Tri Pramana Values in Educational Pedagogy

Evolving Educational Pedagogy in Developing Nations

The developing countries of the world face many major social challenges, among these challenges is education. It seems that the tendency would be to merely transport current educational pedagogy to these developing nations. But the existing pedagogy primarily fosters the development of ruled-based thinking, which will not suffice given the demands of the current day. Thus a new model for educat...

Feminist Pedagogy and Education in Values

The Educational Pedagogy of the Four Sons

The Passover Haggadah speaks about the four sons-the wise, simple, etc. Using a method of biblical exegesis suggested by Rabbi Joseph Baer Soloveitchik, it is shown that these four sons implicitly define a twodimensional learning model in which learners are classified in the dimensions of knowledge [details-simple] and respect [apathy-wickedness]. This biblical multidimensional learning model i...

Mental Discipline and Educational Values

great an undertaking in hand, it is just as well that Mr. Heck puts himself on the safe side by adding, "The problems of mental discipline are too unsettled at present for anyone to be dogmatic or to attempt more than brief suggestions." The author's secondary purpose is "to sum up and organize the discussions and experiments," and this he has done most ably. He remarks, "In class discussion of...

Values in Student Teachers’ Educational Practice

A qualitative, quasi-experimental study is described that had the aim to illuminate, by focussing the classroom dialogue, the relation between student teachers’ explicit and implicit values. Two groups of students participated in inquiries about the character of the classroom dialogue. The experimental group also participated in an intervention. The intervention implied that the students were t...