I am a Teacher educator concerned with spreading literacy and especially training effective teachers who would be assets to India and entire globe. I affirm the saying 'No Nation can rise above the level of teachers.'
The world today is undergoing profound economic, social, and political transformations based on t... more The world today is undergoing profound economic, social, and political transformations based on the 'Knowledge Economy', that depends upon the creation and application of new knowledge. Such an economy demands highly educated people with innovative ideas and skills of application. To produce such personnel is the responsibility of higher education system of a country. Subsequently, a worldwide boom in the demand of higher education is observed, which has resulted in massification of higher education. This has significantly changed the demographics of the student Population worldwide. Such a demographic change in the student population has far and wide impact not only on the structure and types of Universities, patterns of funding higher education and curricula but international relations as well. The present paper attempts to discuss the changing demographic patterns of the global student population, its implications and suggest future directions to adapt to this transformat...
Information and communication technology (ICT) has become a prominent part of education and offer... more Information and communication technology (ICT) has become a prominent part of education and offers numerous means of improving teaching and learning in the classroom. However, the tendency to take the teacher education curriculum for granted and the assumption that it adequately prepares teachers for the integration of ICT into their teaching practice need to be questioned. Recent studies on technology have shifted from the emphasis on technology skills alone to integrating pedagogy and content with technology, which is termed technological pedagogical content knowledge (TPACK). Deeper understanding of how TPACK can be cultivated is needed. This design-based research explored how a problem-based learning approach can help pre-service language teachers to develop TPACK and impact their teaching practices. Data was collected via self-progress surveys, ICT-mediated language lesson plans, reflections by the pre-service teachers, student-produced artefacts, records of instructional desig...
The followers of Sanātan dharma (termed as Hinduism by the Western scholars) visit temples, the s... more The followers of Sanātan dharma (termed as Hinduism by the Western scholars) visit temples, the sacred space, often habitually as a religious tradition received under their cultural heritage, oblivious of the many subtle and significant meanings conveyed through the temple architecture, the divine images and sacred rituals taking place within the temple premises. The present paper attempts to highlight how a temple embodies the fundamental and perennial values and the world view of Sanātan dharma. A Temple encompasses all the dimensions of human life; the physical, the material, the communitarian, the spiritual and the transcendental into a single composite form. It beautifully and aesthetically translates the four goals of Indic life i.e. Dharma, Artha, Kāma and Mokṣa, making it possible, even for an average person to understand and assimilate the meaning of human life in its totality.
All multiple religious & spiritual traditions that emerged and evolved in the Indian subcontinent... more All multiple religious & spiritual traditions that emerged and evolved in the Indian subcontinent since antiquity, tantra or tantrism is probably the only tradition that evokes skepticism due to the profanity and notoriety attached to it. The western scholars describe it as pagan, indigenous, pre-Aryan, heretical, non Vedic etc. It is generally considered antithetical to the metaphysical & speculative Vedanta tradition, the emotionally charged Bhakti tradition and the heterodox, ascetic & monastic, Jainism and Buddhism. This is a gross misconstrual and misinterpretation of tantra. The followers of Hinduism, Jainism & Buddhism are not even aware that many of their regular religious and spiritual practices have originated from tantra. Tantra, in fact is a syncretic theological doctrine which amalgamates much of the spiritual knowledge hitherto discovered and practiced in the Indian subcontinent.
The world today is undergoing profound economic, social, and political transformations based on t... more The world today is undergoing profound economic, social, and political transformations based on the 'Knowledge Economy', that depends upon the creation and application of new knowledge. Such an economy demands highly educated people with innovative ideas and skills of application. To produce such personnel is the responsibility of higher education system of a country. Subsequently, a worldwide boom in the demand of higher education is observed, which has resulted in massification of higher education. This has significantly changed the demographics of the student Population worldwide. Such a demographic change in the student population has far and wide impact not only on the structure and types of Universities, patterns of funding higher education and curricula but international relations as well. The present paper attempts to discuss the changing demographic patterns of the global student population, its implications and suggest future directions to adapt to this transformat...
Information and communication technology (ICT) has become a prominent part of education and offer... more Information and communication technology (ICT) has become a prominent part of education and offers numerous means of improving teaching and learning in the classroom. However, the tendency to take the teacher education curriculum for granted and the assumption that it adequately prepares teachers for the integration of ICT into their teaching practice need to be questioned. Recent studies on technology have shifted from the emphasis on technology skills alone to integrating pedagogy and content with technology, which is termed technological pedagogical content knowledge (TPACK). Deeper understanding of how TPACK can be cultivated is needed. This design-based research explored how a problem-based learning approach can help pre-service language teachers to develop TPACK and impact their teaching practices. Data was collected via self-progress surveys, ICT-mediated language lesson plans, reflections by the pre-service teachers, student-produced artefacts, records of instructional desig...
The followers of Sanātan dharma (termed as Hinduism by the Western scholars) visit temples, the s... more The followers of Sanātan dharma (termed as Hinduism by the Western scholars) visit temples, the sacred space, often habitually as a religious tradition received under their cultural heritage, oblivious of the many subtle and significant meanings conveyed through the temple architecture, the divine images and sacred rituals taking place within the temple premises. The present paper attempts to highlight how a temple embodies the fundamental and perennial values and the world view of Sanātan dharma. A Temple encompasses all the dimensions of human life; the physical, the material, the communitarian, the spiritual and the transcendental into a single composite form. It beautifully and aesthetically translates the four goals of Indic life i.e. Dharma, Artha, Kāma and Mokṣa, making it possible, even for an average person to understand and assimilate the meaning of human life in its totality.
All multiple religious & spiritual traditions that emerged and evolved in the Indian subcontinent... more All multiple religious & spiritual traditions that emerged and evolved in the Indian subcontinent since antiquity, tantra or tantrism is probably the only tradition that evokes skepticism due to the profanity and notoriety attached to it. The western scholars describe it as pagan, indigenous, pre-Aryan, heretical, non Vedic etc. It is generally considered antithetical to the metaphysical & speculative Vedanta tradition, the emotionally charged Bhakti tradition and the heterodox, ascetic & monastic, Jainism and Buddhism. This is a gross misconstrual and misinterpretation of tantra. The followers of Hinduism, Jainism & Buddhism are not even aware that many of their regular religious and spiritual practices have originated from tantra. Tantra, in fact is a syncretic theological doctrine which amalgamates much of the spiritual knowledge hitherto discovered and practiced in the Indian subcontinent.
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