Learning and Education
Learning processes focusing on ethics, sustainability, equity, and well-being
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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.
Music Basti – a musical shelter
An endeavour like ours can trigger some sort of re-evaluation of arts education in schools.
Art and Tea Leaves
In her studio in Darjeeling, meant for the children of tea garden workers, Hemlata Pradhan has made natural history the basis of art lessons
The Slow Food Junior Chef’s Academy Summer Camp
"You use hing (asophetida) in your cooking, but do you know what it actually is? No? Then go and find out."
Sanitarily yours…
At a school in Kanchipuram, teachers and students harvest manure from dry composting toilets, thus paying possibly the best tribute to Gandhi
Putting play at the centre of learning: Baala Balaga School
This equal opportunity school enables affordable access to education. It emphasizes learning that is child-centric, activity-oriented, play-based, and holistic.
From Food to Electricity, This School Produces Everything It Needs In Its Own Backyard
“The aim is to produce responsible citizens, who do not only relish the fruits of the earth but also learn to preserve it in return,” says Jenkins.
A silicon tide lifts many boats
Free Software Movement of Karnataka teaches children from the slum how to wield a mouse and use open source software to gain 'whitecollar' skills.
The Sight of a Blind Farmer Gave This Man the Vision to Create a Better Bihar
What do a football programme, a hospital and a vocational training programme have in common? One man’s vision for a better Bihar.
When Faith Struck a Happy Chord
This initiative not only revealed the many musical facets of the children, but also resulted in several changes in their outlook.