How is language taught in school?
About Amukta Mahapatra: Long term educationist, worked with David Horsburgh. Taught at Neel Bagh and other alternative education centers and teacher training programs. Ex-Principal of Abacus, an alternative school. Also worked with the Krishnamurthy foundations schools. More recently part of Schoolscape: an organization that works with the government schools to improve schooling environment from lessons learnt in the alternative schools. She talked about Neel Bagh one of the early alternative schools (Presentation Link). Things to ponder over: * Every movement is not an activity * Every activity is not learning an activity needs a prerequisite to become learning. E.g. Dancing with music is an activity, but if the dancing is not in sync with the music then the activity is not learning. Another example is if you enjoy cooking, in your space (say your house) you know what is where and the activity is smooth and nice, the point of contact between the music or learning and the person then l
