Jaipuria Schools: Back to School Issue 09

June 2015 • VOLUME 11 • ISSUE 11

Newsletter of Seth M.R. Jaipuria Schools (For Private and Privileged Circulation)

EDITOR’S NOTE

Dear Readers,

Hon’ble Prime minister’s ‘Make in India’ initiative is an aspirational goal for Indian economy. To make this a reality, our educational system should act as a catalyst. The Jaipuria group, I am sure can make a tremendous contribution in this regard. The schools, which we are opening in Tier 2 and Tier 3 cities, can influence large numbers of our future working population....

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Mrs Beena Nair
Academic Head
Seth M. R. Jaipuria Schools

SETH MR JAIPURIA - THE BEST EMERGING SCHOOL
	We are proud to announce that SETH MR JAIPURIA SCHOOLS has been awarded Emerging K-12 School Chain of the Year Award at the Indian National Congress 2015. Congratulations to all schools of Jaipuria, partners, students, parents, teachers and staff!! Sharad Jaipuria Chairman Jaipuria Group

Academic Innovations

History Teaching – Questioning the Pedagogy

Young people often see things as ‘the way they were’ and this, I believe, has a lot to do with the way they are taught. Let me give you an example:The British ‘decimated’ the education system in India. This one-dimensional or rather casual discourse almost makes history a ‘matter of fact’ and leads to students taking historical accounts at face value without placing them in any sort of context. I also think that such teaching makes students empathize with the ‘victims’, blame the unidentifiable ‘offenders’ and ‘onlookers’, which leads them to develop a very clouded moral vision. But is this what we want to achieve through our history teaching? It’s a big NO for me. And this leads to me question – what should the pedagogy for History teaching aim at?

Before I answer the question, let me put forth some of my sweeping generalizations...

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Nidhi Tiwari

HIGHLIGHTS OF THE MONTH

LAUNCH OF ACADEMIC SESSIONS

We are extremely happy and proud that the academic sessions at SIX schools is underway by July 2015. After Gomti Nagar, Lucknow (1992), Bansal Campus, Sitapur Road, Lucknow (2014), Varanasi, Patna, Barabanki and Faizabad (2015) have welcomed thousands of new students and parents to the Jaipuria family!

TRAININGS IN SETH M.R JAIPURIA SCHOOLS

While the schools are getting ready to reopen after the summer break, it was very important to empower all our teachers with new techniques of imparting knowledge. Hence refresher trainings were conducted in all Seth MR Jaipuria schools; namely Patna, Banaras, Barabanki and Faizabad

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Interview of the Month

Visionary Speaks

“Any skill development mission has to adopt a comprehensive approach at all three fronts—increasing enrolment and access, reducing dropouts once enrolled, and ensuring right delivery. Jaipuria group is making headway on all three counts in a consistent manner, and all it has to do is to strengthen and consolidate further.” ….. Says Dr Prabhat Pankaj.

In our endeavor to find more about the relevance of education and its role in Prime Minister’s Skilling India initiative we approached Dr. Prabhat Pankaj, well known economist and Director of Jaipuria Institute of Management, Jaipur, for his views.

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Dr. Prabhat Pankaj
Director
Jaipuria Jaipur

NURTURE OUR SOUL

Role of Questioning in the Classroom

“In a global information environment, the old pattern of education in answer-finding is one of no avail: one is surrounded by answers, millions of them, moving and mutating at electric speed. Survival and control will depend on the ability to probe and to question in the proper way and place.”

M. McLuhan (probably written 30 or 40 years ago)

Ever wondered, if Newton had not questioned why the apple fell from the tree, we probably would not have known about gravity! If you think about how all...

Dr. Priyanka Jain

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