Shikshantar collaborates with many networks and ecosystems around India and the world.
Glimpses of the first Ecoversities Asia Gathering in Bangkok Thailand in September, 2022.
Manish Jain explores the idea of non-violence in conversation with Rajni Bakshi.
This a talk on the Future of Education given by Manish Jain in the Dragon Dreaming International Conference.
Welcome To Homo Giftus
The Udaipur Times team, led by Alfiya Khan and Farhina Ansari, speak to Manish to explore his insights, purpose and vision for Shikshantar and the unSchooling movement.
Oasis-Gujarat hosts a conversation with Manish Jain in Hindi on his thoughts on education.
Listen to Manish Jain speak about McEducation for All and the 3 Ds (Debt, Diploma, Deadlihoods) on World Localization Day 2020. This event was organized in partnership with Local Futures.
Manish Jain and Shikshantar Andolan was thrilled to partner with Local Futures and Helena Norberg Hodge to co-host World Localization Day 2020.
Listen to Manish Jain speak about Localization, Slow Food, Happiness and Well Being at the Indigenous Terra Madre 2015 in Shillong by the Slow Food Network,
Vidhi Jain speaks at the 10th School Choice National Conference, organized on 14 December 2018 at India Habitat Centre, New Delhi. Hosted by Centre for Civil Society.
A beautiful invitation from the Ecoversities Alliance planetary gathering in Mexico 2019.
Listen to Manish Jain speak at the ColaborAmerica Festival in Brazil.
Vidhi Jain speaks at the Economics of Happiness Conference in Ladakh, 2019
Talk by Manish Jain at Economics of Happiness Conference in Ladkah.
Interview with Manish Jain on how to build your own ecoversity or alternative university based on the gift culture with Global Ecovillage Network in Thailand.
Manish Jain speaks at the Economics of Happiness in Byron Bay, 2019.
An invitation to Malala to rethink education at the Voices of Hope Conference, New York.
ecoversities: learners and communities reclaiming diverse knowledges, relationships and imaginations to design new approaches to higher education
Watch Vidhi Jain's Josh Talk on How Schools kill creativity and why she chooses to unschool.
Download the Ecoversities Film Festival and learn how to host it in your community.
Vikalp Sangam features alternatives in the full range of human endeavour as they take place in India.
This anthology explores many aspects of the gift culture - trust, care, hospitality, sharing economy, copyleft, forgiveness, vulnerability, etc. - from around the world.
Join the International Alliance for Localization.
This is Manish Jain's plenary talk at the Economics of Happiness conference, held in Portland, Oregon in February 2015.
Stories from our first Ecoversities Gathering in August 2015 in Tamera, Portugal.
The second Giftival - a Celebration of the Gift Culture - was co-hosted by Swapathgami Network in Rome, Italy in April, 2015.
Shikshantar participated in the Economics of Happiness conference in Byron Bay (Australia)
Manish Jain is a leading critic of the "hidden curriculum" of modern compulsory education, and the founder of Shikshantar
What if... money could speak? What would it tell us? What if... you had $1 million dollars? What would you do with it?
Since meanings in life are contextual and experiential, I will write about my understanding of mujaawarah basing it mainly on my experiences and making sense of them.
Around the world, in puddles of silent reclamation, young people, communities and inspired collectives are co-enacting a radically different narrative about education and development
Is the Right to Education a blessing or a curse? This pamphlet seeks to open a debate on the Right to Education Campaign.
Learning Parks was one of the first experiments co-created by Shikshantar in Udaipur in the year 2000
What lies have you been taught by your school? How have you been trying to unlearn them?
Factory-schooling is guilty of its own deadly sins. It is important for those working in the field of education to understand the serious damage that factory-schooling does to our children and to our wider species.
