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COVID – 19 and its Impact on Early Childhood Education

Nature proved its way of setting things right once again in the form of Coronavirus when humans became reckless and profligate. The world is shaken. Lockdowns have cleansed the polluted air (Watts, 2020). The vacant highways enabled wild animals to move freely and enter the cities (Conde Nast Traveller, 2020). Corona affected man’s lifestyle irrespective of his social status, gender, age, intelligence and taught the lesson of equality. The worst affected area is the education sector, especially early education.

Blended Learning in India: Are Teachers in India Ready to Go Blended?

The Internet has become an integral part of everyday life. It has changed every other field but the education system. It is more so in India (Wise & Rothman, 2010). In spite of being the seventh-largest country and having the largest child population in the world, India is nowhere in the picture as far as Blended Learning is concerned (Michael Barbour, 2006). With its innumerable problems such as lack of infrastructure, insufficiently trained teachers, high teacher absenteeism and lack of teachers’ accountability and motivation, the education system in India has poor learning outcomes (Mitra, 2010). In this scenario, Blended Learning appears to be promising for both private and government schools.

Evaluation in Montessori Classroom

Montessori Schools celebrate Graduation Days with as much pomp and grandeur as in Universities. Almost all parents will be present on the day to witness their child’s performance. However, the Graduation Day at a Montessori school is different from those of Universities and other schools. Since Montessori schools have no exams and tests, Graduation Day is an occasion for the children to showcase what they have learnt in the past three years. But the question is why there are no tests and exams in Montessori schools.

We were NOT like this!

“Today’s young people disrespect their elders. They disobey their parents. They ignore the law. They ride in the streets inflamed with wild notions. Their morals are decayed. What is to become of them?” (O’Toole, 2019). This statement is not from any of our parents but from Plato, who lived 2400 years ago. Similar words are heard through the generations. Every old generation considers the younger generation to be decidedly extravagant, relentless and dissolute compared to them and declare, “We were NOT like this!”