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The biggest fear we usually confront in our life is of committing any mistake or making any error in whatever we do. From our childhood, we are taught to identify correct actions with positive response and mistakes with negative response such as admonition, punishment as negative response to any mistake made, with the intention of making the child learn to try not to make the mistake or any other mistake for that matter, ever again. This instills an inherent fear of making mistake and makes us miss out on the scope to learn from the mistake and gain experience. We invariably become prisoners of the fear of committing any mistake. This fear is reinforced when a child has to face the process of Examination or Test to evaluate his success in achieving the learning objectives. Failure associated with the process of Examination has a social stigma attached to it, which augments the child's fear of mistakes and failure. The fear of failure or committing mistake has a negative ...

RATIONALE: Case studies can be used to educate both the school teachers as well as school students. Aman was a young man of twenty-four years, who was a postgraduate in Economics and was looking for employment. His couple of stints with local BPO organisations had left him disillusioned, that he had taken a step as harsh as cutting his academic certificates into pieces; overpowered by the resentment that the values and beliefs he learnt from home and in course of his formal education was a total waste at the workplace. Being the only son of his salaried parents, who had reached the age of retirement from their government service, made him gather himself up and look out for employment. After, many futile attempts to get employment, he eventually got the job in a charity school of a temporary school teacher on a year’s contract, as he was not a qualified teacher. On the first day at the school, when Aman approached the classroom of Form Four, he w...

                                        (This is my first attempt in doodling using oil colour pastels.) The latest trend or let us put it this way, the obsession of selfie: taking the photograph of oneself using mobile phones has even cost many youngsters their own precious life. No, this is not the subject of this write-up. The purpose of this write-up is how one can increase one's power of concentration, the span of attention, take control of own mind by de-cluttering all the thoughts that crowd the mind to eventually cause mental stress, physical fatigue leaving one emotionally drained out. Selfie Mode of mind management is an effective way to take care of the following issues you may experience: ·        Mind is always crowded with thoughts a...

On the stormy evening of November 21, 2015, I decided to walk down the memory lane with the movie, Mary Poppins, one of my favourite childhood books and movie. As a child, I had enjoyed the movie’s narrative, its special effects and its song and dance. While watching the movie again after a span of forty years, I found that I was able to relate it to many aspects of my life and even as an adult, realise its relevance in my personal as well as professional life. While watching the movie I thought, use of movie clips as a tool in training sessions is quite popular both with the learners and the trainers/facilitators. So is the use of fairy tales not only in schools, but also in corporate training. So, why not use a complete movie in experiential form of learning both for the children as well as the adult learners?  This very reason has inspired me to write this post. Story or theme based experiential learning through a movie, where the learner group first goes through the l...