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How Outdoor Learning Transforms Students into Confident Creators Beyond the Four Walls

Meditation is an ancient practice of discourse for improving physical, mental and emotional state by acting as awareness energiser which brings peace, tolerance and solidarity. This ancient practice is now well accepted in society and education world where concentration, focus and performance are the main yardsticks of student development. The job of the teaching profession is really exhausting and requires lots of patience as a teacher has to face unending queries from his or her students and at the same time manage them with the appropriate solution. The student who seeks for solution of the problem is always faced with focus and concentration issues, especially during the boring or non-interactive classroom session. Such a scenario is not new to the school and every second school is trying to overcome this kind of problem which may directly affect the overall performance of students and school as a whole. The solution to such issues is the inclusion of a meditation session in regul...

  Every parent has an aspiration to get his or her child admitted to the best school in the city so that the sake of the child's overall personality development. And such aspirations are quite normal in the present socio-economic scene in urban and semi-urban India. In search of good education, parents are trying hard to seek admission for their wards in their chosen schools, if not this year, then next year or so on. In the race of chasing good schools, over present school child happens to see more than one school within his 10 years of age. Under the changing environment of the new school and ever-rising aspirations of parents happiness and joy of the child get lost as he gets himself mentally ready to face the new school environment every 2 or 3 years and in between he loses all his connections and bonding he has created during his previous schooling such connections are with the place, nature out there or people around that school. Most of the time such a child faces four major...

  School curriculum has undergone paradigm changes in the last 15 years and one of the major changes is in the area of technique, approach, and methods of teaching. The use of science laboratories in secondary education is a relatively modern time practice and many schools in rural areas lack such facilities. The educators and researchers had chosen Science over any other subjects for practical experience in the laboratory because science is totally different from any other subject and it touches almost every dimension of life one can experience whether it is the use of a toothbrush for cleaning teeth or mobile phone for communication or catching a public transport to cover distance or just writing with pen it is all understanding and application of science and to understand and experience this dimension one must think beyond boundary walls of classroom where information mugging is the order of the day. Of late researchers have realized that science as a subject requires special at...