Self-Paced Learning for Primary School
Kishore (1986) holds that primary school children should be given the freedom to learn at their own paces. Moreover, the self-pacing procedure has a social pedagogy dimension to it since bright...
View ArticleInformation System and Educational Management
According to Kishore (2000), an information system of an educational intervention must have the format to capture to capture information on 4 indicators each related to input, process and output. The...
View ArticleToys and Process-Based Physics Learning at Elementary School Level:...
Kishore (2002) tried out physics learning through toys at elementry school level involving 20 students of a small rural school and found that when concepts when related with material manipulation and...
View ArticleTeaching mathematics for positive attitudes
Kishore (1993) feels that math techr should try to foster favorable attitudes towards the subject and claim to enjoy mathematics. Specially, for girls sex-role stereotyping of mathematics should be...
View ArticleA plea for activity books for children
Kishore (1994) advocates the use of activity sheets created by teachers for appropriate portions of the textbooksto learn both content and processes at the same time. Some activities can be carry-home...
View ArticleMinimum levels of learning and quality
Kishore (1994) found that in the mainstream schools when curriculum is structured in the form of competency statements or minimum levels of learning (MLLs), the achievement scores become the quality...
View ArticleThe law of conservation of momentum with a bang
Kishore (1974) describes the experiment of two exploding cans on friction-compensated wires moving in opposite directions as conservation of momentum. For causing explosion acetylene gas from calcium...
View ArticleOn making inservice training more effective
According to Kishore (1994); inservice training should be needs-based with needs being converted into specific objectives, the session should be teacher-centered to develop their competencies and...
View ArticleClassroom fear-freeness scale and action research
Kishore (2007) proposes that as a part of improving social pedagogy of the classroom, the teacher as a classroom practitioner, must construct a simple few-item scale to measure fear-freeness of the...
View ArticlePopulation as subject
Kishore (2019) feels that the best way to introduce population education at the primary education level is to integrate and infuse population issue in the environmental studies curriculum.
View Article“Let us Learn English Workbooks” for grades one and two for small rural schools
Kishore (2019) experimented successfully with micro-learning based workbooks for teaching of English by combining the listening, speaking, reading and witting skills with cognitive or thinking skills.
View ArticleSurya namaskar can work as therapeutic intervention for motor development of...
Kishore (2019) suggests the use of Surya Namaskar or Sun Salutation yoga as therapeutic intervention for children with learning disabilities for their motor development under the supervision of a...
View ArticleSigning and picture exchange communication can work well for autistic non
On the basis of an overview, Kishore (2019) observes hat for verbal children with learning disabilities, singing and picture exchange technique can be used for improving their memory and recall.
View ArticleEmphasize visual strategies and visual skills training of teachers and...
Emphasize visual strategies and visual skills training of teachers and special educators for effective learning by young learners
View ArticleOn preventing obsolescence in teaching
Kishore (1973) holds that education and learning are on-going processes and a teacher who becomes slave to the mechanical aspects of teaching and learning soon becomes obsolete. He suggests that...
View ArticleA comparative study of attention response of students with respect various...
According to Kishore and Mehndiratta (1973) , a pedagogical experiment of teaching methods on grade VIII students for physics instruction was tried out which revealed that out of four methods students...
View ArticleUsing non-visual illustrations for primary pupils
Kishore (1993) on the basis of the training of primary teachers in material manipulation and use of non-visual illustrations, concludes that primary teachers significantly preferred concrete...
View ArticleClassroom exercise in generative thinking process
Kishore and Selvanathan (1993) found that when children are afforded multi-track thinking opportunity, their generative thinking skill enhances significantly and eventually, it leads to better search...
View ArticleOn using focus group in group-interview and brainstorming formats as...
Kishore (2019) suggests that focus groups can also be used for generation of diverse ideas in the form of brainstorming. However, the two formats of the focus group require trained moderator with...
View ArticleI’m Chowkidar: New lingo, idioms and feelings
Kishore (2019) as a satire reports that one can find interesting posts centered on the word ‘chowkidar’ in social media – facebook and blogs – many very subtle and other very crude. Two parallel...
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