Call for Articles: Ethical Responsibilities of Academicians
Confluence invites articles from its readers on the moral/ethical duties and responsibilities of academicians towards their profession, the student community and society at large.
Month: February 2020
Where mediocres fear to tread
Let students think. Let them make their own choice. Do not ridicule their dissent as ‘dirty politics’. Of course, they have to know that violence in any form is disallowed. But to the intelligent, physical violence is redundant anyway.
Towards an Academia of Empathy: Political Unrests and Mental Health
When the market logic of customer-service provider creeps into higher education, the pressure to constantly be productive in a circumstance where your basic existence as a student is under threat due to political reasons becomes a mental burden.
Workshop on Building STS Pedagogies in India (March 13-14, 2020)
How should undergraduate science and technology education in India evolve in order to meet the challenges of the future? There has been considerable thought in this direction in the past few decades, resulting various steps like the inclusion of humanities and social sciences in the IITs and NITs as stand-alone courses for engineering students, increase […]