Learning spaces

Nandini Shetty demonstrates how walls and curated engagements with nature can be used as learning spaces to reignite children’s innate love for knowledge.

The present issue of Samuhik Pahal focuses on the topic of ‘Work and Education.’ Instead of focusing on how the brave new world of work, which is shifting its contours on an almost everyday basis, is changing our systems of education, we choose to focus here on work itself as a mode of learning. In this issue we also share with you, innovations in learning strategies that are showing us ways of ‘learning to learn’ and of ‘being and working,’ which promise to help us take care for ourselves and of the places we inhabit.

A. R. Vasavi shares the experiences of running an integrated learning program for rural youth in Karnataka, which tries to reorient them towards the possibilities of land-based livelihoods, and build their self-respect and connectedness relating to their communities through place-based education and social transformative learning.

In ‘Empowering People with Disabilities through Creativity and Skill Development,’ Vidhya V shares the learnings from the process of running a Multimedia and Animation Training Centre for the differently abled.

Nandita Raval and Seema Sirohi highlight the importance of four key places which help in fostering children’s learning experiences beyond the classroom.

Jo Chopra McGowan shares the experience as a member of the team that sustains Latika Vihar as an inclusive learning space open to all children, by making play the center of the facilitation.