Climate change is the defining challenge of today’s students’ lives. Research on climate change education identifies approaches that develop agency and hope rather than paralysis and despair. Here is something most teachers in India know but rarely say aloud: the research on Teaching Children About the Climate Emergency Without Causing Climate Anxiety is more specific, […]
Children who feel they belong in their school — who feel known, safe, and valued — learn more, stay longer, and develop more fully. The conditions that produce belonging are specific and teachable. A contributing voice from educational research | Specialist in child development, wellbeing, and community engagement This essay addresses one of the most […]
Teachers are not therapists. But they are with children for six hours a day, five days a week, for ten months a year. No one else in a child’s life has this vantage point — and research is clear that a noticing teacher changes outcomes. A contributing voice from teacher education | Specialist in curriculum, […]
India’s board examinations are among the most high-stakes in the world. The pressure they generate is real, documented, and consequential — and most schools respond to it in ways that make it worse, not better. A contributing voice from child development | Specialist in education equity, school improvement, and teacher professional development This essay addresses […]
Bullying in Indian schools is underreported, underdiscussed, and often addressed through the wrong interventions. The evidence on what actually reduces bullying is more specific — and more demanding — than most people realise. A contributing voice from policy analysis | Specialist in child development, wellbeing, and community engagement This essay addresses one of the most […]
For some children, the anxiety of attending school is not a phase or a tactic. It is a clinical reality that is frequently misread as defiance or laziness — with consequences that can derail years of education. A contributing voice from school practice | Specialist in curriculum, pedagogy, and school leadership This essay addresses one […]
A school with a toilet that nobody maintains teaches its students something very specific about what they are worth. The state of a school’s sanitation facilities is a moral and pedagogical question, not only an infrastructure one. Ranjini Krishnaswamy | WASH researcher and school health consultant This is one of the under-discussed but important challenges […]
An unknown but significant number of children in Indian classrooms cannot see the blackboard or hear the teacher clearly. They are not diagnosed. They adapt — by sitting quietly, by copying from classmates. Eventually, many stop coming. Dr Rajeev Pillai | Public health ophthalmologist with experience in school health programmes This is one of the […]
A child who arrives at school hungry does not have a behaviour problem or a motivation problem. She has a nutrition problem — and the evidence on what hunger does to the developing brain is as clear as any risk factor in education. Dr Anjali Menon | Paediatrician and school health researcher, based in Tamil […]
The school timetable is treated as a logistical document. It is also an expression of educational values — and in many Indian schools, the values expressed are not the ones anyone would consciously choose. A contributing voice from teacher education | Specialist in education equity, school improvement, and teacher professional development This essay addresses one […]
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