Gubbachi

In the essay “Working with the government for educational change,” Rizwan Ahmed critically interrogates his experience as a CSO member of working with the governmental system, while striving toward ensuring the educational rights of children from marginal, migrant communities.

In ‘Understanding Dewey: Education and Experience’ Nomita Sikand introduces American Philosopher John Dewey’s classic tract ‘Experience and Education’ to a contemporary audience; this book has been influential in shaping the understanding surrounding experiential education worldwide and is of immediate relevance to the questions we are grappling with here in India.

Our journey of nine years in Gubbachi feels a bit like Alice’s plunge into the rabbit hole of fantastical creatures – rich, constantly evolving and sometimes unexpected. We set out in 2015 (with staunch backing from WIPRO) with a humble idea of running a Bridge Program in Kodathi GHPS (Government Higher Primary School) along Sarjapur […]

Manimakalai Raja, in the essay ‘Nali Kali: Engaging Every Child in Learning,’ shares the learnings from interventions in multi-grade, multi-level classes in government schools that primarily cater to migrant children; this piece shows how it is possible to work with the government to make a real difference into children’s learning education processes, especially those related to language learning.

we also carry a Photo Essay that features the work of two Bengaluru-based organizations – Makkala Jagriti and Gubbachi Learning Community – who have been facilitating the learning journeys of children from underserved communities.

Manimakalai Raja, in her piece on capacity building in English in her organization, shows how responding to the institutional context of government schools in which they work with, in an organic manner, has been such an integral part of this subject-specific capability development journey.