएँ। हरेक व्यक्ति शिक्षु हरेक व्यक्ति शिक्षक लर्निंग समाज सृजनता का पोषक अब ऐसा समाज बना के दिखाएँ सृजनगीत […]
रमुआ से अब राम बना दो
एक विनती तो है ये भगवन मेरी प्रार्थना स्वीकार करा दो पैरवी पैगाम जैसे हो लेकिन रमुआ से अब राम बना दो। चाह नहीं मैं हलुआ पूरी मुर्ग मुसल्लम खाकर सोऊँ पर माँड़ भात साग से हरदिन मेरे पेट की आग बुझा दो। चाह नहीं कि सूट टाई से सजकर घर से बाहर जाऊँ पर […]
प्रकृति का रक्षक-कोरोना
बाग में घूमते हुए मिल गए कोरोना जी छोटे से ठिगने से एक किनारे चुपचाप दुबके हुए कौतूहलवश पूछ बैठा हे विश्व सम्राट तुम तो विचित्र हो अदृश्य हो अविनाशी हो सर्वद्रष्टा हो सर्वव्यापी हो सर्वशक्तिमान हो पर पता नहीं तुम हो कौन चुपचाप दुबके बैठे हो कुछ तो बताओ तुम कौन हो, कैसे हो […]
घर वापसी
पूरे जीवन की सम्पत्ति को बोरे में बाँधकर अपनी इच्छा अरमानों की बलि चढ़ाते हुए दूध मुंहे बच्चे को गोद में लेकर पत्नी के साथ एक श्रमिक ने घर वापसी के लिये राज मार्ग पर जैसे ही अपने पाँव आगे बढ़ाए
60 years of netarhat : Lessons for Inclusive Quality Schooling
60 years of netarhat : Lessons for Inclusive Quality Schooling from Vijoy Prakash
Rat Farming- An opportunity for food security
India has brought an Act on Food Security which basically aims at providing food and nutritional security based on human life cycle approach by ensuring access to adequate amount of quality food at affordable prices and also to provide supplementary nutrition to children from 6 months to 14 years through Integrated Child Development Scheme and […]
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Broadstreaming, not Mainstreaming
‘Broadstreaming, not Mainstreaming’ – An Approach towards Solutions for Inclusive Development was delivered at XLRI, Jamshedpur as inaugural address in the conference on ‘Solutions to Inclusive Development’ on January 29, 2010. Download the presentation. Broadstreaming, Not Mainstreaming
Creative Knowledge
Creative Knowledge was released on the occasion of inaugration of Ritu Sinha Knowledge Centre for Creative Learning at School of Creative Learning on December 27, 2009. Visit Picasaweb RSKCCL for RSKCCL Inaugration pictures.
How to start a game?
Creative Learning requires development of activities in the form of games. In order to organise these activities, we should adopt the prevalent methods of collecting players, choosing leaders, making pairs or teams, etc. We shall first discuss the general principles involved in these activities. For a PDF of the same, click Creative Learning Games I […]
Read stories from the first day
(Excerpt from the book Creative Learning by Vijoy Prakash) One of the interesting findings of researches on learning is that the child should be exposed to reading books from quite early in life. This process should start as early as possible without even waiting for the child to show responses to the stimuli. Now it […]
Dining Time Interaction
(Excerpt from the book Creative Learning by Vijoy Prakash) Dining time is another great occasion for learning. Dining together in a family situation is helpful not only in binding the family together, it helps in understanding likes and dislikes of family members also. It is also useful in effecting emotional closeness among family members. Traditionally, […]
Interact with children during bedtime
(Excerpt from the book Creative Learning by Vijoy Prakash) When young infants go to bed, they expect their parents to be with them. This is a good occasion to interact with them. It has been seen that songs and stories narrated to them at this time have great impact on the development of their brains. […]
Develop family as the first school
(Excerpt from the book Creative Learning by Vijoy Prakash) Family is said to be the first school, but we have done little to develop it as the first school. Swami Dayanand had identified father, mother and teacher to be the three pillars of education of a child. In Satpatha Brahman it was said, matriman pitrimanaachryavan […]
Learning through games
The article Learning through games by Vijoy Prakash was published in Student Corner in Jagran Yahoo. There are many games you play in your due course of activities. But have you ever thought about learning with games? For example, there are many children love playing cricket. Is it possible to learn from Cricket? Let us see… In […]
Why children do not perform well?
When children do not get good grades in any subject or are not able to perform up to our expectation, we often chide and goad them to work harder in the subject. Is it the right way to assess and motivate the child? Experiences at School of Creative Learning have shown that the issue of […]
More Comments on Rat Farming
Rats–coming to your grocers soon! by John Wood Sr OpEd News I personally think Mr Prakash has a noble idea–another good source of cheap protein is invaluable, especially considering how many of the worlds millions live on the edge of starvation. I truly hope that his endeavors are successful, and that his visionary idea spreads across […]
Coverage on Rat Farming
BBC News Read BBC on Rat Farming: August 13, 2008 by Amarnath Tewary Mr Prakash says his proposals to popularise rat meat eating are intended to uplift their social-economic condition. “There are twin advantages of this proposal. First, we can save about half of our food grain stocks by catching and eating rats and secondly […]
Rat Farming in Food & Wine Magazine
The issue of rat eating is discussed in this article The Ubiquitous Rat by Pam Brunning in the Food & Wine Magazine of International Wine and Food Society (IW & FS). “Rat meat is a healthy alternative to rice and grains,” Vijay Prakash of the Bihar state welfare department told a press conference in Patna […]
Gamma-Rays from rotating black holes
Abstract The gamma-ray luminosity due to the decay of pions produced during spherical accretion onto rotating black holes has been calculated. The model consists of a Kerr black hole of arbitrary angular momentum surrounded by interstellar gas consisting of completely ionized hydrogen atoms. There is an 80% increase in flux as we go from Schwarzschild to […]
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Right to Education for underprivileged
Project Background and Description In 2004-06, APCL had run a project with CEF on ‘Education for Democracy’. In this project, it was found that there was a need to orient learning systems to take care of the socio-cultural context of the underprivileged. For this purpose, it would be better to have laboratories in different subjects, […]
Achhe ko achha kahein
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Project Pehachan cited
Project Pehachan (Identity) for Rehabilitation of Beggars was cited by N. Sreenivasan in his paper “Money doesn’t begets money”. Abstract of the Paper Poverty and Begging are two major social problems. Middle income group businessmen too fail to earn and becomes poor over a period of 5 or 10 years. Mere Money with the Government of […]
Abhivanchiton ka shikshadhikar: Educational Rights for Underprivileged
The book Abhivanchiton ka Shikshadhikar – Education for Underprivileged, authored by Vijoy Prakash and Prof Shailendra Kr Shrivastava has been published by Rajkamal Publication, New Delhi. About the book Modern education system serves the needs of upper and upper middle class only. Confined to their own world realities Lower middle and middle class […]
Address on the occasion of the Book Release Function
Address of Sri Vijoy Prakash on the occasion of the Book Release Function of the book EDUCATION FOR DEMOCRACY His Excellency the Governor of Bihar Sri Raghunadan Lal Bhatia and dear friends, I express my deep gratitude to His Excellency for having spared his valuable time to release our book Education for Democracy. This book […]
Education for Democracy
More than half a century has passed since India had adopted democracy as a way of governance. We had also visualised evolution of a democratic society through this process. How far have we moved towards realisation of this goal? How does our adolescent mind think about democracy and democratic way of living? Is our education […]
Nai Duniya : March 8, 2009 : Rat Farming
This is a news item in Nai Duniya (March 8, 2009)
Hindustan : Rat farming
His idea on rat farming was ranked above Obama, McCain, Hillary, Sarah Palin, Oprah as the “world’s stupidest statement award” of 2008. http://www.reuters.com/article/pressRelease/idUS99512+02-Jan-2009+PRN20090102 Dennis Avery considers his idea on “rat farming” to be the best “non-science” solution to issues of global food scarcity. Dennis T. Avery, is a senior fellow with the Hudson Institute in […]
Rat Farming
Comments on Rat Farming If humans will need twice as much food and feed in 2040 how would we feed ourselves and our increasing number of pets with low organic yields? Organic fields yields are limited primarily because of the global shortage of manure. However, the world would need billions more cattle to get extra […]
Creative Learning: A Handbook for Teachers and Trainers
We are gradually moving towards a knowledge-based society, which sustains on the strength of information to be used in all walks of life. The phenomenal rise in the use of information marks the movement of the society into a new phase of socio-economic order. In this era of information-based socio-economic order, creativity is going to […]
Nutritional Value of Rat Meat
Nutritional Value of Rat Meat The current knowledge of the yield and nutritional (proximate and fatty acid) composition of meat derived from African ungulates, camelidae, rodents, ratites and reptiles is reviewed. Although most of the species discussed give low cholesterol levels consistent with their low meat lipid contents, the tegu lizard gives a very low […]
Right to Education for the Underprivileged
Association for Promotion of Creative Learning
APCL or Association for Promotion of Creative Learning is a non-profit making society established to promote creativity and creative learning in Society. It has developed unique teaching/ learning methodology and evaluation technique based on modern concepts but drawing from ancient Indian wisdom. Visit www.creativelearning.in for more details. Association for Promotion of Creative Learning Publish at […]
A short note on the Theory of Multiple Intelligence
There has been wide divergence among psychologists about the nature of role of intelligence in learning processes. Earlier intelligence quotient was taken be the real measure of one’s intelligence. But, now there is another development in the field of learning, which has far reaching implication for educational field. In 1983, Dr. Howard Gardner1, a psychologist […]
Learning History Creatively
This paper was presented in a programme of Training of teachers in Department of History, Patna University organised by Academic Staff College, Patna in 2005. It is often said that we learn Historians and not History. We learn their observations, their findings and their conclusion. It reflects author’s perceptions, ideology and his/her method of analysis. […]
Lessons for Prevention and Management of Disability
This paper was presented in the national conference organized by Disability Commissioner, Govt. of India at Patna in April 2006. Go to the people. Live with them. Learn from them. Love them. Start with what they know. Build with what they have. But with the best leaders, When the work is done, The task accomplished, […]
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Educating Underprivileged – Some critical concerns
Despite several alluring programmes and incentives in the form of cash and kinds, majority of underprivileged and poor children prefer not to go to school. Even if they do, they don’t continue there. Is it because they don’t understand the value of education or the interventions are not attractive enough to retain them in school? […]