This article was compiled after much deliberation on the Swashikshan online e-group, following individual responses to a questionnaire prepared by…
Yearly Archives: 2012
Slow Learning
We often ask, what is learning? Now let us ask, what is slow learning? 1. Slow In Space and Time…
Interview with Dola Dasgupta: Perspective on Living and Growing Without School
Right now, education, in India, is in the throes of change. The Right to Education Act was established recently. With…
History of Homeschooling
Homeschooling as an urban movement started about three decades ago in the US. Some people who were religious did not…
Homeschoolers Meet in Delhi: Questions, Reflections, Lessons Learned
And, thus our paths converged…. I had not known some until that very moment. Few I’d known for only a…
Boards and Homeschoolers
“Okay, so you are homeschooling your child……but what about his future? Will he go back to school sometime? Will he…
Open up. Live a little
Life is learning. As we look back at each day in the months and years we’ve come through, they seem…
Collaborative Learning
My current favourite definition of education is: Engaging with everything living and non-living. It is possible that in India our…
SwashikshanTV
The seed for SwashikshanTV was sown in a casual Facebook post on the Swashikshan page, a few months ago; where…
Allowed to just be!
Priya Desikan is a homeschooler from Chennai. At the Swashikshan launch she shared with us how patiently and heart wrenchingly…