1st Edition
A Learning Community of Reflective Teachers From Whispers to Resonance
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgements
SECTION 1
From Teachers to Change Agents
1 Teacher Development
Neeraja Raghavan
2 Teachers as Change Agents
Neeraja Raghavan
SECTION 2
A Learning Community That Strives To Effect A Change: Compilation of Research Papers by Members of LCoRPs
3 Re-designing the Learning Environment in Kindergarten through Reflection, Collaboration and Teacher Ownership
Nandashree Natarajan and Anne Isaac
4 Turning Second Graders into Autonomous Learners – A Teacher’s Action Research
Krithika Bharath
5 Aligning Teacher Development and Agency with School Vision: An Action Research Study
Vidhya Nagaraj
6 The Road Less Travelled: Developing Critical Thinking in Children from Marginalized Communities through Picture Books
Nivedita Vijay Bedadur and Anita Butani
7 Breaking Teacher Silos and Enabling Cross Pollination
Madhusree Dutta Majumdar
8 A Storyteller’s Journey into the Teacher’s Mind and Heart
Deeptha Vivekanand
9 Turning Passive Middle Schoolers into Self-Driven Learners through Action Research
Ganga Sundar
10 Building an Ecosystem of Empathy between Students and Support Staff in School
Swati Gautam
SECTION 3
A New Model of Teacher Development
11 A Pandemic of Pedagogical Transformation
Neeraja Raghavan
Biography
Neeraja Raghavan is a teacher-educator and Founder-Director of Thinking Teacher, based in Bangalore, India. She is the author of several books, including Teaching Tales Learning Trails (co-authored with Vineeta Sood and Kamala Anilkumar, Notion Press 2018), The Reflective Teacher (Contributing Editor Vineeta Sood, Orient Blackswan, 2015), The Reflective Learner (Notion Press 2019) and co-editor (with Sarojini Vittachi) of Alternative Schooling in India (SAGE Publications, 2008). She enjoys music, philosophy, poetry, sketching, writing and embroidery.
