Vidya Vanam: an involvement with the community
Prema Rangachary
Can a school dovetail its actions and curriculum based on the needs of the families it is located amidst? How deep can this engagement with the larger community be?
Prema Rangachary
Can a school dovetail its actions and curriculum based on the needs of the families it is located amidst? How deep can this engagement with the larger community be?
Arun Elassery
Can a school base its curriculum on what is good for the community around it and what would strengthen a community, make it more prosperous?
Sindhu Mathai
Schools are linked to their surrounding environment and communities but the relationships can vary from school to school. Can we try to understand these relationships using spatial mapping?
Richa Dang
Can creating safe spaces for children (and young adults) to access – read – discuss books enable them to get lost in the world of books? Can these spaces also help them to bond with each other, to grow as individuals and to express better?
Ridhima Garg
Can schools bring together children from two communities in conflict? Together, can these children walk towards the goals of peace and coexistence? Can these schools develop trust and friendship across communities?
Seetha Anand Vaidyam
Can schools use the respect they command in the society to help address the problems the society faces? Problems like education, health and environment?
Nimesh Ved
How do schools interact with their neighbouring institutions like banks, post-offices, railway-stations, shops, parks and, of course, other schools?
Ashwin Prabhu and Akhila Seshadri
Can a school help children engage with the world beyond the school walls? Can it encourage the children to view themselves as products of not just their homes and schools but of the larger world?
Sumitra M Gautama
Do the values of a school decide whether or not it will relate to its neighbourhood? Can a school also be interpreted as the ambience it creates with its collective mind?
Usha Raman
What does it mean for a school to be a part of a neighbourhood, or indeed, as is more often the case in our country, what does it do to a locality to have a school in its environs?
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