I bow to those who continue to defy the onslaught of modern industrial-military Civilisation and its hardening of categories and borders,
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
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Slow Food Udaipur presents the first cookbook featuring traditional Mewari dishes. Many of these recipes have been featured in Hulchul Cafe. We hope you enjoy them as much as we do.
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.
Dear Students:
Swapathgami magazine is published by the Walkouts-Walkon Network and Shikshantar Andolan.
We are excited to share this little booklet of cartoons that seeks to expose aspects of the culture of factory schooling.
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
This essay explore the concept of peer-to-peer learning in the Creativity Adda Delhi.
This essay explores the power of intrinsic motivation in unschooling spaces like the Creativity Adda.
Here is a little playbook on our experiences with co-designing and co-hosting the Unschoolers Winter Camp at Shikshantar, Udaipur.
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.
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 ÔÇÿShikshantar 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 ÔÇÿBindaas Community Media AcademyÔÇÖ 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.
