The Peoples' Institute for Re-thinking Education and Development

The Spell of the Sensuous

Animals speak, the Earth speaks; to us, about us, with us. The Spell of the Sensuous explores how the human mind came to renounce its sensuous bearings, isolating itself from the other animals and the animate Earth. David Abram draws on sources as diverse as the philosophy of Merleau-Ponty, Balinese shamanism, Apache storytelling, and his own experience as an accomplished sleight-of-hand of magician to reveal the subtle dependence of human cognition on the natural environment.

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Alivelihoods vs. Deadlihoods

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

This revolution will not be schooled: How we are collectively improvising a 'new story' about learning

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

Exposing the Illusion of the Campaign for Fundamental Right to Education

Is the Right to Education a blessing or a curse? This pamphlet seeks to open a debate on the Right to Education Campaign.

If not schooling, then what? Learning Parks of Possibilities

Learning Parks was one of the first experiments co-created by Shikshantar in Udaipur in the year 2000

10 Lies My School Taught Me

What lies have you been taught by your school? How have you been trying to unlearn them?

Seven Deadly Sins of Schooling

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.