‘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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]