by Dilip Jain A human being is designed to automatically develop wisdom based on a combination of his personal experiences, exposures and education. However, in today’s modern world there is such heavy influence of capitalist/ consumerist narrative that often development of wisdom is not a personal journey but driven by someone else’s agenda. In this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTh7G8K_bZ0&ab_channel=ThousandShadesofIndiaEducation is nothing but transforming humans into more empathetic, enterprising, conscious and responsive beings. Education is the process that helps people discover themselves and realise their true potential in the complete sense of being human. It is a process that helps a person find meaning and purpose in being useful to the society, equipped with
“Attention-Eclipse” (2023) by Ana Pura, Isadora Martins and Tarik Fraig The authentic and pure values — truth, beauty and goodness — in the activity of a human being are the result of one and the same act, a certain application of the full attention to the object. Three learning activists gave themselves the opportunity
https://youtu.be/w_meqpXNB6U[english below] TEJIENDO ReEXISTENCIAS es un documental colaborativo que nos invita a conocer historias, voces, corazonares y sueños que se han encontrado en el camino colectivo, familia ampliada que llamamos “MUSHUK AWAY” (nuevo tejido). Es una invitación a enREDarnos para seguir escribiendo esta historia…. ! JUNT@S! A todas las personas que han sido parte de
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2SW4hcKM9U&ab_channel=REEVO~English Below~ A un año del fallecimiento del maestro Gustavo Esteva, su amigo y colaborador Franco Augusto Iacomella nos comparte esta entrevista que le hizo a finales de 2019. Hasta ahora solo se encontraba disponible parcialmente en forma de texto, en una edición especial de la Revista Magisterio de 2020 (disponible aquí: https://evo.re/magisterio) Gustavo nos comparte
The Ecoversities Alliance held its first Asia-wide gathering in September, 2022 in Bangkok, Thailand. It brought together 25 innovative educators who are re-imagining higher education to share experiences and co-create. We were honoured to be joined by Thai elder Sulak Sivarska.
https://youtu.be/QKVRupUAb4gSAPNE | UDAIPUR AS A LEARNING CITY In 2021, Swaraj University started the Swaraj Shakti Girls Leadership Program for young tribal women in Udaipur. These women have been labelled as ‘failures’ by formal education and are currently working as domestic help. The dream is that these women will become powerful leaders in their communities and
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GgXDP4izbns&ab_channel=EcoversitiesSulak Sivaraksa is a Thai intellectual and activist, who has played a leading role in the mobilisation of Thailand’s civil society. His life-long activism has involved the creation of a string of social welfare and development organisations; the proposal of alternatives to consumerism; and his concern for democracy, human rights and accountable government. This talk
La Casa de Cultivo, El Semillero es un espacio en el que se promueve el buen vivir, por medio del comercio justo, cursos y talleres formativos que impulsan el conocimiento crítico por medio de distintos saberes, desde la ecología de los saberes de quienes asisten al espacio; así mismo el campo de la salud es
Produced and Edited by Begonia Santa-Cecilia This film collects some of the visual materials recorded in a retreat in Parma, Italy, in 2019, which brought together thinker and activist Silvia Federici together with the Feminist Research on Violence, and women from different backgrounds. We gathered to share experiences, feelings, and processes resonating with Federici’s experience,
The Ecoversities Alliance is a community of learning practitioners from around the world committed to re-imagining higher education to cultivate human and ecological flourishing in response to the critical challenges of our times.
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