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A Journey of Re-imagining Education: Interview with Manish Jain
Alternative education means learning from Life, not from textbooks, exams and classrooms.
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Don’t always go by the textbook
We need Textbooks which convey updated understanding of the issues, talk of the complexities around us and respect the intelligence of students.
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नर्मदा जीवनशालाओं के 25 वर्ष हुए पुरे, 25 मोमबत्तिया जला कर किया बालमेला का उद्घाटन (in Hindi)
शासन पर निर्भर न रहकर, जन सहयोग के आधार पर जीवनशालाओं को चलाने की बात
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Museums as learning spaces
Museums can facilitate discussions on, say, how forests and their resources were put to use during earlier times.
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Toor de Force in Ragi Fields
Students have learnt about types of soil, nutrition, setting up a drip irrigation system and figured out that planting marigold repels insects
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Animal School in India
A little Indianized adaptation of The Animal School: A Fable by George Reavis, a school superintendent, from the 1940s
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Questioning the consumption based developmental paradigm
Taking up personal and social initiatives in order to create awareness and reduce environmental impact...
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जिसने बच्चों में उम्मीद के बीज बोए (in Hindi)
"... पूरी दुनिया के बच्चों को किताबें, वीडियो, मेरे बनाए खिलौनों को बनाना सीखने के तरीके मुफ्त में उपलब्ध कर सकूं..."
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Where children Defy odds to make a future
After a few months, I can hand over the responsibility of the space to the locals who take ownership of everything, including the financials.