What we do
We are intensively working with various stakeholders in school science education, and are currently expanding our work to working with farmers and communities on natural farming and the science behind it.
We believe learning science is possible with joy, stimulation and deep appreciation of natural phenomena for all children. We model this for both rural and urban middle and high school teachers, student-teachers and science communicators, in specially designed workshops. The workshops aim at capacity building and are typically 3-5 hours each, on one specific science topic. The challenge of deeper conceptual understanding is as important in these as the joy of doing hands-on science activities and experiments. The workshop progresses with lots of questions, concrete activities, careful observations and analysis-cum-discussions. We also endeavour to support the homeschooling community.
We aim to bring joy in learning in the formal curriculum, to build critical thinking abilities and a capacity for inquiry, deeper understanding and connection of formal education with real life. This includes freeing learning from excessive stress, anxiety, competition and comparison between learners. The aim is to take education more towards genuine empowerment of each individual instead of a tool for rejecting and damaging children.
For farmers we conduct sessions to generate an understanding of the science of soil fertility, and practical methods to restore degraded farm soil through talks, discussions, webinars and simple communication materials in several vernacular languages. The aim is to encourage them to transition them towards natural or organic farming methods from artificial chemical fed agriculture, in ways that do not lead to risks and loss for farmers.
The foundation has the following modes of work:
1. Institutional off-site Workshops of one or several days
2. Online webinars
3. Short teacher courses
4. Sustained in-service teacher-education with mentorship for teachers in school systems
5. Children’s camps over several days
Workshop topics currently offered
