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Learning from the land

Rural children find the school curriculum offered by the Department of Education to be far removed from their life and reality and hence rather useless. Rural India can teach its children best when the learning is related to the land and the village. A few attempts in this direction have been made. The Natural Farming Institute, Organic Farming Association of India and Taleemnet have made some attempts to design a rural curriculum. A document in draft from is also available. Persons interested in pursuing it further are most welcome to take the effort further or collaborate with us.

rural curriculum (draft)

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Over the past 200 years -- in Asia, Africa and South America -– the natural capacity to learn has been suppressed and substituted by a compulsory, imported, education system that has consistently failed to respect environment (nature), culture or indigenous knowledge. Neither does it encourage or endorse the values of natural and innate creativity or personal courage and freedom. Not unnaturally: it was once installed by colonial rulers. Though they have long since departed, the system continues to rule.

The Multiworld Network is a growing association of people from Asia, Africa and South America, all joined together in a common objective to end that rule and thereby restore the diversity of learning that existed from times immemorial. Multiworld welcomes people infected with a similar spirit and conviction to join this enterprise and to fight to restore a world in which many worlds are once again warmly embraced.

The Network functions through three sub-projects: Multiversity, Taleemnet and the Natural Farming Institute.

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