Quarterly Spotlight

This segment of the magazine brings together a diverse range of perspectives on contemporary education, capturing its evolving pedagogies, persistent inequities, emerging alternative pathways, and the renewed emphasis on human values. It offers a broad and reflective engagement with the changing landscape of education, highlighting both challenges and possibilities across theory, policy, and practice.

Themes

Equity by Design

Focusing on structural inequalities embedded within education systems, this theme critically engages with issues of caste, gender, geography, and disability. It analyses how policy frameworks and institutional practices can be intentionally designed to promote inclusion, ensuring equitable access, participation, and outcomes for diverse learners.

Education in Transition: Pedagogy of Possibility

This theme explores the evolution of teaching–learning practices, tracing a shift from classical dialogic approaches such as Socratic Method to contemporary models shaped by Artificial Intelligence in Education. It examines how pedagogy is becoming more adaptive, learner-centred, and technologically mediated, opening new possibilities for engagement and knowledge construction.

Re-mapping the Boundaries of Education

This theme interrogates the expanding landscape of education beyond formal institutions. It highlights alternative modes such as home-schooling, vocational pathways, and community-based learning, emphasizing how learners and families actively reshape educational spaces rather than waiting for systemic reform.

Reclaiming Human-centricity in Education

Amid increasing technologization and market orientation, this theme reflects on the need to foreground human values in education. It emphasizes relationships, emotional well-being, and ethical engagement, arguing for a rebalancing of systems to ensure that education remains deeply human-centred.