Viplavah -Urmilla Devi Dasi
HpS - ASA - Follows our letter in response to Urmilla Devi Dasi's article on the Philosophy of Education for the next issue of 'Viplavah'.
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HpS - Hare Krsna! Thank you all very much. We just got back from an intense tour of Australia and two one hour sessions with Prana Das.
Now we are in Kolkata and looks like we shall be able to get some good work done.
On this tour we met and have corresponded with Bala-govinda Das of Pune and have considerable confidence in him as an editor for this much needed ISKCON book on Phil. Ed.
We will see him here in the next few days and can probably get some more things nailed down on the book.
We read the attached article to our great delight and several things stand out.
1. This is a big task, the 'Philosophy of Education' and this article for 'Viplavah' can serve very well in that development.
2. It is an extremely important task. Our community, ISKCON, are very often people who can apply intelligent ideas in practical life.
3. As Acting Editor for this issue (and why not have others be Acting Editor for following issues (as we look for an Editor with a One Year Contract)) I think the article is fine to be published as it is but ...
Seems it needs a header that will give little introduction to the Author, explains that it is an extract from a longer Phil. of Ed. that is xxx (30-pages?) long, Section Headings are put in with an informal Table of them at the front. It seems that definite topics are being handles eg. Teacher Qualification, so just put a Section Heading. If you all can do this and even then edit it a little bit as you put those Headers in that would be great, or our Editorial Staff of Apes and Goats can do it here.
4. How to contact and serve the Author's service.
5. There are no direct citations from ISO nor BG, so maybe just a word that this is a very camera-flash summary, taste, of the real work where the refined relationship with Sastra is presented.
6. The audience seems to be self declared in the beginning as "Vedic Learners", which I guess would also give us followers of other Indian traditions and even Buddhists, but the definition of terms within the article seems that it is being written for a wider audience. Our article starts with the perspective of the Britannica and the history of Phil. Ed. in the West as a perspective.
Does your final article relate the material to Western educators such as Piaget et al?
7. I will write the 'Message from the Editor' after all the material is assembled and can include some little comments on the article like these there.
8. We have several comments that are related to specific content. Very stimulating article and topic.
Only one line is so unclear to us that we want ask for clarification: "Any learning that cannot...". Do you mean to drop the 'Any', and include topics outside the nine processes in education?
Now we are in Kolkata and looks like we shall be able to get some good work done.
On this tour we met and have corresponded with Bala-govinda Das of Pune and have considerable confidence in him as an editor for this much needed ISKCON book on Phil. Ed.
We will see him here in the next few days and can probably get some more things nailed down on the book.
We read the attached article to our great delight and several things stand out.
1. This is a big task, the 'Philosophy of Education' and this article for 'Viplavah' can serve very well in that development.
2. It is an extremely important task. Our community, ISKCON, are very often people who can apply intelligent ideas in practical life.
3. As Acting Editor for this issue (and why not have others be Acting Editor for following issues (as we look for an Editor with a One Year Contract)) I think the article is fine to be published as it is but ...
Seems it needs a header that will give little introduction to the Author, explains that it is an extract from a longer Phil. of Ed. that is xxx (30-pages?) long, Section Headings are put in with an informal Table of them at the front. It seems that definite topics are being handles eg. Teacher Qualification, so just put a Section Heading. If you all can do this and even then edit it a little bit as you put those Headers in that would be great, or our Editorial Staff of Apes and Goats can do it here.
4. How to contact and serve the Author's service.
5. There are no direct citations from ISO nor BG, so maybe just a word that this is a very camera-flash summary, taste, of the real work where the refined relationship with Sastra is presented.
6. The audience seems to be self declared in the beginning as "Vedic Learners", which I guess would also give us followers of other Indian traditions and even Buddhists, but the definition of terms within the article seems that it is being written for a wider audience. Our article starts with the perspective of the Britannica and the history of Phil. Ed. in the West as a perspective.
Does your final article relate the material to Western educators such as Piaget et al?
7. I will write the 'Message from the Editor' after all the material is assembled and can include some little comments on the article like these there.
8. We have several comments that are related to specific content. Very stimulating article and topic.
Only one line is so unclear to us that we want ask for clarification: "Any learning that cannot...". Do you mean to drop the 'Any', and include topics outside the nine processes in education?
Thank you. So far the Journal has received a lot of reaction, mostly asking for more, but some offering suggestions for direction and limits.