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Working Paper: Curbing Crony Capitalism in India

Economic reforms sought to replace the Indian state dominant economy with a liberal, competitive market economy. However, a plethora of recent scams indicate that collusive rent sharing arrangements between business and policy makers are prevalent.

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Working Paper: Role of Voluntary Teacher Forums in Continuous Teacher Professional Development in India

The quality of education depends largely upon the teacher. Hence building teacher capacity through continuous professional development of teachers is critical to the quality of education.

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Testing Times in Andhra Pradesh- Andhra RTE Rules: The Pitfalls of High Stakes Assessment, An Analysis by District Institute Sangareddy

The Andhra Pradesh government’s move to ensure teacher accountability in primary education, based on achievement of fixed and absolute test scores, suffers from serious conceptual flaws which could result in more harm than good.

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सपनों की उड़ान

इस प्रकाशन मे छत्तीसगढ़ के शिक्षक साथियों के तरफ से किए गए कुछ प्रयास दर्ज है। इसे अपनी तरह का नवाचार भी समझा जा सकता है। इस नवाचार मे उन शिक्षक साथियों की कहानियाँ शामिल है जो अपनी प्रॉफेश्नल और व्यक्तिगत कठिनायों के बावजूद अपनी छोटी-छोटी पहल से स्कूल और समाज मे बदलाव लाने की दिशा मे काम कर रहे ह

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Shadow But Colourful- A report on science activity, Teacher Learning Centre, Uttarkashi: A Field Workshop Report

Read the report of the activity wherein teachers discussed the concept of colour

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Session with children on solute, solvent and solution chemistry: A Field Workshop Report

the write-up gives the activity summary and the learning and reflection from the activity

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Shikshak Hatai, Khargone: A Field Report

‘Hatai’ is a nimari word which means a ‘chaupal’ in hindi close to what we can say ‘gathering’ of people mainly in a village. ‘Shikshak Hatai’ thus can be visualized as similar gathering of teachers. The events was an exhibition cum seminar of teachers

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"Spare the rod, save the child" by Dileep Ranjekar, Civil Society, April 2015

Corporal punishment is prohibited by Section 17 of the RTE Act and it is not debatable. If you want to change it, you will have to follow the process of changing it in Parliament.

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Working Paper: Social and Environmental Transformation in the Indian Peri-Urban Interface- Emerging Questions by Seema Purushothaman, Sheetal Patil, Siddhartha Lodha

Even though the literature on the Peri-Urban Interfaces (PUI) of India does not imply a simplistic unidirectional rural-urban gradient, neither the dynamic inter-linkages within these peripheries nor their diversity have been analyzed with their inherent complexity.

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Working Paper: What we ate then and what we eat now: A grandmother's tale by Shreetala Rao Seshadri, Suraj Parab, Nilanjan Bhor and Latha N

This case study looks at nutritional outcomes among a group that is not covered by national nutritional surveys: children in primary schools, in the age group 5-12 years.

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कक्षा शिक्षण में कठपुतली का इस्तेमाल, स्वैच्छिक शिक्षक मंच, टिहरी गढ़वाल: रिपोर्ट

कठपुतली कोई ऐसी विषय नहीं है जिसके बारे में हम लोग जानते नहीं हो | लेकिन शिक्षण में इसका उपयोग कैसे हो। इस कार्यशाला में इस विषय के ऊपर शिक्षा के साथ गतिविधि और बात-चीत हुआ।

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किताबें करती हैं बातें, शिक्षक अधिगम केंद्र, टिहरी गढ़वाल: रिपोर्ट

शिक्षक अधिगम केंद्र में अलग-अलग क्षेत्रों आये शिक्षकों ने इस विषय पर बात-चीत की।

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