Learning Centers

Sikshan the Eklavya Way – A Two-Decade-Long Journey with Learning Centers

In this issue, we also carry an interview with Eklavya, an organization that has been experimenting with plural ideas and practices of learning centers for more than two decades. It has used its experiences in these spaces for building deep engagements with the communities and people it works with, for improving learning-related processes in governmental schools, and in developing its grounded thinking about democratic education.

By Rajesh Khindri | 17 mins read | 15 April 2021

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What is a Learning Center?

In a deeply moving opinion piece, educationist K T Margaret both defines and broadens our understanding of learning centers by bringing the person of the child to the focus of our concerns and by showing how that soft and often derided emotion – love – has to be present in all our interactions with children to create possibilities of learning.

By K T Margaret | 6 mins read | 12 April 2021

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Democratizing Education through Learning Centers

The ‘Ground Zero’ piece highlights how organizations of many different kinds across the country are trying to democratize the space of education through the learning centers that they run.

By Chirag Sutar | 8 mins read | 12 April 2021

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The Journey Starts Where the Learning is Now and Ends When the Learner is Successful

Beginning of the Journey Samerth started its first learning center in 2017, in one of the most densely populated low-income housing areas of Ahmedabad. This was not our first initiative in education. Before this, we had worked in the area of early education for more than a decade. The learning center was envisaged as a […]