Here is a little playbook on our experiences with co-designing and co-hosting the Unschoolers Winter Camp at Shikshantar, Udaipur.
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.
Inspiring stories of South Asian homeschoolers, unschoolers, and creative families creating learning environment with new experiments.
Claude Alvares interviews Manish Jain, co-founder of Shikshantar Andolan, Swaraj University and Learning Societies Unconference, for the Alternative Learning Sourcebook.
Download the Ecoversities Film Festival and learn how to host it in your community.
A retelling of Tagore's original story. This book looks at the education system as a cage.
Interview with Mrs. Vidhi Jain, co-founder of the ‘Shikshantar Resource Centre about her vision of education
Here are some details for the Fellowship. Application Form now available here. Last date for Submission is April 22, 2017
Interview with Mr. Santosh Padwal, documentary film-maker and co-founder of the ‘Bindaas Community Media Academy’ in Fatehpura, Udaipur, to learn more about this initiative and his vision of community media.
We invite you to join us in deepening the dialogues on learning societies.
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.
Working with concerned citizens of Udaipur to regenerate Mewari, the local language of the Mewar region of southern Rajasthan.
Is the Right to Education a blessing or a curse? This pamphlet seeks to open a debate on the Right to Education Campaign.
You are welcome to Swaraj University to experience the joy and aliveness of learning.
Is literacy always a good thing? What is its dark side?
Learning Parks was one of the first experiments co-created by Shikshantar in Udaipur in the year 2000
What lies have you been taught by your school? How have you been trying to unlearn them?
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.
Now, just so everyone can breathe a sigh of relief, gender too has made its way into the discussion on learning societies.
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.
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, and have compiled their amazing examples into a small booklet.
A beautiful radical poem critiquing the way 'literacy' has been framed by development projects.
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?
You are committing a sin. You will spoil and ruin your child’s life. You are mad.
The term ‘resistance’ has been given different meanings by different scholars.
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.
Imagine a group of MBA students... starting their own real green company and issuing a slow money IPO as part of their studies.
Since meanings in life are contextual and experiential, I will write about my understanding of mujaawarah basing it mainly on my experiences and making sense of them.
Munir Fasheh raises many fundamental questions around the relevance of knowledge, the process of its selection and the issue of power
As the process of deep-dialogue continues, some glaring questions stare at us. How do we see our city, and how do we see it in the future?
