COVID-19 has washed out fun and frolics of April Fools' Day
COVID-19 pandemic has killed April Fools' Day fun and frolics since 2020 as hardly any jokes, pranks and hoaxes appeared in the...
April Fools' Day now celebrated on a wiser note: Very funny!
It is April Fools' Day today with all the fun, frolics, pranks and jokes has bee washed away due to 'new normals' owing to Covid-19...
Pyramid poems have multiple academic benefits: Try occasional pyramid poetry jams
A pyramid poem is an un-rhyming four-line 'sound poem' with successively increasing number of words by one more in each next line. In...
Understanding true education through diamante pattern poem
According to noted thinker, philosopher and spiritualist – Jiddu Krishnamurti, “Systems, whether educational or political, are not...
Integration of life and learning leads to real education: Non poem
Integration life and learning leads real education: Non poem Education acquired Through books Through verbosity Through rote methods...
Spiritual intelligence is knowledge of the self by one’s own self: Non poem
Spiritual intelligence is knowledge of the self by one’s own self: Non poem To enhance spiritual intelligence Teach not spirituality...
Enliven disciplinary learning by promoting verbal & rhythmic intelligences built into diamante poems
A diamante (Inventor: American poet Iris McClellan Tiedt - 1969) is an un-rhymed seven-line diamond shape rhythmic pattern poem. Many...
Maharashtra's 'Gudi Padwa' festival: New Year Day for prosperity through victory over vices
This year Gudi Padwa will be celebrated on April 2. Here, I reproduce my article [1] from merinews portal which has been discontinued In...
Bring school construct into home, say proponents of un-schooling
In nineteen sixties, John Caldwell Holt published a book entitled ‘How Children Fail’ which criticized traditional schools that believed...
Gurukula system of education: An ABC poem and a sketch
ABC of gurukula system of education A: Acknowledgement of return for education as deep reverence for the guru and willingly giving...
A sketch note on a good textbook of science at middle school level
A sketch note was prepared on the basis of group discussion at Viva Education in Delhi on December 4, 2014 coordinated by me in which...
Readers’ theater can improve reading skills: Special on the World Theater Day
Supported by UNESCO, the World Theatre Day (WTD) has been celebrated by ITI Centres and their associates with active participation of...
Trend of micro-poetry and six-word poems on education
With spread of digital world, technology mediated fast life and social media popularity, the micro-poetry genre of verses such as...
Governance sensitivity toward economic security & protection of human rights raise happiness index
The scribe and citizen journalist Dr. Lalit Kishore at Merinews in his article of 20 March, 2018 "International Day of Happiness: Are...
Earth Hour Day 2022: The Theme is "Shape Our Future"
Earth Hour began in Sydney in 2007 as a symbolic lights-out event for one hour organised by WWF which has now become popular across the...
Multiple benefits of finger puppets
When finger puppets are made and used with the help of children, besides learning of language and cognitive development, such puppets...
Need to create and adapt pre-school English poems in context of Indian children: Focus group
“The poems and songs of pre-school children should be created by the teachers and educators themselves to be related to the context and...
Teach through visual and musical intelligence for grades one and two
It has been found that for teaching children of grades one and two combining musical and visual intelligences is most effective since not...
Classroom daily life activity of rightly aided tripod grasp for pre-school kids
An illustrative instructional sheet was prepared for picture reading and illustration instructional sheet for the kids in an inclusive...





















