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.

Maker Magic

Maker spaces are drawing everyone from artists creating movie props to hobbyists making furniture and youngsters building drones and robots.

Project DEFY: A Bold Experiment in Education

Project DEFY helps communities create their own schools, where people can choose what, when and how they would like to learn.

સ્થળાંતર કરતા બાળકોની શાળાઓ (in Gujarati)

યુસુફ મેહરાલ્લી સેન્ટર હજારો બાળકોને શાળાએ જવાનો એકમાત્ર અવસર પૂરો પાડે છે.

Of the students, by the students, for the students

Their clarity of thought, sensitivity towards others and the ability to look inwards were rare and presented a hope for a positively different society

Schoolchildren turn wetland warriors

The group has already collected about 3,000 signatures in two phases, besides engaging fellow students in discussions on the campaign.

A for alternative, E for environment

EVS or environmental studies class found the older students inspecting a bund in the elevated parts of the campus. The rains were around the corner.

Migrant Schools

Yusuf Mehrally Center provides thousands of children with their only chance to go to school

Balaknama Might Just Be The Most Unique Newspaper In The Country

Sold for Re.1, the paper runs on a contribution of Rs.5 per month from each kid, that helps in funding their basic education, as well as the newspaper

Regenerating sholas and grasslands

These students know that in the valleys of the high Nilgiris, the sholas hold on to rainwater like a sponge and release it through the year.