Time to integrate pedagogy with technology, says Rajan Gurukkal
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‘Kerala needs maverick teachers for making creative use of techno-pedagogy during pandemic times’
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‘Kerala needs maverick teachers for making creative use of techno-pedagogy during pandemic times’
The use of up-to-date techno-pedagogy is the only solution to tide over the pandemic-induced crisis in the higher education sector, Rajan Gurukkal P.M., Vice Chairman of the Kerala State Higher Education Council, has said.
A day after the Left Front government assumed office in Kerala, Prof. Gurukkal said the pandemic was likely to continue for another year, and implementing up-to-date techno-pedagogy was the only solution to handle the crisis.
‘Hero stone’ found in old trade path on Western Ghats
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The stone, depicting an armed man on an elephant, discovered at Chathurangapara
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The stone, depicting an armed man on an elephant, discovered at Chathurangapara A one-foot-tall ‘hero stone’ depicting a man atop an elephant, was recently discovered at Chathurangapara near Nedumkandam on the Western Ghats. The area is rich in archaeological findings. Earlier, a large burial urn was unearthed from Hydermettu, near Nedumkandam, and a number of menhirs were found on a hill slope at Santhanpara, 30 km from Nedumkandam.
According to the members of the Archaeological and Historical Conservation Forum in Nedumkandam who discovered the stone, it is for the first time in south India that a clear image of a hero atop an elephant has been found. ‘Hero stones’ mark the valiant death of a person in a battle.
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Most new parties are not parties but gangs that split voters on sentiments
“Most new parties are not parties but gangs that fragment voters on sentiments,” says Rajan Gurukkal P.M., historian and Vice Chairman of the Kerala State Higher Education Council.
“Democracy fails when people are fragmented by multiple sentimental identities along castes, communities, religions, localities, etc. They become apolitical gangs, rather than political parties. Gangs may gain reputation based on what they provide others,” Prof. Gurukkal told
The Hindu on Wednesday.
He was responding to a question on whether the gradual acceptance of apolitical parties such as the Twenty20 was an indicator that the mainstream political parties had left gaps in governance model and failed to take up corruption as a key component of their political discourse.