Teaching for social change

During my journey between Purola and Uttarkashi, on the ever winding roads of Uttarakhand, my colleague asked questions about our approach to teacher capacity enhancement. One question that occupied more than half the time of our discussion was: “How would teaching maths or science or social sciences or language improve society — which is the final objective of education?” We concluded that it is not merely the teaching of these subjects but how they are taught, keeping in mind the purpose of teaching them and how they are integrated in our day-to-day life, that would contribute to education and society being better.