Towards "Swaraj" - Decolonizing our Lives
January 29, 2023 11:00 AM
GMT
50 minutes
Meet
Manish Jain (co-founder of Shikshantar: The Peoples’ Institute for Rethinking Education, Swaraj University and Complexity University, India)
Manish Jain is deeply committed to creating new models of unlearning for the 21st century in order to regenerate our diverse knowledge systems, free our cultural imaginations and expand our consciousness. He has served for the past 19 years as Co-Founder of Shikshantar: The Peoples’ Institute for Rethinking Education and Development based in Udaipur, India and has worked intensively with children, youth and grassroots communities. He is co-founder of the Swaraj University which is India’s first self-designed learning university dedicated to regeneration of local culture, local economy and local ecology. He is also a co-founder of the Learning Societies Network and has pioneered the Learning Societies Unconference in India.
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Session Details
Join us in this Activist Classroom session to hear from Manish Jain, co-founder of Shikshantar: The Peoples’ Institute for Rethinking Education and Swaraj University in India, as he delves into the concept of "Swaraj" or self-rule. Manish will share his insights on the importance of decolonizing our lives and education systems in order to regenerate our diverse knowledge systems, free our cultural imaginations and expand our consciousness.
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