Constituency Served

children who do not fit into normal schools; street and working children; children with disability; formal and non-formal settings

Details of Work

Ms K T Margaret is interested in teaching - how to help a child learn concepts and apply them in everyday life, and how to provide a base which will enable the child to discover and learn new knowledge. She has worked with children in various settings - at nursery, primary and high school, and with slum and village children. She has also worked with teacher trainees. Her teaching years were the basis of her personal research into how and what children learn, which is documented in her book, `The Open Classroom'. She currently works with two young children attending an English medium school. She guides and supports a group of interested teachers who teach children in the slums of Bangalore and in villages near Raichur, Bijapur and Mysore.