More on the theme of learning at home … as homeschoolers we liked to say, “but we are never at home. The whole world is our learning environment.” Honestly quarantine would have been harder for us as homeschoolers than it is now that our (not so) little one is a school-goer.
Living through a pandemic that can be seen from space, we know these times are historic. What times are not?
“Trails to the Past” originally appeared in Teacher Plus Magazine, October 2013.
The ordinary apparatus of historiography is most at ease when made to operate on those larger phenomena that visibly stick out of the debris of the past. A critical historiography can make up for this lacuna by bending closer to the ground in order to pick up the traces. – Ranajit Guha1
On the ground in Pondur, picking off layers like puzzle pieces.
