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From tourists to pilgrims, the pedagogy of traveling

By Sharmila Govande “A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.” <footer> <cite>Oliver Wendell Holmes</cite> <a href=”https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?text=%E2%80%9CA+mind+that+is+stretched+by+a+new+experience+can+never+go+back+to+its+old+dimensions.%E2%80%9D++%E2%80%94+Oliver+Wendell+Holmes&url=https%3A%2F%2Fecoversities.org%2Fwp-admin%2Fadmin-ajax.php” target=”_blank” rel=”noopener noreferrer”> Tweet </a> </footer> </blockquote> As part of our post graduation course in social work (1), we were required to get a glimpse of the local social

September 13, 2020 No Comments

Walking the scarred path or discovering the sacred masculinity in us?

by Nitin Paranjape For the past year, I have been a part of an interesting co-learning experiment called “Mensversity”. The idea first took root in informal dialogues over lunch or chai during the Indian Multiversity Alliance (IMA) meeting at the Deer Park Institute in Bir, Himachal Pradesh. The Indian Multiversity Alliance is a flexible,

September 13, 2020 No Comments

The many shades of love

by Abhishek Thakore and Dan Rudolph Love…oh love! The spice that comes in a million flavours. The joie de vivre. The feeling that makes life worth living. The only emotion that can increase intelligence. The subject of more than half the songs humanity has ever written. The essence of the Sufi’s path. And yet, our

September 13, 2020 No Comments

Emancipation and Nature. How to Draw from the Perspective of Nature? 2/4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cc7ntfKalf8In this episode, we answer the question: what are the emancipatory aspects or elements of an old tree that are not related to dominant ideological forms? Let’s find those tools of emancipation of the tree from dominant views, and create visual discourse of nature’s ideology using oil colours. With concrete and powerful extensions, the tree

September 12, 2020 No Comments

On Nature and Ideology. How to Draw from the Perspective of Nature? 1/4

Symmetry and Abstraction – Hybrid Floral Moments Thinking in a speculative, dialectical and relational manner we can observe that symmetry is a visible aspect easily perceived in nature. In this session we focus on the relation of symmetry and abstraction. To human beings, symmetry appears through abstraction, and symmetric hybrid floral motives become visible in

September 1, 2020 No Comments

Stars Behind Bars | TSOI Documentary

https://youtu.be/I9xtiXlX9oMEver imagined a university inside a jail? Prisons are meant to be a place for reflection, reform and resurrection, but Indian prisons are everything but that. Amidst this general apathy, a pilot education programme at Udaipur Central Jail is showing us what prisons could be. Can prison be a place for healing, dreaming and learning?

August 11, 2020 No Comments

Seeding Earth-connections. Simple ways to hone the ecological sensitivity of learners.

by Rahul Hasija If I would be asked thirty years down the line, a memory from my life that I hold dear the most, I would speak of the week I spent volunteering in Melghat Tiger Reserve in Maharashtra, India doing Tiger census. It involved walking long miles each day in search of evidence

August 11, 2020 No Comments

Vimukt Shiksha Yatra A Virtual Learning Journey

Vimukt shiksha yatra a virtual learning journey from Ecoversities The Shiksha Yatra is envisioned with an intention to inspire ideas, learning and collaborations towards re-imagining education. It will help you pause and reflect to your roots of Education. It is a platform to build new connections, meet visionaries who are doing amazing work in the

July 29, 2020 No Comments

For The Love OF Learning #59 – The Ecoversities Network – 31 May 2016

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=203&v=PYDivkgX6Zw&feature=emb_logoThis text and video comes from For the Love of Learning. Voices of the Alternative Education Movement. It is an interview made in 2016 about Ecoversities. We invite you to listen to this memory of this beautiful journey together. Description: What are ecoversitities? Ecoversitities are a diverse network that both critiques existing education systems that

July 20, 2020 No Comments

E Pū Paʻakai Kākou – Letʻs Share some Salt Together Re-establishing Food Sovereignty in Hawaiʻi

by Kū Kahakalau, Ph.D. and Leilani DeMello “E pū paʻakai kākou” is a Hawaiian saying, which literally means letʻs share some salt together. In traditional Hawaiʻi, it was customary to offer guests, whether family, friends, or a random passerby, food, drink and if desired a place to sleep. “Mai, mai e ʻai!” (Come, come and

July 4, 2020 No Comments

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From tourists to pilgrims, the pedagogy of traveling

Walking the scarred path or discovering the sacred masculinity in us?

The many shades of love

Emancipation and Nature. How to Draw from the Perspective of Nature? 2/4

On Nature and Ideology. How to Draw from the Perspective of Nature? 1/4

Stars Behind Bars | TSOI Documentary

Seeding Earth-connections. Simple ways to hone the ecological sensitivity of learners.

Vimukt Shiksha Yatra A Virtual Learning Journey

For The Love OF Learning #59 – The Ecoversities Network – 31 May 2016

E Pū Paʻakai Kākou – Letʻs Share some Salt Together Re-establishing Food Sovereignty in Hawaiʻi

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From tourists to pilgrims, the pedagogy of traveling

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The many shades of love

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