Education in love in place of fear

I once saw in a temple in the East a three-headed God representing love, hatred and peace; and on asking which of the three was the most worshiped, I was informed that hatred got the bulk of the offerings. It was not that the people desired to hate, but the fear of the hatred of others made them desire to propitiate the evil genius.

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Jeanne Mansoor is waiting to hear from you...

Long years ago, when I was understudy to Manik De Silva at the Sunday Island, Nihal Fernando, a photographer and one who was always intensely passionate about things Sri Lankan, suggested that I arrange for a series of pieces, either as articles or interviews, on how Sri Lanka could be turned around.

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Learner - learning: New approach

School and cluster-based teacher-development programs:

The other significant facet is in the philosophy of education: constructivist approach (considering that knowledge and learning as dynamic because individually learners understand matters in their unique ways and create their own and new knowledge without ignoring importance of knowing facts and information) in preference to positivist approach (thinking that knowledge as stable and relatively fixed by knowing particular canons of fixed knowledge as the basis for learning while paying less attention on constructive criticism and creating new knowledge as each learner wishes using commonalities in the target input).

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