Unschooling Jagani Sisters

Hi, just wanted to inform that my daughter Tanishk Jagani got admission in a college in mumbai in 11th std (FYJC), after doing home schooling for 2 years.

She want to experience college life too, so applied for 11th online admission and got the allotment.

Objective of this post is,
This may give confidence and assurance to the parents that a home schooling kid can join / rejoin main stream education.

is important, not the medium or institution. All doors are open.

We withdrew both of our daughters from school for home schooling. She did her 10th from National Institute of Open Schooling NIOS Board

Unschooling Jagani Sisters

Attended Graduation Day on Saturday 29th Feb 2020 at at Bandra West.

Thanks to Womens Self Defense Center-WSDC for providing us training.

Rethinking Education: Here are 26 links that discuss some of the problems with our current industrial schooling and some lovely alternatives that give us hope and inspiration in creating a new educational paradigm. Enjoy.

1. Sir Ken Robinson ~ How Schools Kill Creativity
http://www.ted.com/talks/ken_robinson_says_schools_kill_creativity
The most watched TED Talk with over 25 million views: Sir Ken Robinson makes an entertaining and profoundly moving case for creating an education system that nurtures (rather than undermines) creativity. This talk resonates with so many people.

2. Sir Ken Robinson ~ Changing Education Paradigms
https://vimeo.com/17439081
Taken from a speech given at the RSA, Sir Ken Robinson lays out the link between 3 troubling trends: rising drop-out rates, schools' dwindling stake in the arts, and ADHD. An important, timely talk for parents and teachers. Beautifully presented and lots of food for thought

3. Sugata Mitra ~ Kids Can Teach Themselves
http://www.ted.com/talks/sugata_mitra_shows_how_kids_teach_themselves
Sugata Mitra talks about his Hole in the Wall project. Young kids in this project figured out how to use a PC on their own -- and then taught other kids. He asks, what else can children teach themselves? Extremely inspiring. It is worth watchin his other talks on TED.Com as well

4. Astra Taylor ~ An Unschooled Life
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LwIyy1Fi-4Q
Raised by independent-thinking bohemian parents, Taylor was unschooled until age 13. Join the filmmaker as she shares her personal experiences of growing up home-schooled without a curriculum or schedule, and how it has shaped her educational philosophy and development as an artist. Long, but insightful. The Q&A after the talk is a must watch

5.Satish Kumar ~ Education With Hands, Hearts and Heads:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAz0bOtfVfE
Satish Kumar draws attention to the pervasive lack of a genuine understanding of nature in our education systems, which is contributing to the gross mismanagement of our planet. Kumar makes a compelling case for a more holistic approach to education, connecting our hands, hearts as well as heads.

6. The Forbidden Education
http://www.filmsforaction.org/watch/the_forbidden_education/
"The Forbidden Education" is a documentary film that seeks to explore ideas and visualize those experiences that have dared to change the structure of the educational model of the traditional school. More than 90 interviews with educators, scholars, professionals, authors, mothers and fathers, a tour of eight Latin American countries through 45 educational and unconventional experiences. The film gained more than 25,000 followers on the social networks before its release and a total of 704 co-producers participating in collective financing converted "The Forbidden Education" into a unique phenomenon. A completely independent project of unprecedented magnitude, which accounts for the latent need of growth and emergence of new forms of education. Spanish with English Subtitles...

7. Gever Tulley ~ Reimagining Education
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=upopmzRUe94
Gever Tulley urges us to stop thinking of education as something that we *do* to people, and start thinking of people as voracious self-directed learners. He provides lots of examples of kids engaging in self directed learning in a variety of fields. Great talk to watch to help you learn to trust the learning process.

8. Bunker Roy ~ Learning from a Barefoot Movement
http://www.ted.com/talks/bunker_roy
In Rajasthan, India, an extraordinary school teaches rural women and men -- many of them illiterate -- to become solar engineers, artisans, dentists and doctors in their own villages. It's called the Barefoot College, and its founder, Bunker Roy, explains how it works. Highly Inspiring

9. Hackschooling
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h11u3vtcpaY
When 13 year-old Logan LaPlante grows up, he wants to be happy and healthy. He discusses how hacking his education is helping him achieve this goal.

10. Schooling The World:
http://carolblack.org/schooling-the-world/

If you wanted to change an ancient culture in a generation, how would you do it? You would change the way it educates its children. The U.S. Government knew this in the 19th century when it forced Native American children into government boarding schools. Today, volunteers build schools in traditional societies around the world, convinced that school is the only way to a 'better' life for indigenous children.
But is this true? What really happens when we replace a traditional culture's way of learning and understanding the world with our own? SCHOOLING THE WORLD takes a challenging, sometimes funny, ultimately deeply disturbing look at the effects of modern education on the world's last sustainable indigenous cultures.

11. Seth Godin ~ Stop Stealing Dreams
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXpbONjV1Jc
Seth Godin speaks at TEDX Youth Brooklyn Free School On the future of education & what we can do about it.
Seth Godin is the author of 14 books that have been bestsellers around the world and have been translated into more than 35 languages. Permission Marketing was a New York Times bestseller, Unleashing the Ideavirus is the most popular ebook every published, and Purple Cow is the bestselling marketing book of the decade. His free ebook on what education is for is called STOP STEALING DREAMS and it's been downloaded millions of times since it launched in January, 2012.

12. Summerhill
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZE20ylESsY4
In 1997, Tony Blair's new Labor Government took steps to improve standards in education. Ironically, this would threaten the existence of an unusual little school in Suffolk called Summerhill... So begins an extraordinary documentary about an exemplary school in England, in which the students, the staff and a few formidable barristers take on OFSTED (Office for Standards in Education) and Tony Blair's Labor Government to fight for its existence and the lifeblood of alternative education throughout the world. It was a fight that not only saved the prestigious institution, but proved the very educational principals on which the school was founded. In the process, some remarkable young people were given a chance to see how they had grown within Summerhill's unique democratic system and an up close lesson in modern government.

Further editions.

13) What role does the current education system play in maintaining the destructive economic and social system ruling our world? How do we reimagine education? Collected at the World Social Forum 2015 in Tunis. Listen to the thoughts of
* Uchita de Zoysa of Sri Lanka
* Nomvula Dlamini of South Africa
* Richard Sanders of Australia
* Marta Benavides of El Salvador
* Asish Kothari of India
* Aya Chebbi of Tunisia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FeXrwf0YPM&feature=youtu.be

14) What if we trusted you? Jerry Michalski at TEDxCopenhagen 2012
Jerry Asks the question what if we trusted you? Instead of the current OCD (Obedience, Conformity and Dependence), why not nurture the natural curiosity of children and people.. This is a really great talk that helps you distinguish unschooling from homeschooling and gives the most beautiful description for deschooling...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0fgtvbMT7k

15) Rethinking Modern Schooling
An edited sequence for The Economics of Happiness that ultimately did not make it into the film. It offers a critical look at modern schooling in both the global North and South. With Manish Jain (Coordinator of the Indian NGO Shikshantar and co founder of Swaraj University), Eliana Espillico (with the Peruvian group PRATEC), Transition Town founder Rob Hopkins, and ISEC Director Helena Norberg-Hodge.
https://vimeo.com/90901160

16) Peter Gray Provides a quick short yet important analysis of the education of children in Hunter Gather Societies and how this relates to self directed learning. He provides 6 important conditions for self directed learning.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2BAJ_svbhA

17) A short animation of the six conditions for self directed learning base on Peter Gray's talk (16)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YoE480mzrk0

18) Lainie Liberti and Miro from Project World School and Raising Miro on the Road of Life talk about Worldschooling and Unschooling and saying YES! ..At TEDX Amsterdam 2016... http://www.raisingmiro.com/2016/04/22/tedx-worldschooling-unschooling/

19) Carol Black, filmmaker of Schooling the World provides an inspiring argument for the need and simple way society would transform and learning would be reimagined if we just remove the compulsory from schooling...
https://vimeo.com/126183982

20) Akilah Richards Distills from the Alliance for Self-Directed Education distills the concept Self Directed Education.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FbKQGNE1nUo

21) Grown unschooler, Callie shares with the TEDxCambridgeUniversity audience her experience of 'unschooling'. Different to 'home-schooling', Callie reflects upon how this new educational method and philosophy impacted upon her development. She argues that children need to be put back at the centre of their education.

‘Unschooled’ until age 16 when she started high school in the United States followed by local community college, Callie Vandewiele is now studying for a PhD at the University of Cambridge in Latin American Studies. Through her learning and work she has developed an interest in women’s leadership education and the ongoing interactions between globalised western culture, local cultures and the evolution of ancient traditions.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FIm7dmEJKfM

22) Marley Richards (aged 12) Helps us see education from a child's perspective: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMmu-kopqjw

23) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPk4CQVj_7I
Grace Lee Boggs message to Educators on movement building

24) A short clip from Everybody Loves Raymond
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnaHfhI8DnI

25) The tensions between public education for the good and institutional schooling.. Plus a whole lot more A really great presentation by Carol Black. Wish they gave her more time. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRK72Kfa9f4

26) Profound and inspiring conversation from Adebayo C. Akomolafe at Learning Reimagined 2018

Some of the gems for me in the talk

"Learning does not happen inside human beings, learning happens in partnership with our environments.... The idea that learning happens inside the brain is falling apart.... The very architecture of schooling is falling apart."

"Enchantment is everywhere...."
YES!! I love this idea. I am trying to be really intentional about seeing enchantment everywhere. Being open to it.

"Our children are leading the way and it is time we put them in front and we listen to them more than we thought we were listening to them."
PROFOUND! Got me thinking deeply on how to heed these words in my daily actions. It stimulated some other radical ideas that I am very excited about.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRK8Hc_h-AI

27) Raising Free People - Akilah Richards
“My own definition of unschooling is child trusting, anti oppression, love centred approach to living and learning. It’s so much more than an educational model, it’s a way of life, and it’s rooted in consent, respect and confident autonomy.”
- Akilah Richards

https://youtu.be/UgbD1qrJ0c4

28) Abhijit Sinha from Project DEFY shares some inspiration with the Nooks they set up... https://youtu.be/g4y04sHXeDs

29) Zakiyya Ismail - Education is a Practice of Freedom
Zakiyya takes us on a journey exploring the intersections between learning, education and schooling and how they connect with society. She shows how schooling its current form is a tool of oppression and a violation of our right to education. And that how we live with and educate young people are a social justice concern. Finally she invites us to consider an Ubuntu Pedagogy and invites us to reimagine learning, education and community.
https://youtu.be/2whnE0iROqo

30) Juwayria Asvat Is school destroying children?
Juwayria Asvat, is an 18 year old self directed learner who is passionate about empowerment of the youth as a result of her schooling and unschooling experiences, who believes in reinventing the education system for the betterment of children and the future.
https://youtu.be/f1DBi4y3Z70

Day 2 - Nature at its Best! We saw so many plants of Fruits, Vegetables, Flowers, Grains and many Medicinal plants too. Every plant was giving some nutrients to soil and other plants. Smart Multicrop natural farming. Many new things learned.

Day 2 - Tanishk starting to make by mixing Cowdung and cowurine. At first it felt awkward and smelly, but I enjoyed doing it. It is helping to get food which we eat.


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Day 2 We are making JeevaAmrutam which is used as manure in natural farming to grow plants. It is made from cowdung, cowurine, Dal powder & Jaggery. Cowdung & Cow Urine are rich source of very good microorganisms which is required for growing plants. Dal powder is rich source of proteins and Jaggery rich source of carbohydrates. Both are required to make microorganisms outperform their activities.


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Day 2 Sorting and cleaning is also very important step as if there are bad ones than you get less price for entire lot. If it's good you earn more money. We learnt which is bad and which is not.

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