Gadagkar, R (2009) Foreword. [Book Chapter]
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Abstract
If a student is found looking out of the window rather than listening to the teacher, this would be a bad sign in a maths class but not necessarily so in a biology class! This is especially true in India where biology, which is supposed to be the study of living organisms, has been degraded into the study of preserved, dead specimens under the best of conditions, and into the study of caricatures drawn with a chalk on the blackboard in the worst of conditions. This has to change. At least half the biology classes in all our schools and colleges should be held not in the confines of the classroom but out in nature, in gardens, on the roadside, in open scrubland, in the forest, on the banks of streams and lakes, anywhere in the outdoors. Here the teachers and students should together learn to locate, identify, observe and develop a relationship with worms and insects, butterflies and wasps, frogs and snakes, birds and bats, herbs and shrubs, lichen and fungi, trees, flowers and fruits ...
| Item Type: | Book Chapter |
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| Publisher: | Rishi Valley Education Centre |
| Keywords: | Insect taxonomy, Biology of insects, Checklist of insects |
| Department/Centre: | Division of Biological Sciences > Centre for Ecological Sciences |
| Date Deposited: | 23 Mar 2021 06:31 |
| Last Modified: | 23 Mar 2021 06:31 |
| URI: | http://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/68310 |
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