All Titles from Shikshantar:
The Peoples' Institute for Rethinking
Education and Development (in India)
ON SALE!
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Purchases at these sale prices must be completed no later than 9 pm (Pacific time) on Saturday, November 15, and are limited to stock on hand. Click on any of the links below to find out MUCH MORE about these extraordinary books.
Title List:
A Fate Worse Than Communalism...Or, What We Should Be Talking About in the National Curriculum Debates
Why fear 'saffronisation' (the takeover of the education system by right-wing fundamentalists) when the entire education system - its means and ends, its visible curriculum and its hidden curriculum - is a propaganda machine? This essay offers an analysis, as well as suggests how the spirit of questioning, practical wisdom, and creative expression may enable us to get out of such traps. Followed by commentaries from leading South Asian thinker-doers.
On sale for $5.40
The Dark Side of Literacy
A compilation of articles and personal testimonials which interrogate the promise, purpose and effects of literacy for all. Questions not only the definitions of and impact of literacy and the textual mind, but also its connections to various aspects of human life: gender, local languages, arts and culture, nature and ecology, knowledge systems, social relationships.
On sale for $5.40
Instead of Education: Ways to Help People Do Things Better
This is a seminal work by John Holt, former public school teacher and pioneer of the unschooling/homeschooling movement in the United States. Holt clarifies his critique of compulsory factory schooling, and its deadly effects on our minds and spirits, and shares numerous possibilities for a life of 'doing' (not education).
On sale for $10.80
McEducation For All? - Opening a Dialogue Around UNESCO's Vision for Commoditizing Learning
This booklet doubles as the August 2003 edition of the Resisting the Culture of Schooling Series (#5). The voices from civil society include: Shilpa Jain, Manish Jain, Pat Farenga, Munir Fasheh, Paige Raibmon, Vivek Bhandari, Yusef Progler, Lisa Aubrey, Sanat Mohanty, Ram Subramanian, Zaid Hassan, Jan Visser, Vachel Miller, Vineeta Sood, Linda Mbonambi, Gustavo Esteva, Dania Quirola, Rick Smyre, Jeny Gidley, Bob Stigler, David Wolsk, Ashish Kejriwal, Sylvia Lee, Jamie Schweser, Venkatesh Iyer, Arif Tabassum, Nitin Paranjape, Fode Beaudet, Ekundayo J.D. Thompson, Ash Hartwell, Paul Cienfuegos, Nesar Ahmad, Manish Bapna, Makarand Paranjape, Prashant Varma, and Jock McClellan.
On sale for $6.30
Paths of Unlearning
Features eight young peoples' stories of how they are unlearning dominant notions of progress, schooling, development and success, and in the process, are learning deeply about their selves and their world. Followed by reflections on unlearning from leading thinker-doers from around the world.
On sale for $8.10
The Poet's Challenge to Schooling: Creative Freedom for the Human Soul - A Generative and Critical Analysis of Rabindranath Tagore's Innovations in Shiksha
A study on Rabindranath Tagore's ideas of and experiences with human learning and systemic change. It offers a sense of Tagore, through his English writings, and of Santiniketan, through observations and interviews, and invites readers to see how much we can learn from both today. Followed by commentaries from leading thinker-doers in India and around the world.
On sale for $7.20
Unfolding Learning Societies: Challenges and Opportunities
The first in a series to unmask the schooling society and the Education for All agenda, and to explore existing and new learning communities/experiments for the 21st century. This issue seeks to generate conceptual clarity around the linkages between human learning and post-colonial thinking, spirituality, diversity, decentralization and more. Contributors from India, South Africa, the U.S., and the UK.
On sale for $7.20
Unfolding Learning Societies: Deepening the Dialogues
Deepens the conversations around learning societies, by questioning assumptions (of sustainable development, tradition, gender), exploring processes (like deprogramming, dialogue, nurturing, wisdom) and sharing experiences (in leadership, with youth, in media, through learning parks). Contributors from India, Pakistan, Kenya, Lebanon, Australia, and the U.S.
On sale for $8.10
Unfolding Learning Societies: Experiencing the Possibilities
The third volume of the series, which focuses on concrete experiences with decolonization, community media, activist networks, learning cities and more. Contributors from India, Mali, Kenya, Ghana, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Japan, Mexico, Aotearoa/New Zealand, France, the U.K., and the U.S. This book is a must-have for anyone serious about rethinking education for the 21st century.
On sale for $8.10
Voices From Mewar
Stories, poems, proverbs and sayings from Mewar, a region of southern Rajasthan, India. Translated into English from the original Mewari, they convey local peoples' resistance to dominant systems, models and their processes of institutionalization, as well as their clarity in knowing what kinds of learning and living are meaningful for them. Adds an entirely different dimension to 'civil society' perspectives.
On sale for $7.20
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