Educationwriter

Welcome to my blog. In this blog, I share my views mainly on issues related to Hinduism and K-12 Education. Sometimes I write on political issues related to human welfare and socio-economic development. I hope that you find my blog interesting. Thanks.

28 April 2012

Sacred music via Soundcloud

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I don't have much time to write any post this weekend too. However I am driven by a desire to write after checking my email inbox a few...
22 April 2012

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As I didn't have much time to spare this weekend, I couldn't write any new post. I hope to write next weekend. Thanks for visiting ...
17 April 2012

Quality aspects of School Education in India

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The Right to Education Act which came into being two  years back, and the recent Supreme Court ruling seem to  have generated a lot of disc...
14 April 2012

Off the beaten track: Saturday musing

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On a Sunday in the 1960s when I was studying in the middle school, as I was fiddling the knob of our `radio' (a common household gadget...
13 April 2012

Hans and his hands-on science teacher training

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This evening it was nice to see an interesting email from my friend Hans (about whom I mentioned in my previous post). He still travels t...
11 April 2012

Off the beaten track: Email from friend

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This morning it was nice to receive an email (in response to my Easter greeting) from my good friend Hans (about whom I wrote in my post da...
08 April 2012

Off the beaten track: Secure homes and social schools

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One of the very few columns which are of interest to me in `THE HINDU’ is `OPEN PAGE’, as many of the articles in the column are thought p...
06 April 2012

Hanumad jayanthi

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According to Maadhwaa calender, today (Chaithra Shukla Pournimaa) is the birthday of Hanumaan, the greatest devotee of Shree Raam, an Ava...
04 April 2012

Shakespeare and senior citizens of Chennai

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Though I have never liked to read about politics and cinema, like many people of my age, I am unable to give up the habit of reading the ...
03 April 2012

Off the beaten track: Digital magazine from the Druk kingdom

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This morning I had the pleasure of visiting  DRUKPA , a digital magazine from one of my favourite countries. Pages of the magazine took me ...
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Guruprasad Panamalai
Kumbakonam , Tamilnadu, India
I am a retired K-12 Education Management Professional. I have worked at different levels in K-12 school systems, textbook publishing, elearning and Education NGOs. I have held memberships in The Association for Science Education (UK), American Association of Physics Teachers and The Malaysian Institute of Physics. I hold a 1st class B Sc Degree in Physics followed by B Ed [English and Physical Science] and M A [Childcare and Education] degrees. My published works include 59 articles in teacher development magazines in India and the US and a book entitled `Creative Classrooms and Child Friendly Schools' (listed in Amazon). This book is almost an anecdotal account of my professional experience in six countries (including Cambodia where I worked as Technical Adviser to the Ministry of Education, Youth And Sports). I served as mentor in the Certificate of Teaching Mastery Program offered by Teachers Without Borders.
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