Category: Interventions

Making friends with Gandhi, the environmentalist

Ananya Pathak and Vikash Sharma
At Shiksha Swaraj Centre, students practice hands-on skills like organic farming and carpentry that connect them to nature. Ananya Pathak writes about how Gandhi’s teachings on sustainable living inspire students to grow plants, craft tools, and develop a deeper environmental conscience.

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Good financial habits can start in the classroom

Utkarsh Kumar
Financial literacy doesn’t have to be daunting! Utkarsh writes about simple classroom activities to aid the critical distinction between needs and wants. These practices will not only benefit students’ financial lives but also encourage them to contribute positively to society.

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Indian teachers in Bhutan: A cross-border story of love and respect

Chintan Girish Modi
Did you know Indian teachers have shaped generations of Bhutanese students? On a recent trip to the country, Chintan Girish Modi learned about this bond between the two countries. He writes about a speech by Bhutan’s Queen Mother and shares heartwarming stories of Bhutanese people who were inspired by Indian teachers.

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How parents can add value to government schools

Vasudha Kapoor
Kapoor writes about a few government schools in Ujjain, Madhya Pradesh, that experimented with ways to engage parents and community members. Supported by Mera Gaon Meri Dunia and partners, the initiative facilitated meaningful Parent Teacher Meetings (PTMs) through visual displays of students’ work. Regular communication through newsletters further strengthened trust and fostered parents’ sense of ownership such that they became involved in school activities and improvements.

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Rebuilding hope: a journey with a government school

Sushmita Aripirala
Join Sushmita on her journey to transform a dilapidated government school without even the most basic amenities into a beacon of hope. For almost a decade, her mission has been to provide students with a dignified learning environment. Her moving account will leave you inspired to take action and make a difference in your own community.

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Nature education as a two-way street

Astha Chaudhary and Dipti Arora
Environment education in its current form is all very well when it is being imparted to students living in concrete urban jungles, but when we use the same approach and textbooks to teach children living with and off nature, it is wanting. Local knowledge and contexts should be included in EVS to enrich the subject and make it more useful.

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Re-imagining learning spaces

Vasudha Kapoor
Every intervention in education needs to be planned keeping enough room for the teacher’s and student’s agency. This article talks about experiential learning spaces and opportunities accessible to the grassroots population. Local youth, fresh out of college, with minimal job experience and little or no training in specific pre-teaching courses helped bring out major changes in teaching strategies that improved children’s participation and engagement in learning.

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Children, citizenship and poetry – 2

Samina Mishra
Working with children can be exciting, engaging and most importantly educative. In the process of teaching children, adults learn a lot themselves. In part 2 of her article on children, citizenship, and poetry, the author talks about how a writing exercise resulted not just in beautiful poetry but also a richer understanding, for both the children and adults, of themselves and their environs.

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Children, citizenship and poetry

Samina Mishra
When children engage with the arts, they are able to express their thoughts and feelings in ways that help them understand their lives and worlds. This article is based on a project that draws upon the author’s work with children in collaborative creative practice using text, image and sound. The project, Hum Hindustani, includes creative workshops with children that are designed around the ideas of Liberty, Equality and Fraternity. Two poems written by two children on the idea of fraternity reflect their thoughts.

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