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.

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.

Engendering change

North East Network’s three decades in Nagaland show how transformation holds only when women’s voices and dignity are placed at the core.

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.

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.