Visit the Shikshantar Resource Center in Udaipur.
Here are some details for the Fellowship. Application Form now available here. Last date for Submission is April 22, 2017
A beautiful film on natural learning made during the Swapathgami Filmmaking Workshop.
A little Hacking the Education system spoof on the famous School Chale Hum government propaganda video.
A TEDx talk by Prabhakant Jain on the Creativity Adda project in Mukherjee Nagar, Delhi.
A little trailer of the Creativity Adda unschool, a free learning space in a government school in Mukherjee Nagar, Delhi.
Excerpts from Manish Jain's Reimagining Education speaking tour in Brasil - November 2018.
A short film on the Creativity Adda unschool in a government school in Surata tribal village, Dungarpur. This project was initiated in June 2018.
Here is a little playbook on our experiences with co-designing and co-hosting the Unschoolers Winter Camp at Shikshantar, Udaipur.
This special Summer Unschooling Camp was held in Delhi Lancer Road government school for girls as a prototype for a new Creativity Adda
I am the the youngest of three BRATS (Born Raised and Transferred) kids from the Defence background who reminds my kids that I spent the first nine years of my life in eight locations across the co
If you wanted to change an ancient culture in a generation, how would you do it? You would change the way it educates its children.
A little glimpse into the Unschoolers Winter Camp held at Shikshantar, Udaipur, from Nov 1-Dec 30, 2017. This film was shot and made by the unschoolers themselves. Special thanks to Qudrat.
An Indianized adaptation of The Animal School: A Fable by George Reavis from the 1940s.
Frequently asked questions about the Winter Camp. Check out the Unschoolers Winter Camp film.
I am 44 years old. I live in Pune with my daughter, Gourika, and son, Ishaan, my parents and our dog, Goldy.
Inspiring stories of South Asian homeschoolers, unschoolers, and creative families creating learning environment with new experiments.
Watch Vidhi Jain's Josh Talk on How Schools kill creativity and why she chooses to unschool.
Some stories about families learning together from social visionaries Norma and Claude Alvares during the Swaraj University Wisdom Weekend
Interview with Mrs. Vidhi Jain, co-founder of the ‘Shikshantar Resource Centre about her vision of education
My father is a born teacher. He’s the kind of man who can spot a potential learner from a distance and go into action.
A fantastic collection of essays about Deschooling Our Lives.
This is the classic book which has inspired thousands of children and families to walkout of the four walls of schools and reclaim their own learning pathways.
Instead of Education is Holt’s most direct and radical challenge to the educational status quo and a clarion call to parents to save their children from schools of all kinds.
You are welcome to Swaraj University to experience the joy and aliveness of learning.
Learning Parks was one of the first experiments co-created by Shikshantar in Udaipur in the year 2000
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.
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.
The film is a recording of a gathering of families and individuals that met in Deer Park, Bir, Himachal Pradesh in India in April 2011, to discuss and share there learning journeys.
Glimpses of the Families Learning Together meet that was held in Indore in 2010. About 12 families gathered and played together in Indore, beautifully hosted by Dinesh Kothari and friends.
The Families Learning Together group has produced this animation to raise a dialogue around the issues of vaccination.
Vidhi Jain talks about the power of learning cities and learning eco-systems
You are committing a sin. You will spoil and ruin your child’s life. You are mad.
John Holt describes why he gave up on trying to reform schools and started advocating that families liberate their children from schooling.
The film explores the lives of three families who are making sustainable choices by allowing the children to learn naturally at home, self healing and doing organic farming in three different cities in India
