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Commencement of CUBE National Meet at Somaiya College, 2023

CUBE National Meet, 2023 was organized in collaboration with K J Somaiya College of Science and Commerce, Somaiya Vidyavihar, Mumbai 1, and Somaiya Center for Experiential Learning (SCEL) between 20th & 23rd July 2023 at Somaiya Vidyavihar Campus. The event included 2-days workshop and a 2-days National meet. The participants from across different parts of the country which included… Read More »

CUBE National Meet 2023

Kishore Bharati in collaboration with K.J Somaiya College of Science & Commerce and Somaiya Centre for Experiential Learning (SCEL), Somaiya Vidyavihar University presents CUBE National Meet 2023, with the theme, ‘Re-imagining Biology Education and Research: Connecting CUBE Home Labs and CUBE Hubs through gully cricket model of doing science’ We are excited to announce our… Read More »

Chintan Shivir a critical reflection session on re-imagining education

On the occasion of 50 years celebration of Kishore Bharati organization, a two day critical reflection session (Chintan Shivir) is organized by in association with Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Pune on reimagining education, in the context of resolving the dilemmas and paradoxes of current education, and its role in a democratic republic. Two observations we… Read More »

Education and the Constitution Talks at IISER, Pune

Prof. Anil Sadgopal presented his series of talks at IISER Pune organized by Disha organization on the occasion of 75th anniversary of Independence Day . The first talk was delivered on 17th August, 2022 on the theme, ‘Pre-Independence Discourse: Laying the foundation for the constitutional vision of education‘ The Video of talk is available on… Read More »

Paper on Work and Education presented at AIPSN Conference, Bhopal

The paper was written by Prof.Anil Sadgopal for presentation at 17th All India People’s Science Network Conference organized in Bhopal from 6th to 9th June, 2022. The paper was read in workshop at AIPSN conference which was participated by Kishore Bharati members Prof. Arunan and Prof. G.Nagarjuna. The paper gives a brief introduction on the… Read More »

Celebrating CUBE Home Labs Anniversary: Home Labs are Possible

CUBE entered into its 3rd year of continuation of Home Lab movement, on this occasion an event was planned to celebrate Home Labs with presentations by Cubists of Elphinstone college, Mumbai. Several model systems like Earthworm, Hydra, Fruit Fly, Moina, Phyllanthus and so on were presented by Cubists, and it was presentated how these model… Read More »

Fruit-fly food menu has one more addition

By Abhijeet Singh, Saida Sayyed and Smiti 13th November 2021 The story of the new BPCV (Banana, Potato, Custard apple, Vinegar) media for culturing Fruitfly in home labs is very interesting!Smiti, a first-year B.Sc student from Elphinstone college, Mumbai wanted to study the life-cycle of fruitflies for which she needed to culture them in her… Read More »

Hoshangabad Science Teaching Program

By Anil Sadgopal 17th October 2021 1972 में मित्र मंडल केंद्र रसूलिया और किशोर भारती के संयुक्त प्रयास से मध्य प्रदेश के होशंगाबाद जिले के सोलह सरकारी उत्तर-प्राथमिक (मिडिल) स्कूलों में विज्ञान शिक्षण को गतिविधि-आधारित बनाने तथा स्थानीय परिवेश से जोड़ने का प्रयोग शुरू हुआ। अगले पांच वर्षों तक दिल्ली विश्वविद्यालय के कई वरिष्ठ विज्ञान शिक्षकों और उनके शोध विद्यार्थियों की पूरी एक टीम एवं टाटा आधारभूत शोध संस्थान (टाटा इंस्टिच्यूट आफ फंडामेंटल रिसर्च), मुंबई, और इंडियन इंस्टीट्यूट ऑफ टेक्नॉलाजी, कानपुर, जैसी अन्य संस्थाओं के वैज्ञानिकों की मदद से रूढ़िगत विज्ञान शिक्षण को बदलने की एक साहसिक प्रक्रिया शुरू हुई। इस प्रक्रिया में स्कूली शिक्षकों एवं बच्चों की भागीदारी बढ़ाने के ऐतिहासिक अनुभव प्राप्त किए गए। इस अनुभव को स्वयंसेवी मंच से सरकारी शिक्षा तंत्र में हस्तक्षेप के प्रयोग के रूप में व्यापक मान्यता मिली। 1978 में इन दोनों संस्थाओं ने जिले के सभी 220 उत्तर-प्राथमिक स्कूलों में विज्ञान शिक्षण के इस नए स्वरूप के अनुसार तंत्रगत ढांचे और प्रक्रियाएं खड़ा करने का काम भी किया। इस जिला स्तरीय प्रसार के कुछ महीने पहले पांच साल के अनुभव पर एक विहंगम दृष्टि डालने वाला यह विवरण ‘होविशिका’ (होशंगाबाद विज्ञान शिक्षण कार्यक्रम) की ओर से किशोर भारती की चार-सदस्यीय टीम द्वारा दर्ज किया गया था। मध्य प्रदेश के होशंगाबाद जिले में काम कर रही मित्र मंडल केंद्र रसूलिया एवं किशोर भारती नामक दो स्वैच्छिक संस्थाओं ने विगत पांच वर्षों में जिले के सोलह ग्रामीण मिडिल स्कूलों में विज्ञान शिक्षण के क्षेत्र में पथ प्रदर्शक प्रयोग किए हैं। इन प्रयोगों में उन स्कूलों के शिक्षक और बच्चे सहभागी बने। इस पहलकदमी की आधारशिला गतिविधि-आधारित शिक्षण है। इसमें बच्चे निष्क्रिय होकर केवल व्याख्यान सुनते रहने के बजाए सक्रिय रूप से ज्ञान के सृजन में हिस्सेदारी करते हैं। लेकिन बहुत जल्द ही हमने अनुभव किया कि यदि इस शैक्षिक नवाचार को करते हुए सामाजिक-आर्थिक कारकों को ध्यान में नहीं रखा गया तो ये विचार आकर्षक मुहावरे मात्र बनकर रह जाएंगे।