Fwd: FW: "Our Land, Our Life'' the book SOME INSPIRATION

[Pradeep Pillay]

Hi guys,

           Hope you all are keeping well. Just came across an older email Thought it might be interesting to you.

Kind regards,

Pradeep Pillay

VT (life..and beyond...)

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From: Maniza thakkar <mani...@hotmail.com>
Date: Sun, Oct 14, 2012 at 7:39 AM
Subject: FW: "Our Land, Our Life'' the book SOME INSPIRATION
To: Pradeep Pillay <pradeep...@gmail.com>

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Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2012 10:06:45 +0530
Subject: Fwd: "Our Land, Our Life'' the book
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From: Nyla Coelho <tale...@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 6:45 PM
Subject: "Our Land, Our Life'' the book
To: Our Land Our Life <childre...@gmail.com>

Pl see...

Dear all,

This announcement was circulated on the 2nd of October through some online groups, many have written back with words of encouragement. Some who got to know of it from others too have written back. I am sending this one to those who are on my mail list and may or may not have seen it. If this has come back into your mail box, apologies.

with regards,

Nyla

 

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From: Ram <buddh...@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 9:57 AM
Subject: Re: Publication Announcement: "Our Land, Our Life"

ERRATA: the books can be ordered from childre...@gmail.com this was wrongly mentioned in the image sent earlier. 

ram

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On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 9:49 AM, Ram <buddh...@gmail.com> wrote:

Gandhiji's "Nai Taleem" has gained much interest in recent times out of a sense of suffocation some people feel with the current education system and desperation of modern way of life. Are there other ways of doing education / learning / gaining knowledge, is a question that has troubled many of us. Those who are troubled by this belong to several background, from individual quest of free seeking of knowledge that is irreverent to the world around to a collective incremental changes to prevailing system that doesn't forbid compatibility to status quo. Individual dharma and prarabdha determine where their quest leads them and how it manifests.  

Periodically we come across attempts being made to collect, collate and present some of these lessons. TaleemNet, a part of Multiworld India has been doing that through its publications. Like many civil society initiatives of such kind, TaleemNet has been a one-person show carried with the persistent goodwill, periodic participation and occasional donation of a few. Ms. Nyla Coelho, coordinator of this initiative has been a constant blip of a reminder in several radar screens of alternate education reminding people of Gandhian effort guided by the big light house persona of Dr. Claude Alvares for anyone attempting such a venture. 

"Our Land, Our Life" is a compilation of several ventures by alternate thinkers on rural education of practices, principles and ideas put together by Nyla. The first time I heard of a 'rural curriculum' was when I was in OFAI office in Goa in 2008 when Nyla spoke of compiling a rural curriculum. Like many such amazing ideas, it has taken several years, iterations and unsatisfied exacting standard validations to reach a point when it is published due to the sheer labour pain of holding such ideas for way too long. The product is a beautiful mosaic of thoughts, ideas and practices.

This book will be released in a side event during the international biodiversity conference in Hyderabad later this month. It is appropriate that such thoughts and ideas that seed diverse ideas of knowledge should be planted amidst international talks on biodiversity. Please find enclosed the details of the publication, do write and book your copies, donate and distribute if you can afford, keep the spirit of Nai Taleem alive, it carries the ideas that can still help build a better world. 

regards,
ram

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