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
International organizations like UNICEF brought out the framing of 'child-centered' education as an attempt to bring more focus to each child's needs and diverse learning styles more than three dec
Ajay is from Delhi. He grew up as an orphan and then was enrolled in Karm Marg. He is a khoji in Swaraj University.
The Unchoolers Ecovillage is based in Udaipur, Rajasthan, India. We invite families to come explore natural learning and living with us. Film by Traingunya Bhale. Copyleft 2023.
“I feel we need to look more closely into the mental health epidemic facing India.
Glimpses of the first Ecoversities Asia Gathering in Bangkok Thailand in September, 2022.
Jyotibhai Desai is one of the most creative and radical Gandhian educationists in the world. This film explores some of his ideas and experiments.
This is the story of Shahruk who is a walkout and a self-designed learner in Shikshantar.
The Udaipur Times team, led by Alfiya Khan and Farhina Ansari, speak to Manish to explore his insights, purpose and vision for Shikshantar and the unSchooling movement.
Oasis-Gujarat hosts a conversation with Manish Jain in Hindi on his thoughts on education.
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.
Vidhi Jain, in her eye-opening TEDx talk about unschooling, talks about how we can break from the culture of schooling and design our own education.
Critique of the pressure put on Indian kids to become an engineer. Based on the Book "How I Braved Anu Aunty & Co-Founded a Million Dollar Company"
Humorous Bollywood critique of the Indian education.
Patch Adams on the medical system and the role of doctors.
The closing speech from the movie Accepted. Inspiration for Swaraj University.
Dead Prez shares their critique of schools and incarceration.
An in depth look at modern public education facilities in the United States.
Prince EA shares the perspective of a student. Parent Teacher Conference GETS REAL in 2019. The battle of students vs teachers is centuries old. Find out how this one ends
Prince EA presents the People vs. the School System.
This downloadable book shares some of the memes that were created during the Emperor Has No Clothes Fellowship for hacking the education system.
This is a documentary video made by the Community Media Lab students in Creativity Adda Delhi on Harjas Singh and family.
Listen to Sakhi from Nashik, currently a PhD student in the UK, share about why she took a gap year after class 7 and after class 12. Give the gift of a gap year to someone you love.
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We are excited to share this little booklet of cartoons that seeks to expose aspects of the culture of factory schooling.
Listen to Sakhi from Nashik, UK PhD student, share about why she took a gap year after class 7 and after class 12. Registrations now open for the gap year summit.
When I look back at it, I feel Pitaara was like an idea that found me to help me unleash my own treasure. It gave me a deeper peek of my own abilities.
Listen to Kiran Bir Sethi, educationist in Riverside School, Ahmedabad, share about the benefits of taking a gap year. Give the gift of a gap year to someone you love.
"Those who are dejected and have tired feet choose to walk the well carved path. I love all the raw paths I have created for myself through my journey." - SD Saxena
Come visit Shikshantar Resource Center for Unschoolers, Free Learners, Walkouts, Misfits ito learn more about how you can reclaim control over your learning.
Most parents exploring unschooling are perplexed by questions related to the future of their child.
The Learning Societies Un-Conference is an intergenerational gathering which brings together leading ÔÇ£thinker-doersÔÇØ from around South Asia who are active in challenging the monopoly of factory
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
Alternative ads for cycling, zero-oil cooking and aloe vera.
Prabhakant Jain shares his experience with unschooling his son and helping to launch Creativity Adda Delhi.
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.
Vidhi Jain speaks at the 10th School Choice National Conference, organized on 14 December 2018 at India Habitat Centre, New Delhi. Hosted by Centre for Civil Society.
Here are some glimpses of a mime theatre performance by inmate-learners in the Swaraj Jail University.
This is a little behind the scenes film about the Jail University Band, Out of the Box, performance at the Udaipur World Music Festival.
Enjoy some glimpses of LSUC2017 in Bhoomi College, Bangalore.
Vidhi Jain speaks at the Economics of Happiness Conference in Ladakh, 2019
Talk by Manish Jain at Economics of Happiness Conference in Ladkah.
A beautiful film on natural learning made during the Swapathgami Filmmaking Workshop.
A short film on the Creativity Adda unschool in a government school in Surata tribal village, Dungarpur. This project was initiated in June 2018.
For the past six months, a small team from Shikshantar has been going to the Udaipur Central Jail and spending roughly five hours per day facilitating workshops and interacting with the inmates and guards.
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 ÔÇÿShikshantar 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 HoltÔÇÖs 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 childÔÇÖs 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
