Arundhati Mitter, Executive Director at Flow India, has for the span of last 6 years kept a close watch on how global educational frameworks can be adapted to the context of Indian learning ecosystems. Here, she reflects on India’s decision to end its PISA boycott and enter the fray in 2021. — The Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) is a triennial survey that evaluates education systems worldwide by testing the skills and knowledge of 15-year-old students who are nearing the end of their compulsory education. …

Sarvesh Srinivasan, Executive Director at GEAR Foundation that manages Bangalore’s premium GEAR Innovative Intl. School, spoke to Flow about his work, vision, thoughts for the future of learning and what schools look for when they work with culture partners. On challenges to setting up the school Most of my childhood, age 9 onwards, was centered around my…

Bangalore based Lekha Naidu, theatre practitioner, educator, arts administrator, and photographer, who has assisted Flow team in delivering quite a few programmes in the city, shares her thoughts on implementation of museum education outreach workshops at MAP (Museum of Art and Photography) and the value she sees in arts education. …

Mihir Dhar Prabhu, a theatre artist who doubled up as a voiceover artist for the Culture Connectors project, shares his thoughts on the value of virtual reality-based learning applications Mihir works as an educator focusing in the field of arts. He is also a theatre artist and director, who is…

Flow project liaison and operations-in-charge, Bani Maini and administrator, Waseem Saifi share their thoughts, ideas, and learnings on coordinating and implementing Flow City School Project last year Flow City School Project (CSP) is designed to foster in K12 learners an interest in a city’s cultural and historical ecosystem. The project…

Notes from working with English and Social Sciences teachers of Bal Bharati School, Rewa In the last two years of designing and implementing training workshops for English and Social Sciences teachers from classes 3–5 at Bal Bharati School, Flow team has had a unique opportunity to explore and address the…

UNESCO’s Mahatma Gandhi Institute for Education & Peace invited Professor Richard Davidson an American neuroscientist and psychologist to talk about the Centre for Healthy Mind’s research on how ‘well-being is a skill’. Well-being was discussed as a state of being comprised of a set of skills, which can be learnt…

‘The spontaneous emergence of order at critical points of instability is one of the most important concepts of the new understanding of life — referred to simply as emergence. It has been recognised as the dynamic origin of development, learning and evolution. …

Social sciences teachers from Delhi participate in Flow’s popular teacher training programme on using museums as active sites for out-of-classroom learning October 30 saw the Flow team deliver its 6th edition of the unique teacher training master class that focuses on object-based-learning in museum sites, delivered to 30 social sciences teachers from around Delhi. The package designed around history and art galleries of National Museum activates the museum’s collections and ties them firmly with curriculum themes within social sciences.