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.
शिक्षा : नवाचार ही ‘नीलबाग स्कूल’ की पहचान
डेविड मानते थे कि मौजूदा शिक्षा सूचना देने का जरिया होती है, जबकि हमें बच्चों को सीखने की पूरी प्रक्रिया में शामिल करना चाहिए जिससे वे उसे समझ सकें, उसका आनंद ले सकें और इससे उनमें निर्णय लेने की क्षमता का विकास हो सके।
Playing with plants
Soham Kacker shares how ‘befriending’ plants as playmates in his childhood opened the door to an adult career in ecology, and his lifelong love of plants
Beyond the Elephant and the Blind Men: A Story of Collective Sense-Making
Vikalp Sangam answers the parable: we listen to each sector's truth to see the whole elephant of an equitable, just & sustainable future.
SUPPORT THE OBJECTIVES OF HIMALAYAN INSTITUTE OF ALTERNATIVE LEARNING (HIAL), RATHER THAN HARASS IT!
We are shocked at the Ladakh UT Administration’s move to revoke the land lease of the Himalayan Institute of Alternative Learning (HIAL).
Tracking seasons through changing tree behaviour
Citizen science platforms, such as SeasonWatch, are generating large-scale, long-term biodiversity data that help track ecological responses to climate change, such as changes in species distribution, flowering times, and migration patterns.
Women Like Bhanumati Are Powering Andhra’s Natural Farming Mode
Women farmers in Anantapur are using natural farming to reshape agriculture, economies, and gender roles. They are reviving traditional methods of preserving seeds of native millets while also resisting the commercial takeover of village commons.
How a Homestay in Rural Bengal Is Helping 2500 Tribal Women Build Independent Lives Through Art
In a quiet village on the outskirts of Shantiniketan thrives a vibrant forest of craft, care, and community. Built by and for tribal women, Moram Earth is a movement rooted in art and rural craftspersonship.
Shramyog: How a remote Himalayan region, Sult, is empowering itself
Shramyog aims to strengthen these pillars of “Sahyog”, “Shiksha” and “Sangathan” through various activities and initiatives.
When climate communication takes creative and non-news forms
With artists, researchers and educators finding creative ways to talk about climate change, the focus moves away from jargon like net zero emissions to the impact of climate change on the lives, health, and livelihoods of people.