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.
Grassroots women map air pollution hotspots, spur a coal company to curb dust
Trained in air quality mapping, women leaders monitored air quality across 69 sites in Jharkhand, identifying 26 pollution hotspots. The local women that co-led the study took ownership of the data to drive action, prompting decision-makers to install water sprinklers, cover coal loads during transport, and set up air quality monitors in public places.
In the Western Ghats, 20 Kerala Women Are Protecting a Forest Home to 2000 Native Plants
Women at the Gurukula Botanical Sanctuary in Kerala's Wayanad district have turned a patch of forest into a living refuge for endangered species, orchids, ferns, succulents and carnivorous plants.
How people power reclaimed the Vishwamitri for Vadodara
From building a coalition against the Vishwamitri Riverfront Development Project to getting it scrapped, people’s movements have interwoven passionate activism with law, science, and data. Their collective engagement and dogged sense of purpose made all the difference. Not only have activists been appointed to a committee overseeing a flood mitigation project, they also do on-ground monitoring, record official work, track plans and progress, and document irregularities.
Teaching to do the Right Thing: Climate Education in the 21st Century
Young people need to be given the emotional and ethical wherewithal to face a society which prizes consumerism over sustainability, the short-term satisfaction of personal desires over the long-term health of eco-systems and of themselves.
श्रमयोग: कैसे एक हिमालयी क्षेत्र, सल्ट, अपना सशक्तिकरण कर रहा है (In Hindi)
श्रमयोग का उद्देश्य विभिन्न गतिविधियों और पहलों के माध्यम से “सहयोग”, “शिक्षा” और “संगठन” के इन स्तंभों को मजबूत करना है।
ആനയുടെയും അന്ധരുടെയും കഥയ്ക്കപ്പുറം: കൂട്ടായ അർത്ഥരൂപീകരണത്തിലേക്ക് (In Malayalam)
ആനയുടെയും അന്ധരുടെയും കഥയുമായി വികൽപ് സംഗം പ്രക്രിയ എങ്ങനെ ബന്ധപ്പെട്ടിരിക്കുന്നുവെന്ന് വായിക്കാം.
Kumaon Festival of Literature and Arts is doing something no one else is—refusing to grow
“We’re overwhelmed by the interest the festival receives, but we can’t accommodate everyone. The art and literature featured here must have some connection to the hills and the environment. That’s the only filter we use,” said Janhavi Prasada.
Legends of Sher Dariya (The Lion River)
The existential challenge for all of us now is: How can we listen to the rivers again? How can we become the voice for Indus and other rivers that are being polluted, dammed, divided and diverted?
How Young Filmmakers From the Northeast Are Using Their Cameras To Protect India’s Hidden Forests
Youth from the Northeast are using cameras to tell stories of their wild places. What began as a filmmaking initiative is now empowering communities to document and defend their biodiversity.