Love Marriage…According to a Grade 9 Textbook
A grade 9 textbook definition of love marriage and how it is different from arranged marriage...
Teacher Education: When You Don’t Have What You Need, Make Use of What You Have
Another example of how and what a teacher uses as a teaching tool or resource is really limited only by the teacher's imagination! This is about a lesson I helped a science teacher conduct using what they had.
Nepali Teachers’ Association Starkly Lays Bare The Abysmally Poor Quality of Education in The Country
When teachers in Nepal demonstrate a severe lack of understanding of the problems plaguing our education system and their role in the system, and, worse, threatens to take action by punishing the very group (students) they are supposed to be serving...you know the quality of our education system is abysmally poor!
School Enrollment: Not Proficient Enough in English for Grade 1
One of the ways many private schools in Nepal try to mask the poor quality of education they provide: say that the education their school provide is better than other private schools. So, they require transfer students to take an admissions test and -- lo and behold! -- the child is found lacking in some academic areas and suggested to repeat the year (grade)!
Caste Hierarchy, False-equivalence Argument, and Mount Everest
When a hill so-called high caste Hindu counters a member of another caste describing the challenges in their lives because of the caste they are born into by saying that they too struggle and have had to work hard to get as far as they have gotten in life, they are basically making a false-equivalence argument. What is a false-equivalence argument anyway? I go into the details by using an analogy -- that of climbing Mount Everest.
Teacher Education: Climatic Calamity
I conducted another demonstration to a science teacher at a small private school as part of the teacher education program to show them how they can make science teaching and learning interesting and engaging. In this one I used a very topical video -- that of hurricane Dorian that had made landfall in the Bahamas just a few days before the lesson.
Teacher Education: Lesson on Natural Resources Using Magazine Cutouts
Another lesson I conducted with a grade 7 group using cutouts from magazines. The topic? Natural Resources. How and what a teacher uses as a teaching tool or resource is really limited only by the teacher's imagination, really!
Teacher Education: Engaging Climate Change Lesson Using Just Five Graphs Found on The Internet
Back in early September last year, as part of the teacher education program at a local private school, I conducted a fun and engaging lesson for grade 8 students on the topic of climate change. All I used was just some graphs that I got from the internet. Here are the details.
So You Think There is No Caste-based Discrimination in Nepal? Think Again!
Being told again and again that very little or no caste-based discrimination exists in Nepal, I started documenting, on Twitter, news reports about just that -- caste-based discrimination. The articles I shared in the tweets were mostly about discrimination and mistreatment of Dalits, the lowest caste. In this blog post, I have reproduced all the tweets in that thread.
My Movements Around the Globe
A reproduction of a page from my old homepage. Revamping the homepage, I eliminated this and many other pages but decided to kind of "archive" them by reproducing them here.
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