LSUC2025 Coimbatore
Check out the Learning Societies Unconference 2025 held in Coimbatore. This is the premier event for the alternative education movement in India.
"To be considered relevant and innovative for our times, every visionary education project should have a pedagogy to engage with the larger money system, in other words, interrogate and re-imagine notions of education and economy. This has to go beyond current notions of financial literacy, job readiness, etc. and cover at least three critical dimensions: 1) a pedagogy which will help us to redefine our relationship with money. it should especially focus on delinking money (bank balance, salary, consumption patterns) from our sense of self-worth and success; 2) a pedagogy which will help us to explore how to re-build our local economies and to shift from deadlihoods to alivelihoods careers; 3) a pedagogy which re-orients our worldviews and sense of purpose back to the notion of seva (sacred service), gift culture, inter-connectedness and a profound sensibility of care for the commons. Without these poly-pedagogies, there is not really much hope for dealing with the roots of the poly-crises.”
- Manish Jain, Shikshantar