Do you have a dream project to improve the local culture, environment or health of Udaipur city? We would like to support you in making your dream come into reality.
Here are some details for the Fellowship. Application Form now available here. Last date for Submission is April 22, 2017
What lies have you been taught by your school? How have you been trying to unlearn them?
Swaraj University was designed and birthed in 2010 as a two year learning programme for youth.
THE ECOVERSITIES PROPHECY (AND INVITATION TO ALL THE EDUCATORS IN THE WORLD)
I just had a conversation with a friend who has recently joined an NCERT committee for science curriculum and textbooks. He asked me what I would include. I suggested:
- What if government schools took the lead in showing what education for the future might look like?
A LIVING EXAMPLE OF THE PARABLE OF THE EDUCATED FROG IN BOILING WATER
Several philosopher friends of mine point to the roots of the planetary crises humanity is facing as being the worldview of separation and scarcity.
"The modern university trains us to be ideological rather than dialogical. Taking an absolute position to win the debate. Judging people through black and white categories.
"One of the main causes behind the collapse and demise of modern civilization in the meta-crisis may ultimately be the modernist practice of degrees and diplomas.
International organizations like UNICEF brought out the framing of 'child-centered' education as an attempt to bring more focus to each child's needs and diverse learning styles more than three dec
I keep meeting many friends who are valiantly trying to fix or reform the education system with all kinds of super new curricula and shiny technologies.
I bow to those who continue to defy the onslaught of modern industrial-military Civilisation and its hardening of categories and borders,
“I feel we need to look more closely into the mental health epidemic facing India.
Udaipur as a Learning City invites you to experience the follow itinerary when you visit Udaipur:
Day 1
#LSUC 2023 - MEET SOME OF THE AMAZING CO-CREATORS WHO WILL BE COMING THIS YEAR… (note this is only a partial list, there are many many more inspiring friends coming)
Welcome To Homo Giftus
1. Student Loans - skyrocketing cost of higher education will make students question whether it is worth it to take on so much Debt
“The West taught us that they are 'materialists' and we are 'spiritualists'. But this is a fragmented lie. We are spiritual materialists.
You are super special AND you are not.
What you achieve in life is important AND it doesn’t really matter.
You will have lots of choices in your life AND you really don’t.
SHIKSHANTAR - UDAIPUR AS A LEARNING CITY
MAGICAL TREASURE HUNT IN THE OLD CITY
(offered in the spirit of the Hippocratic Oath)
This downloadable book shares some of the memes that were created during the Emperor Has No Clothes Fellowship for hacking the education system.
"We need to understand the 'hidden curriculum' -- the design elements, rules and structures that drive factory-schooling. Sitting in lines produces linear and stagnant thinking.
We are excited to share this little booklet of cartoons that seeks to expose aspects of the culture of factory schooling.
The entire modern education system has been a colonizing exercise.
An old Zen saying insists that to 'name the colour" is to "blind the eye".
Around the world, in puddles of silent reclamation, young people, communities and inspired collectives are co-enacting a radically different narrative about education and development
Registration details for the 13th Learning Societies unConference, Sardarshahr, Rajasthan - March 23-27, 2023.
What makes you, your community and the world come alive again? What are regenerative livelihoods for the planet? READ MORE HERE.
Learn about the art of sponging to pursue your dreams and join the Sponge Club.
New publication from Zero Waste Udaipur for social entreprenuers and local communities.
Some symptoms of TEDxitis -- the disease of watching too many TED talks.
An Indianized adaptation of The Animal School: A Fable by George Reavis from the 1940s.
The Indian Multiversities Alliance aims to generate meaningful responses to the deep crisis of relevance facing the Indian education system.
Inspiring stories of South Asian homeschoolers, unschoolers, and creative families creating learning environment with new experiments.
Get a little taste of LSUC history by downloading the first unconference publication, If the Shoe Doesn't Fit, from 2002.
A local solidarity network of primary producers, farmers, grandmothers, chefs, activists, natural healers, suppliers, distributors that embrace a philosophy of good, clean & fair food for all.
Download the Ecoversities Film Festival and learn how to host it in your community.
15 people held a 2 hour Funeral Procession on Fatehsagar Lake in Udaipur to mourn the loss of more than 9000 precious young lives
A retelling of Tagore's original story. This book looks at the education system as a cage.
We invite you to join us in deepening the dialogues on learning societies.
Our dream is that every resident of Udaipur, particularly all the children, should get to eat fresh organic vegetables and fruits every day. What good is our money, if we can't eat good food.
Everyone is talking about happiness these days. So I started thinking about what are the things that are important for me and my community as part of our work in Udaipur as a Learning City.
Many years ago, I had an idea of publishing a book full of confessions in which teachers asked for an apology for their crimes against children in school.
Factory-schooling is guilty of its own deadly sins. It is important for those working in the field of education to understand the serious damage that factory-schooling does to our children and to our wider species.
If nai talim gets imprisoned into a system, it will be killed. If that should happen there will be no room for initiative, and people will spend their time contriving how this piece of knowledge can be correlated with that activity. We must steer clear of that kind of thing.
One of the biggest confusions in India is that we equate 'education' and 'the culture of schooling' with 'shiksha'. But their philosophical, epistemological and pedagogical roots are fundamentally different. Take a look how.
The reflections in this article are a result of my explorations with rethinking education and development over the past 20 years. They were part of a talk delivered in Lisbon, Portugal.
The real debate is not about school vs. no school. It is about co-creating the best possible learning ecologies for ourselves and our chidren.
This anthology explores many aspects of the gift culture - trust, care, hospitality, sharing economy, copyleft, forgiveness, vulnerability, etc. - from around the world.
Join our campaign to say NO to diplomas and certificates as the basis for hiring and promotion in companies and civil society organizations.
Cities all over the world are rising up to make a difference in food, energy, transportation, communication and urban space. We have been inspired in Udaipur as a Learning City by many others.
The Creativity Adda is an unschool (innovative self-designed learning space) based in a government school in Mukherjee Nagar, Delhi.
We had a great unconference in Noida. Find out how you can organize a Learning City Unconference in your city or town.
I can no longer accept a narrative of education, which teaches me that my village grandmother was illiterate, primitive, backward, stupid, uneducated, underdeveloped, uncivilized and not capable of managing her own affairs.
What if... money could speak? What would it tell us? What if... you had $1 million dollars? What would you do with it?
This issue of Vimukt Shiksha is dedicated to celebrating the courage and wisdom of those individuals, families and communities who are trying to resist being schooled or conditioned or institutionalized or dehumanized and, in the process, are trying to reclaim control of their own lives and learning.
There is no pre-set curriculum for the learning activists. It emerges from mutual dialogue among co-learners. However, some processes can assist in their deeper exploration.
We have interacted with thousands of youth and have found the most common and important question asked by young people in their education today has nothing to do with the syllabus or with what is h
Is the Right to Education a blessing or a curse? This pamphlet seeks to open a debate on the Right to Education Campaign.
Learning Parks was one of the first experiments co-created by Shikshantar in Udaipur in the year 2000
