Nature Education

This essay shares how an initiative in the East Kolkata Wetlands is creatively working at the intersections of social art, education and community work to reimagine the space of citizen science of the wetlands.

In this piece, the author shows how mushroom cultivation can be used as a tool to engage communities of learners in processes related to citizen science.

This article discusses initiatives by Nature Conservation Foundation (NCF) in the intersection of conservation and citizen science, and draws some broad learning from the same.

This article demonstrates the process of implementing a citizen science project to simultaneously kindle the love of nature in children and foster learning about the environment.

Environmental Education is regarded as the embodiment of a philosophy which should be pervasive, rather than a subject to be taught and learnt.

In her context setting article titled ‘Nature Learning for All: An Ode,’ Vena Kapoor argues for making nature education central to learning/living processes, even in settings – like our heavily concretized cities – where we think there is very little of ‘nature’ to be found; she makes a case for engaging with all the living beings around us, ranging from the tiny but ubiquitous ants and spiders in our homes to the majestic trees in the neighborhood to know, to learn and to feel deeply for nature.