The writer is on the faculty at the Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education, a part of TIFR. Her research is on how science ought to be taught at the primary and middle school level
🔴 Jyotsna Vijapurkar writes: As a society, we have failed to provide children with meaningful engagements, learning opportunities that lie outside their academic syllabi
The ‘mistakes’ students make are wonderful windows through which to look into the working of their minds. Yet an appalling degree of impatience is built into our teaching systems.