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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,

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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?

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Second Pacific Region Ecoversities Gathering

By: Ku Kahakalau Waiʻanae Mountain Range from Kahumana The 2nd Pacific Region Ecoversities Gathering was held from July 19 through the 21, 2019 at Kahumana, an organic farm on the Waiʻanae Coast of the island of Oʻahu. This area is known for its high concentration of Native Hawaiians and other Pacific Islanders. Pacific Region Gathering

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2nd Regional Ecoversities Gathering of Our Americas 2019

https://youtu.be/1DZnSc9L66gIntroduction  Corazón, Corzón, Corazón, Mi Corazón Background  30 Projects, Leaders, Weavers, and Seeds met in the Ecovillage of Chambalabamba with the purpose of reinvidicaiting our knowledges and practices of learning and healing. We re-imagined pedagogical processes which are both significant and relevant to the co-construction and design of a new earth. The call of our

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European Regional Ecoversities Gathering 2019: Inviting the threshold. Art, Life, Pedagogy in the unfolding of the everyday

Lecce (Italy), 27.12.2019 – 3.01.2020 By Alessandra Pomarico The first European regional gathering was held in Lecce (Southern Italy) on the threshold between the year 2019 and 2020, a kitchen and a garden, the visible and the invisible, the known and the unknown. Co-hosted by artist Emilio Fantin (Lac o Lemon Foundation, Italy) and curator/educator

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Arab Ecoversities gathering in Jordan 2019: Cultural Horizon Mujaawarah

SUMMARY Hosting Organizations: Taghmees for Training, Jordan, in consultation with Cairo Institute of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Egypt Time & Place: 4 nights/5 days (September 20th – September 24th), on a family-run eco-farm in Dibeen, Jerash located in the north of Jordan. Participants: 30 people from 9 Arab countries representing Jordan, Palestine, Iraq, Syria, Egypt,

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First African Ecoversities gathering report

A month prior to the Global gathering of 2019 in Michoacan, Mexico we had come together at the source of the Nile near Jinja in Uganda for a First African Ecoversities gathering. We extended personal invitations and reached out through our networks to share about the community of learning practitioners from around the world that

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Student and Alumni Experiences at Nav Gurukul

NavGurukul is a non-profit where we run a one-year residential program for underprivileged students to learn Software Engineering. The course is free for the students who clear the entrance examination. Our alums work at leading technology companies like MindTree & ThoughtWorks. Most of our alums are earning more than ₹25,000. Learn more about the 1

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