Why Don’t Our Textbooks Live Up to Our Ambitious Education Policies?
This is the first instalment of a two-part series on how and why our textbooks fail to meet the lofty ambitions set by national...
How Community-Based Learning Supports Students and Families in the Long Run
“During the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, there was complete uncertainty about colleges reopening and the kind of future I would have,” recalls Dhanashree Madigalekar, a...
How Has the Role of Stakeholders in Education Changed? #Dialogues with Kavita Anand
Edited by Malavika VN
The COVID-19 crisis has thrown the education system in disarray. While schools and colleges have had to adapt to and embrace...
Bastion Shorts: Has AAP’s Education Model Really Worked?
The Bastion Shorts—Episode 5
As Delhi goes to vote tomorrow, many of us would be basing our votes on the reforms brought about in...
Nurturing Sensitivity in Students: The Dearth of Mental Health Education in India
Co-authored by Gopika Kumaran & Avantika Bunga
10% of India’s population suffers from Common Mental Disorders (CMDs) which include depression, anxiety and substance abuse, according...
From Streets to Schools | The Bastion x Save the Children
“As the traffic light turns green, the car speeds off, leaving behind a little girl in a yellow dress selling storybooks on the street....
Do Children in Preschool Ever Actually Play “Freely”?
One could say that the “all-work-and-no-play-makes-Jack-a-dull-boy” proverb has been butchered out of context many-a-time. While adults — especially those now overworked from home —...
Social and Emotional Learning Can Help Indian Schools Deal With the Mental Impacts of...
India needs to develop a contextualised framework for Social and Emotional Learning to address the pandemic's mental impacts on students and caregivers.
Can the NITI Aayog’s School Education Quality Index Effectively Evaluate Indian Education?
Written by Avani Airan
The NITI Aayog recently introduced a first-of-its-kind School Education Quality Index (SEQI). The index provides a regular review of the quality...
Educating Refugees: Uncertain Prospects for Rohingya Children in Chennai
Written by Jayashri R. Sundaram
“I am happy that I can at least go to school here. Back home we were not allowed to even...
