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.

Walking The World without phone and money

The two are walking 1400 km from Pondicherry to Mumbai. The walks through the villages are filled with food, fun and conversations.

Students design suspension bamboo bridge for rural folk

An affordable Bamboo-and-Rope bridge designed to carry up to 5 persons.

Igniting Young Minds: Youth Camps at Kalpavalli

Youth camps at Timbaktu Collective’s Kalpavalli programme seek to inculcate sensitivity and awareness towards nature.

Lessons from the Earth

A 22 year old quit formal education in the middle of his 12th grade in order to pursue his passion for organic farming

Recreating the joy of learning

How to create a pretty coloured leaf - how to drain out the “green” element from the leaf, and how to dry it, undamaged?

A festival to teach children croc love

The crocodile fest involved children, for the organisers believe in educating them to live harmoniously with wildlife including crocodiles.

संथाल आदिवासी बच्चों का स्कूल (in Hindi)

आदिवासी महिलाओं की उम्मीदों का स्कूल

Students are her army

A few hundred students of one or two schools would walk to the lake and water the plants, when money for having them watered ran out.

Hill community was losing touch with its language. Then it turned to Whatsapp

They share stories, poems and songs in Runglwo, giving members a chance to learn and practise the language.