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Using Mathematics Strategies in Early Childhood Education as a Basis for Culturally Responsive Teaching in India
Available from: Taylor and Francis Online
Publication: International Journal of Early Years Education, vol. 14, no. 1
Date: 2006
Pages: 15-34
Asia, Culturally responsive teaching, India, South Asia
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Abstract/Notes: The objective of this small study was to elicit responses from early childhood teachers in India on mathematics learning strategies and to measure the extent of finger counting technique adopted by the teachers in teaching young children. Specifically, the research focused on the effective ways of teaching mathematics to children in India, and examined teachers’ approach to number counting. In India, children were taught by their parents or by their teachers to use fingers to count. The qualitative study conducted by the researcher further enriched the topic with first‐hand comments by the teachers. Although the finger counting method was not the only process that teachers would adopt, it was embedded in the culture and taken into consideration while infusing mathematics skills. The teachers confirmed adopting the Indian method of finger counting in their teaching strategy; some specified that the method helped children to undertake addition and subtraction of carrying and borrowing, as counting by objects could not be available all the time. Although the study is limited by its small sample to the unique mathematics learning experience in India, it provides readers with a glimpse of culturally responsive teaching methods and an alternative mathematics teaching strategy.
Language: English
DOI: 10.1080/09669760500446374
ISSN: 0966-9760
Article
Integral Education in Ancient India from Vedas and Upanishads to Vedanta
Available from: International Journal of Research - Granthaalayah
Publication: International Journal of Research - Granthaalayah, vol. 6, no. 6
Date: 2018
Pages: 281-295
Asia, Education - Philosophy, India
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Abstract/Notes: Western scholarship usually ignores the contributions from other civilizations, India for instance. At the same time, contemporary India seems to have forgotten to some extent the deepest achievements of its own tradition. Moreover, modern culture has often produced some kind of despise against ancient traditions as opposed to the freedom and emancipation of the modern world. This paper tries to unveil all the depth and beauty of Indian philosophy of education, especially through major traditions such as Vedas, Upanishads and Vedanta. It also tries to show that the pedagogic message of the sages of modern India revives all the depth of the ancient tradition. This long history of holistic education in India through 35 centuries may enrich the Western insights with figures such as Steiner, Montessori or Dewey, aware that intercultural dialogue will be one of the major challenges of the XXIst century. It becomes crystal clear through this paper that the vision of integral education in Indian culture was inseparable from the spiritual/ mystical dimension, or to put in reverse terms, the spiritual domain constituted the very foundation of the educational process in Indian philosophy of education, a fundamental point that would be again emphasized by Indian modern philosophers such as Vivekananda, Aurobindo and even Krishnamurti.
Language: English
DOI: 10.29121/granthaalayah.v6.i6.2018.1373
ISSN: 2394-3629, 2350-0530
Article
Improving Creative Ability of Base of Pyramid (BOP) Students in India
Available from: ScienceDirect
Publication: Thinking Skills and Creativity, vol. 36
Date: Jun 2020
Pages: 100652
Action research, Asia, India, South Asia
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Abstract/Notes: A study was undertaken to investigate how to prepare Base of Pyramid (BOP) children in India for creativity. The quasi-experiment study involved seventy 5th grade BOP students from two municipality schools in Mumbai, India. The training group students were given Design Thinking training spread over two action research cycles, while the control group received no intervention. The present study reports on findings from the second action research cycle during which the training group received training on divergent thinking skills—skills required for Design Thinking. The data was collected using classroom worksheets and intervention test sheets, and the objective was to find answers to how ideation took place during creative work and whether divergent thinking skills—as a part of Design Thinking training—helped in improving creative ability. The quantitative analysis of The Torrance Test of Creative Thinking (TTCT) inspired intervention test sheets indicated an overall significant difference in creative ability indicator scores of students who received intervention over those who did not. Furthermore, the significant difference was found for figural tasks but not for verbal tasks. The present study also showed how a mixed-method analysis can be useful for capturing socio-cultural elements, measuring relevant idea generation and identifying the need for different creative confidence-building strategies. The study identified language as a barrier for idea expression in the case of BOP students for whom language of instruction at school was different from language spoken at home. The study recommended socio-techno entrepreneurs to use this challenge as an opportunity for becoming stakeholders in creativity skilling for BOP students.
Language: English
DOI: 10.1016/j.tsc.2020.100652
ISSN: 1871-1871
Article
Meditation, Rangoli, and Eating on the Floor: Practices from an Urban Preschool in Bangalore, India
Available from: JSTOR
Publication: YC - Young Children, vol. 65, no. 6
Date: Nov 2010
Pages: 48-55
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Language: English
ISSN: 1538-6619
Article
[Obituary: Maharaja Jiwajirao Scindia]
Publication: Around the Child, vol. 6
Date: 1961
Pages: 83
Asia, India, Maharaja Jiwajirao Scindia - Biographic sources, Obituaries, South Asia
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Language: English
ISSN: 0571-1142
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Extracts from the Address of Mrs. Bhalchandra at the Pre-School Education-Rural, Held at Seminar Hyderabad Deccan, India, in 1964
Publication: Communications (Association Montessori Internationale, 195?-2008), vol. 1965, no. 1
Date: 1965
Pages: 16-20
Asia, India, Rural education, South Asia
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Language: English
ISSN: 0519-0959
Article
International Notes [Europe, Russia, China, India, New Zealand, Central/South America]
Available from: University of Connecticut Libraries - American Montessori Society Records
Publication: Public School Montessorian, vol. 20, no. 3
Date: Spring 2008
Pages: 11
Americas, Asia, Australasia, Australia and New Zealand, Central America, China, East Asia, Eastern Europe, Europe, India, Latin America and the Caribbean, Montessori movement
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Language: English
ISSN: 1071-6246
Book Section
Scenario of Early Childhood Education in Rural India
Available from: IGI Global
Book Title: Handbook of Research on SDGs for Economic Development, Social Development, and Environmental Protection
Pages: 206-222
Asia, Early childhood care and education, Early childhood education, India, Montessori method of education, Montessori schools, South Asia
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Abstract/Notes: SDG-4 is composed of seven outcome targets and three means of implementation, and early childhood education is one of them. It has been mentioned that by 2030, we should ensure that all children have access to quality early childhood upliftment, care, and pre-primary education so that children are p...
Language: English
Published: Hershey, Pennsylvania: IGI Global, 2022
ISBN: 978-1-66845-113-7
Article
Montessori in India 1915–2021: Adapted, Competing and Contested Framings
Available from: Cambridge University Press
Publication: History of Education Quarterly, vol. 62, no. 4
Date: 2022
Pages: 387-417
Asia, India, Maria Montessori - Biographic sources, Montessori method of education - History, South Asia
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Abstract/Notes: The long history of Montessori education in India dates to 1915, and it was expanded through Maria and Mario Montessori's work in India between 1939 to 1946 and 1947 to 1949. The article characterizes a century of Montessori education in India as a series of adapted, competing, and contested framings with key disputes over Montessori education's intended purpose, audience, and how much it could be adapted. First, from 1915 to 1939, Montessori education was connected to the Indian independence movement as nation-building education, but it was eclipsed by a parallel rise of elite, private Montessori schools, a framing reinforced by Maria Montessori's insistence on fidelity to her method. Starting in the 1950s, other Indian educators adapted Montessori for poor children, an emphasis that continues today with government and foundation-funded schools. Finally, in the last thirty years, India's new middle class has driven demand for early childhood education, leading to branded Montessori franchises, some bearing little resemblance to Montessori's original pedagogy.
Language: English
DOI: 10.1017/heq.2022.25
ISSN: 0018-2680, 1748-5959
Article
Relations Between Decoding, Fluency, and Comprehension for L2 English Readers in India
Available from: Hill Publishing
Publication: The Educational Review, USA, vol. 7, no. 8
Date: 2023
Pages: 1037-1051
Asia, India, Montessori schools, South Asia
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Abstract/Notes: We report on a study that was conducted in an urban city center, Bangalore, India. The participants included 1,052 students from Grades 1, 3 and 5, who came from different home language backgrounds and attended schools where the language of instruction was English. The students’ L2 English reading skills were measured using DIBELS and Easy CBM. The purpose of this study was to examine relations between basic skills, fluency, and comprehension. Using confirmatory factor analysis (CFA), for students in Grade 1, we found reading skills mapped on to three latent factors: “letter sounds”, “letter names” and “fluency and comprehension”. For students in Grade 3, we found reading skills mapped on to two latent factors: “word and passage level fluency and comprehension” and “sentence and retell level fluency and comprehension”. For students in Grade 5, we found reading skills mapped on to two latent factors: “fluency” and “comprehension”. Implications for reading assessment and instruction practices within the Indian context will be discussed.
Language: English
ISSN: 2575-7946, 2575-7938