Happy Monday Morning. Happy – to be back in Bombay, back home, and back at my blog (there, I said it) – and earlier than I had planned… Also happy to have come across this remarkable initiative in flickr – The Kalleda Rural School Photoblog. This is the photoblog of the kids at Kalleda Rural… Continue reading The Kalleda photoblog project
Category: Children and youth
Education, child labour, youth trends and more…
“New Paradigm in Management Studies”
I had put this as an update to my earlier post the MBA game. But then I decided this was too good to be true – it deserves a post all by itself. MBA after 10th! “Management Studies through Early Intervention for a Borderless Corporate World”. A New Paradigm in Management Studies, Corporate Institute of… Continue reading “New Paradigm in Management Studies”
The MBA game
If you are an MBA basher, you might find this article from Economic Times interesting – B-Schools mean wrong training only. The debate on the relevance of business schools refuses to die down. In the past, various academics – including Henry Mintzberg of McGill, Jeffrey Pfeffer of Stanford-GSB and Warren Bennis of University of Southern… Continue reading The MBA game
The education “system”
Update: Came across this very interesting piece on Robert Paterson’s blog. It ends with In short: As connectedness transforms knowledge, our education system is swinging–running–in the other direction. Do read it fully – Robert has linked to the original piece by David Weinberger there on his post. Found two pieces of writing on the education… Continue reading The education “system”
Advertising to invade textbooks
I remember some of my most exciting moments in school were when we got free samples of new products – usually food-beverage types – I would run home proudly and show them off to friends and family… And my parents would never hear the end of it till we actually brought home the stuff in… Continue reading Advertising to invade textbooks
Bare feet and happy faces…
We were driving back from an early morning drive + trek near Pune when I spotted this bunch of happy school goers. Rows of girls followed by rows of boys and then again the girls… All shepherded by a few extremely harassed teachers. Happy kids in their smart bright blue and khaki school uniforms… straining… Continue reading Bare feet and happy faces…
Children as mine workers
More than a million children work in mines, says a report from the Science Blog… “Because the money they earn is crucial to ensuring that they and their families survive, many are unable to attend school at all. These children are digging for survival,†the UN International Labour Organization (ILO) says. Read on…
Leave your children alone
Are we stifling our children with too much care, asks Bageshree S in The Hindu. Are parents stifling creativity snd independent thinking in their child(ren)? Is this the fall-out of the smaller-families-fewer- children system? Large families = more heads and mouths to worry about? Fewer children + absence of other family members (grandparents, aunts and… Continue reading Leave your children alone
Reaching for the stars…
Sunil’s post the scavenger’s son and the comments on the post relating to the role of education in ‘social upliftment’ triggered memories of a few young people I have met… I had written about them earlier – here it is… = = = = = = = = = = = = = = =… Continue reading Reaching for the stars…