Learning to think green

The variety of institutions are responding to the demands of environmental education made imperative by a generation familiar with eco-degradation

Counting on origami

The Japanese art of folding paper into decorative shapes empowers tribals with the knowledge of mathematics

Literacy on the move

A programme to provide education to the nomadic Gujjars is showing encouraging results and also checking their exploitation

Books teach green the fun way

Much useful and reasonably priced reading material for children, focussing on environmental issues, is available now.

Teaching children they will inherit the earth

In Nepal, camps for making children more environmentally conscious are proving increasingly popular. And in many families it's the …

Building green citizens

Learning games

Educational tools need not be the prerogative of the privileged

Edusat will educate

But how?

Away from the rat race

Villagers and rural communities, warts and all, can still be places where you can regain your lost spirituality and your moral equilibrium if you …

Children teach elders with play on street

Against the opulent backdrop of the WHO building in the Capital, children of the Anna Nagar slum act out on the street their …

Contacts with young minds

Schoolchildren in Uttar Pradesh delighted themselves collecting leaves and plants for a unique biodiversity competition

Shimla in a shambles

The beautiful resort is fast greying under the onslaught of modernity

For a better tomorrow

There are many in Kerala who just would not have anything to do with the obsolete official education system. They want change, and that, …

An agenda of incoherence

The grossly inadequate education as imparted in our schools has to answer for our general insensitivity towards the environment

A learning experience

NGOs in Bangladesh have made non-formal education a trailblazing success story by employing ingenious teaching methods tailored to the needs of …

A space of their own

A garden for blind persons that explores more than just botanical learning

A gang of ten

A Rajasthan village entrusts anti-malaria campaign to children; they do remarkable work

Schooled in self-rule

What do tribal children living in Nagarhole National Park in Karnataka learn at school? Take pride in what they are, reports NITIN SETHI

Limited democracy

Panchayati raj institutions have not given much justice to Dalits

Focus of reservation lost in protests

Focus of reservation lost in protests

A headmaster and his students save a forest

Who will help her learn?

Merely providing schools is not enough to educate the more than 197.34 million illiterate women in India. Far too often, girls have to drop out …

Under the umbrella

A residential school in Chamtagora has relieved the anxieties of migrant workers native to the area, who spend most of the year away from their …

Dirty RIVER blues

Children of Delhi rediscover Yamuna. And see how everything is being done to reduce it to a drain

A silent worker