Abhilash RavishankarCo-founder, yofa.org

www.abhilash.name

India, youth & social change

Youth

Social Consciousness

Why youth?

This is about

Where did it go?

Extra-curricular

Integrate with the curriculum

How do we get it back?

Case Studies

๏ From: Community Lessons – By Julie Bartsch

๏ http://doe.mass.edu/csl/com-lesson.pdf- Massachusetts Dept. of Education- Massachussets Service Alliance- Learn and Save America

Kindergarten Case Study

It is all about learning!

Middle School Case Study

It’s all about learning!

Extra hourBrownie points

Certificate

An evaluation component ( x %) of regular courses/subjects

What is different?

What does it serve?๏ Multiple School-Community Interactions

- Imagine!

๏ Students- Not thrust on them- Grow up to be Socially responsible

๏ A grassroots approach to social awareness

Sir Ken Robinson, TED 2006on Creativity

… the process of having original ideas that have value …

comes about through the interaction of different disciplinary

ways of seeing things.

Scale

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1 project per class per year10 classes per school5 schools in a locality10 localities in a city

=

500 projects every year in each city