Issue 09: Campaign for a Million Eco Projects
Editorial: Eco Projects – Celebrating Down-to-Earthness and Fulfilment The first issue every year has the same theme as the Bhoomi Conference (or Unconference) – this […]
Education
Enjoying Eco-Projects
We can persist with an activity much more easily if we enjoy it. More often than not, we do not voluntarily take up an activity […]
Green Schools
A documentary on Green Schools by Aditi Banerjee shows how a few schools are taking on a pioneering role in helping children build a stronger […]
The Commons, Community and Education
The concepts of commons and community do not seem to get the importance they deserve in public debate or private conversations today. But there is […]
Emerging Out of the Age of Mixed-Up
Looking at the scientific, economic, nutritional and cultural aspects of health. Most newspapers regularly carry conflicting news items on food and health: on one day, […]
Issue 04: Rethinking Education
Editorial: Rethinking Education There is a delightful story of Birbal, who, on his way home, saw a group of people searching for something under a street […]
The Learning Curve
The most important discovery of the past two centuries is that we are joined in one fragile experiment, vulnerable to bad judgment, shortsightedness, greed and […]
What Counts – and What is Counted
Our instruments, which mostly measure what is easily counted rather than what matters most, often fail to take into consideration values of community, reverence, respect, […]
Unconscious, Unintended Learning – What we learn without trying to
Educational Planners design content for various courses- but do we take into account the power of what children learn unconsciously? While we human beings think, […]
ECOLOGY of Learning
Mechanizing an organic process of learning is like replacing a rich and diverse ecology with an unhealthy monoculture. A holistic understanding of education goes beyond any specific method […]