Learning and Education

Learning processes focusing on ethics, sustainability, equity, and well-being

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This section features stories of initiatives to create spaces and opportunities for learning and education that enable continued or renewed connection with the environment and nature, with one’s community, and with humanity as a whole. These are stories of efforts to nurture a fuller range of collective and individual potentials and relationships, stories of unlearning the alienating, individualizing ‘education’ that mainstream institutions have been giving, stories where the formal and the informal, the traditional and modern, the local and global, are synergized. Initiatives ensuring accountability of the state’s responsibility towards citizens in education would also be covered.

The jungle man of Coimbatore

Did you know that the elephants as they migrate also bring a variety of plants from another region?

A day in Delhi’s under-the-bridge school for the poor

Pupils at the free school under the bridge are mostly the children of migrant workers, labourers, and seasonal farmers living in nearby slums.

This Indian student’s video on climate change won a global competition

Adarsh Prathap underlines the importance of mangroves and shows how their conservation can save thousands of lives

This MBA dropout went on a year-long journey documenting the lives of 52 innovators across India

Rahul captured each of these stories and experiences on visual stills and film. He also connected with people on social media platforms

Toor de Force in Ragi Fields

Students have learnt about types of soil, nutrition, setting up a drip irrigation system and figured out that planting marigold repels insects

How skateboarding brings social change in Madhya Pradesh village

The skatepark had just two rules—“Girls first” and “No school, no skateboarding”—the rest was left up to the kids.

Practising Ecological Sustainability at School

With a staggering 225 KW rooftop solar plant, the school is completely self-reliant when it comes to electricity. Even their lifts operate on Solar Power.

Questioning the consumption based developmental paradigm

Taking up personal and social initiatives in order to create awareness and reduce environmental impact...

This Himachal teenager is bringing the forests back, his dream is 1 billion trees

“Because of him, the number of students doing voluntary tree plantation has almost doubled,”