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.

Nature-based learning programmes improve environment and climate literacy in Chennai

Nature-based educators in the coastal city of Chennai are working to improve environment and climate literacy through outdoor, place-based programmes.

কৃষি ও খাদ্য উদ্যোক্তা: আসামের ভঙ্গুর অর্থনীতি এবং পরিবেশের পুনর্গঠন (In Bengali)

শিক্ষা ব্যবস্থায় শিশুদের প্রয়োজনীয় দক্ষতা প্রদান করা দরকার, যেমন বৈজ্ঞানিক পদ্ধতি ব্যবহার করে খাদ্য উৎপাদন করা

Empowering Chennai’s climate-vulnerable communities

A group of young naturalists work towards empowering the public in Chennai, especially children and youth from marginalized communities, through nature based learning/education

NGO Uses Bamboo Products To End Village’s Agrarian Crisis, Uplift 200 Artisans

Bamboo is good for the environment, as it helps preserve soil, grows fast, and is termite-resistant. It is the green gold material of the 21st century,” says Sivaranjan

Hill tribes that once hunted elusive snow leopards now turn protectors

The training includes sensitising the Himalayan tribes about the value of co-existence and leading a mindful lifestyle for a sustainable livelihood.

When the Forest is our Garden, the garden also becomes a place for Conflict (of Interests)

Community mobilisation under the Tribal Yuva Sangathan: Fight for rights under FRA and CFRR, Conservation & revival of traditional practices, Creation of educational spaces

खेती और खाद्य उद्यमिता: असम की नाज़ुक अर्थव्यवस्था का पारिस्थितिकी को ध्यान में रखते हुए पुनर्निर्माण (In Hindi)

शिक्षा प्रणाली को बच्चों को आवश्यक कौशल प्रदान करने की आवश्यकता है, जैसे कि वैज्ञानिक तरीकों का उपयोग करके भोजन बढ़ाना।

 Can biodiversity be a political science teacher?

Exploring how education emplaced in local biodiversity can deepen values of equality, diversity and inclusivity among human beings

Decoding Politics: Of, in, about Food

A woman farmer teaching the politics of food to city-based college students and village-based organic farmers.