Learning and Education

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

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.

Meet Taukeer Alam, the school dropout who has become one of Uttarakhand’s top birders

He handles field equipment with ease, enters field data in computer, analyses video footage of woodpeckers, initiates nature clubs in villages...

A new tribe of storytellers is using every trick in the book to keep you rapt

How to give children of the digital generation a sense of earth - may be through stories ?

बच्चों की उम्मीद है चिंगारी ट्रस्ट (in Hindi)

गैस पीड़ित व प्रदूषित भूजल (यूनियन कार्बाइड के आसपास) प्रभावित महिलाओं और बच्चों के हितों के लिए चिंगारी ट्रस्ट काम करता है।

आदिवासियों की उम्मीद है आधारशिला (in Hindi)

यहां हाथ से काम करने, आसपास के परिवेश और समाज से सीखने पर जोर दिया जाता है

An alternative school in rural Kerala is teaching tribal children life lessons

Gothrathalam school aims at preventing Dalit and Adivasi students from being isolated

Sonam Wangcuk – winner of Magsaysay award

It’s not a conventional school, but a place to pursue practical, environmental, social and traditional knowledge, values and skills.

University of Ingenuity

... training small farmers to adopt natural resources for sustainable livestock farming, fishery and crop husbandry, and that too, free of cost.

Meet Aqui Thami from Darjeeling, whose travelling library is putting the spotlight on women’s books

... I was moved to reading more and more non-fiction which in turn enriched my work and life processes.

Notes on Hosting the Creativity Adda Girls Summer Camp

We encourage our (girl) students (too) to dream up alternate, positively charged futures for themselves and the world