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.

Warned Not To Enter This Village, He Revived It

It brings me immense satisfaction to think that a little effort from my side along with the collective hard work by everyone has put Suaba village on the path towards holistic development.

University Without Classrooms, Teachers, Degrees, Curriculum, Exams: Swaraj University

Democratic education has helped khojis be more tolerant, patient and learn to look at other’s point of view- which is very essential in today’s living.

A Digital Book Library for Blind Students Is Helping Them Visualise a Bright Future

Bengaluru based Samarthanam Trust for Disabled has 5,000 audio books to help students with disabilities achieve their educational goals.

The school on the hill

Their years in school must enhance and reinforce the traditional knowledge and skills of their community. Every child contributes in farming and tending to the animals with innate enthusiasm.

Rooftop rainwater harvesting at Chhattisgarh school reduces absenteeism

The villagers now have access to clean and safe drinking water, and are also not dealing as much with scarcity.

Debating rice in the forest of learning

A brilliant school in Tamil Nadu, free for Adivasis and Dalits, but denied state recognition

Photos: Maharashtra school kids capture hidden lives of animals

In mid-2014, professional camera traps were set up. Before long, the hidden world of mammals – particularly at night – began to reveal itself.

Weather Wise

Its areal view even shows you the condition of clouds in your area.

Sita School

The basis of vital and meaningful education is a relation-ship where individuals can constantly respond to themselves, to others and to their environment.