alternative learning
हमारे गाव में हम ही सरकार (in Hindi)

मेंढ़ा-लेखा ... विकल्पहीन होती जा रही दुनिया में विकल्प और उम्मीद की किरण बनकर सामने आया है।

The Man Who Is Using Cameras To Revolutionize Agriculture In India

Farmers become video filmmakers, which is turning them into more productive farmers and more confident human beings.

Gap year Pays for Life

Students need to get breathing space, to get their bearings for the journey ahead, to find their passion and avocation.

On observation and What Prevents Observation

What we do with our children is to make bonsai out of them and not to let them grow to their potential as we think bonsai is their potential.

Sita School

The basis of vital and meaningful education is a relation-ship where individuals can constantly respond to themselves, to others and to their environment.

SECMOL

Here were people who were living what they believed in and what they preached, something that remains a distant dream for many of us.

Kanavu, Kerala : Where Learning Happens

An ethnography of an alternative school/commune, Kanavu in Wayanadu district of Kerala. It explores the diverse learning spaces and methodologies that have been incorporated into its system, where learning happens for children who participate. Kanavu is today facing several challenges as they have begun a new phase of handing the management over to the older students (now adults) who have graduated.

Adivasi Academy, Gujarat: Rescuing cultures of India, one word at a time

India boasts of a huge variety of languages and dialects. Many of these languages do not have scripts of their own. In fact many of them are on the brink of fading away into oblivion owing to the trend of people migrating to modern cities and hence newer cultures. However, a small academy in Gujarat is standing tall to save these languages from dying. Anand Giridharadas writes in this article on how the Adivasi Academy, based in Tejgadh, Gujarat, is working towards chronicling elements of rural culture.

Vigyan Ashram, Pabal, Pune

With its firm belief in ‘Learning by Doing’, Vigyan Ashram at Pabal, Maharashtra has, over past 3 decades, transformed the lives of hundreds of rural youth who the mainstream education system might have rejected as ‘failures’. A modern version of the Gurukula system, “Vigyan” means ‘Search of Truth’ and “Ashram” symbolises ‘simple living and high thinking”.