Youth Engagement Pack of the BIG ONE
Leadership, education, and eco-literacy at the Big One event
The Youth Engagement group is one of the 4 themed solution committees working collaboratively to determine what will berepresented andpresented in our Big One “Theme Solution Tent”. Located in the "Village of Solutions" will be the 5 large tents that represent each of the 5 themed solution committees. Surrounding each of the 5 large themed tents will be i ...learn more
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Created: Dec 18, 2007
Updated: Aug 09, 2009
Membership: Open
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Shikshantar
(a.k.a.: The Peoples' Institute for Rethinking Education and Development)
( Community Based Organization )
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There is an urgent need to start thinking differently if we wish to do things differently. This starts with facing the reality that the problems that threaten to overwhelm and destroy India arise from the 'schooled', not from the so-called illiterates. Thus, expanding or reforming the existing system of factory-schooling (whether through schools, distance education, literacy classes or non-formal centers) will not solve the crisis.
Rather, communities must engage in new modes of lifelong societal learning which grow from a larger understanding of and respect for human potential and human dignity, dynamic learning processes and relationships, pluralistic identities and cultural contexts, the human spirit and its connection to the web of life. The challenge before us then is to engage in processes of transdisciplinary reflection, dialogue, vision-building and experimentation in order to:
1. provoke, challenge and dismantle factory-schooling and
2. construct and connect new open learning communities
Rather, communities must engage in new modes of lifelong societal learning which grow from a larger understanding of and respect for human potential and human dignity, dynamic learning processes and relationships, pluralistic identities and cultural contexts, the human spirit and its connection to the web of life. The challenge before us then is to engage in processes of transdisciplinary reflection, dialogue, vision-building and experimentation in order to:
1. provoke, challenge and dismantle factory-schooling and
2. construct and connect new open learning communities
