The Open Classroom: A Journey Through Education
K.T.Margaret
Price
850
ISBN
9788125016694
Language
English
Pages
222
Format
Paperback
Dimensions
140 x 216 mm
Year of Publishing
1999
Territorial Rights
World
Imprint
Orient BlackSwan
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The author, K T Margaret believes that life is an open classroom and education a process that takes place continuously through a person’s life. Inspired by the initiatives of social activists worldwide in the field of education, she struggled through her own experiments to discover creative alternatives even while working within a flawed system. Through this account of her personal journey she shows that education goes beyond the mechanics of teaching and learning, to enrich the teacher and the taught. This book is essential reading for creative, thinking teachers as well as those interested in education.

K T Margaret has taught in a variety of settings – formal and non-formal, elite and underprivileged – and has worked as a trainer of teachers, urban and rural.

Acknowledgements
Preface
Looking Back with a Purpose


Part I

  1. What do we Expect of Education?
  2. What is Education?
  3. Teaching Teachers: Developing a Methodology
  4. A Question of Selfhood
  5. Becoming Part of Selfhood
  6. Education and Working-Class Children
  7. Teaching and Learning at the Tilaknagar Children’s Centre
  8. The Transformation of Attitude
  9. Why Schooling was a Luxury
  10. The World of the Tilaknagar Children
  11. Living Together, Learning Together
  12. Some Reflections on Education
  13. Education Programmes in Development Projects
  14. A Rural School Programme

Part II

  1. Understanding the Child
  2. The Meaning of Freedom
  3. Language Learning: Using the Name of the Child

Afterword
Select Bibliography