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Learning to be Frugal, Flexible and Nature-Friendly:
Grassroots Innovations for Inclusive Education and Development
Anil K. Gupta, IIMA and Honey Bee Network [email protected]
How educated are we, really?
Encounter with a shepherd in the desert
“How to trace your sheep
when they get mixed with sheep of another herd?”
The shepherd took a shodh yatra brochure from my hand and said:
“To me all the letters on your paper look alike”
Shodhyatra every summer, every winter
the teacher Withinthe teacher Around (peers)
the teacher in Naturethe teacher among
Common People
Frugality is to affluence what wisdom is to
knowledge
Learning to unlearn
The Honey Bee Network
– Repurposes the inquiry
– Redefines the norms of accountability
– Redesigns pathways for the future
Honey Bee Network
Repurposing the inquiry
– Asking questions about accountability towards oneself
– Share of private, common and public goods in one’s production and consumption basket: portfolio of purposiveness
– Did we create any open source content for children, whom we love, in local language
– Did we dispense with at least one need, living with less to have more
Sounds of silence…
Why does education reinforce inertia and not
innovation?
Social Inertia: why do certain problems remain unaddressed persistently?
http://www.singingsandsbb.com/starfish-lg.jpg
Saga of the starfish
“What are you doing, trying to throw them back into the sea? It are too many!”, exclaimed the lady on the shore.
“You cannot save all of them!” she insisted.
“True, but I can at least save this one”, said the manwhile throwing it back into the sea.
Knowing
Feeling
doing
We know so much, feel only about a little and act on even lesser
Learning from my naiveté, foolishness
“Why did you pluck this twig?”, asked Karimbhai
“But are there not so many of these ‘weeds’ on the roadside?”
“Nature has never anything too many or too much”, he said.
From Inertia to Institutionalisation
of Innovative Mindsets
Learning from Grassroots Teachers
Technology is like
words,
institutions are
like grammarand culture is like
thesaurus
Three pillars of sustainabilityMeghalaya
Creating
open source
standards
of excellence
Institutional heuristics
Meghalaya
A public innovation for public use Jharkhand
When things fill our mind, thoughts don’t find much
place
Take home library in a boxby Pritiben Gandhi
« Postcard Project » by Thakarshi P Kunbar Solving problems with frugality
IGNITELearning from Creative Children
Arnab ChakrabortyClass 12, Kolkatta
Shalini KumariClass 8, Patna, Bihar
NIF engaged a design firm to develop a prototype
Blending of
Passion
Purpose
Performance and
Persistence
Through Platforms
SRISTI, GIAN, NIF, Techpedia.in
Dimensions of learning
1) Artefactual
as a simple replication of idea
2) Analogic
metaphor to inspire
3) Heuristic
as a model or principle
4) Gestalt
configurational level
institutions, technology, culture
National Innovation Clubs
• Search: Celebrating the decade of innovation by scouting and mapping the creativity and innovations in the hinterland
• Spread: Disseminating/cross-pollinating innovations across spaces, social segments and sectors
• Sense and benchmark: Identifying the roots of persistent problems and the mindsets that trigger their continued tolerance in society to solve problems
• Celebrate: Recognising achievers in different social spheres
Shanu Sharma, Vardan, IITK
Image, Speech Recognition and Speech Synthesis
For people with hearing and speaking disabilities
Saurabh Saket and Rahul Ranjan Bhutta College of Engineering & Technology, Ludhiana
by Dhruv Mesana
Has any big company given you a fridge
also provides hot water,
keeps food warm and consumes less electricity?
Head load carrier byRaghunath Lohar
« Vazra »
Bicycle hoe
Lao Yang
Shan Dong Province
Zhang Xingming
Shaanxi Province
Wang Fuhe
Miyun County, Beijing
Gopal Malhari Bhise
Ahmednagar, Maharashtra
Golden Triangle of Creativity
Innovations and Traditional Knowledge
EnterpriseInvestment
Distribute open source, multi-media, local language content in every school
Have a wall with folk art in every school
UnLearning inertia
Redesigning pedagogies
Celebrating grassroots
Creativity
Internalising a frugal future
Role Reversal torole peripheral
Teachers learn from students
Children learn from four teachers
Communities create open source standards of excellence, empathy, equity, and efficiency…………
Authentic Leadership through Learning to be vulnerable
Cross-Pollination
Cross-pollination will cultivate diversity
Diversity will lead to pluralistic passions
Platforms for distributed learning which is frugal, friendly and flexible
Dissolving learning costs across civilsations through open innovation and learning platforms such as the Honey Bee Network
Creativity pervades
Innovation instigates
Knowledge humbles
Wisdom sustains
Image: Eric Comstock www.ericcomstock.us
Creativity pervades
Innovation instigates
Knowledge humbles
Wisdom sustains
Joy of Discovery
– On halloween day, children will see pumpkins at home, to ward off evil spirit, but in school they were taught, believe only in rationality,
– How do they blend sacred and secular
– How do we respect diversity of cutlures, institutions and technological approaches around the world to make our society more creative, compassionate and collaborative
Will you be a bee?