The Seventeenth Monsoon at Adharshila

July - September 2016 A brief report of activities at Adharshila Learning Centre in the first three months of the new session. We have only written about the activities that took place outside the regular class room study. Please read, give ideas, and share with friends. Volunteer to implement your ideas. Happy Reading Adharshila Team ...

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Nai Taleem and More...Vinoba's Thoughts on Education

Excerpts from Vinoba Bhave, Thoughts on Education. Rajghat, Varanasi: Sarva Seva Sangh Prakashan, 1996 fourth edition.  Chapter 6: SELF-RELIANCE AND FREEDOM  Boys are taught various bits of information in school nowadays, but they are not taught how to acquire knowledge independently for themselves. Many people would agree about the importance of self-reliance in education. Self-reliance, for me, has a very pro­found meaning. It is not merely that the child should be taught some handicraft, some manual skill by which he may support...

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Newsletter: January - March 2016

We are happy to share pictures of various activities that happened at the Adharshila Learning Centre in the first three months of 2016.  We also take this opportunity to thank you for your good wishes and support.  Please scroll down to see all the pages....

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'Farming' Calendar 2016

ART & INSTRUCTION   Dear Friends Hullo. As many of you know we publish a calendar every year to raise funds for the Adharshila Learning Centre, our residential school for adivasi children, in Madhya Pradesh. We know you will be saying – "Calendar ?!! Now ? It’s February. You guys are real late." Well yes. We are late, I guess. But better late than never, we thought. The theme of the calendar this year is ‘Farming’....

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What We Were Upto - October – December 2015

Rooting the school curriculum in the local adivasi culture has been an important concern for us. Use of the local Bareli language for smaller classes, the freedom to talk in their own language, singing folk songs are a routine part of school life of children here. Anniversaries of adivasi freedom fighters are also celebrated to re-enforce a sense of pride in the children about their society. This is important because the text books hardly...

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Who Owns Adharshila ?

Adivasi Leaders with Adharshila children who showed them around. The main question that confronted us at the beginning of the 2016 session was -  Who owns Adharshila ? Adharshila Learning Centre was started in 1998 with a very clear understanding that it has to be built and run with the support of the community through Adivasi organisations in the area. It was seen as part of a larger struggle of the Adivasis to improve their lives....

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