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.

Farm and Food Entrepreneurship: Rebuilding Assam’s fragile economy and ecology

The education system needs to impart essential skills to children, such as growing food using scientific methods.

Solar power to give 150 city schools Rs 17 crore per year

The best part is that none of the schools had to invest any money. The entire project cost was borne by the developers.

The Indian school where students pay for lessons with plastic waste

Students collect over 10,000 pieces of plastic each month and transform them into eco-bricks for construction.

Kolkata Has The World’s First Tram Library

Passes by 30 educational institutions; book launches, book reading sessions and literature festivals are on the cards

4,000 kids draw up ‘children’s manifesto’ ahead of assembly polls (Assam)

The manifesto will be presented to the current political leadership, as well as all major political parties

From concrete to jungle: cartoonist puts Mumbai’s wildlife on the map

“... in the city’s parks, or by the ... government, or in schools and colleges, and generate awareness among Mumbaikars.”

Nagaland Students Setup Mini Hydropower Plant, Power Highway Street Lights

“Project Brighter Khuzama is wholly funded by like-minded locals and not by any governmental organisations."

The Ecosystem of Learning

Reimagining an Earth-centric and child-centric education

Children make art to save Vedanthangal Bird Sanctuary

Children across cities protest against the denotification of Vedanthangal Bird Sanctuary, during the lockdown, by making art