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Sustainability Education

Humans have endeavored to make their life better by constantly creating and inventing. Largely, it has happened at the cost of the well-being of other species, flora and fauna. Statistics that point to the extent of environmental degradation occurring on a daily, even hourly basis are alarming. The world is at the edge of a dangerous precipice, and sadly, the most educated of us seem to have brought it there! Evidence is all around, making it hard to ignore, that learning in and itself has not exactly taught us to live in harmony with nature or care for natural resources. Majority educational experiences have failed to provide children with enough engagement with the natural world and the immediate environment. We don’t know the world around us enough, thus, kindling in us only a weak desire if at all to fight for it or protect it.

If the goal of education is to help build a just, humane, equitable and sustainable society, then sustainability and environmental education ought to be a central part of a child’s educational experience. The sphere of education must expand to include sustainability thinking and environmental education. A famous quote expresses our thoughts best. “In the end we will conserve only what we love, we will love only what we understand, and we will understand only what we are taught.”

The present educational experience of children teaches them that learning happens by sitting quietly inside a classroom, listening to the teacher, who is the dispenser of ‘knowledge’.  The way learning has been shaped in most of our educational institutions, it provides very little scope for body-mind interaction, for the mind to understand and learn through bodily experiences (Martin. J, 2010) or for learning to take place by doing. Learning is mostly memorizing facts, a cerebral exercise! An education that builds scientific, humanistic as well as aesthetic understanding of the world, through encouragement of physical practice, experience and exploration is the need of the hour.  Students learn about themselves and their relationship with the world, more so through physical practice and an intense engagement that requires beckons all their senses. Sustainability and environmental education encourage this kind of learning, where students not just have ample scope to but are required to engage with the world outside their classrooms.

In this quest to help education create responsible citizens and the educational experience to be a holistic one, Aripana Foundation is fortunate to partner with Wipro Foundation in implementing its Sustainability Educators Program, June 2020-2023.

Aripana Foundation has commenced on what it believes will be a fruitful journey as Wipro Foundation’s partner, undertaking the responsibility to strengthen environmental and sustainability education, sustainability thinking in selected schools of districts in North Bihar.

More updates coming soon!

Author: Aparna Kapur. Illustrator: Swati Agarwal

Book Archive

Delightfully illustrated, endearlingly written Maithili books, created through Project Lemonchoos.

 

Bunty does not like soaps. So, she refuses to clean up. Then one night she has a dream. What happens after that?

बंटी कें साबुन लगाएब पसिन नहि छैक।ओकर माय ओकरा साबुन लगा क’ नहयबा लेल कहैत छथि, मुदा ओ नहि मानैत अछि। एक राति ओ सपना देखलक जाहि मे साबुन राजा बब्ली प्रकट भ’ जाइत छथि। आगां की भेलै? ई खिस्सा पढू आ बुझू।

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Tinku, a little pup at Mangu’s farm is not sleepy at all. He decides to step out into the night and meets many interesting animals.

टिंकु पिल्ला, जे मंगूक खेत मे रहैत अछि, कें निन्न नहि आबि रहल छैक। ओ रातुक सुषमा देखबा लेल बहरा गेल। ओकरा की-की भेटलैक, से बुझबा लेल ई खिस्सा पढू।

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भीमा की एक समस्या है। सुबह-सुबह उसकी नींद नहीं खुलती। एक नन्ही दोस्त उसकी मदद करती है। क्या आप जानना चाहेंगे कि भीमा की नींद कैसे खुली?

भीमा, रामू धोबीक गदहा अछि। ओकर फिरीसानी ई छैक जे भोरे-भोर ओकर निन्न नहि खुजैत छैक। मुदा, एकदिन एकटा युक्ति काज लागि गेलैक। ओहि युक्ति कें बुझबा लेल ई खिस्सा पढू।

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Sukhiya Kaka was a famous singer. He met Dinoo who turned out to be his biggest fan. Together they made quite a pair!

सुखिया कका एकटा प्रसिद्ध गायक छलाह। हुनका दीनू डायनासोर सं भेंट भेलनि, जे हुनक सभसं पैघ प्रशंसक बनि गेलनि। दुनू मिलि क’ जोड़ी बनौलनि।

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इस नन्ही सी लड़की को चारों ओर से न जाने कितनी ही आवाज़ें आ रही हैं। ये आवाज़ें तरह-तरह से उसे बुला रहीं हैं। क्या आप भी उन्हें सुन रहे हैं?

एहि खिस्सा मे एकटा बचिया कs, भाँति-भाँतिक ध्वनि नाचs लेल बजा रहल अछि। की अहां ई ध्वनि सुनि पाबि रहल छी?

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चीकू संसारक सभसँ दुखी बचिया छली। कारण, ओकर माथक ऊपर एकटा मेघ लटकल रहैत छलैक। कचराक मेघ। ओ कचराक मेघ सँ कोना बचलि, बुझबाक लेल ई खिस्सा पढ़ू।

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माँ के कोरा मे बैसबाक लेल सन्नू बड़ पैघ अछि। आ असगर स्कूल जाय लेल बड़ छोट। अहाँ अपने सँ ई खिस्सा पढ़ै लेल बड़ छोट छी? कि दोसरा सँ ई खिस्सा सुनबाक लेल बड़ पैघ? ई पोथी खोलू आ बुझयो।

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सिम्मी अपन बहिन लोलो केँ नीक जकाँ चिन्हैत अछि। ओ आँखि मुननहु बुझि जाइत अछि जे लोलो की कS रहल अछि। बिनु देखनहु लोलोक विषय मे एतेक बात सिम्मी कोना जनैत अछि? बुझबाक लेल ई खिस्सा पढ़ू।

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बच्चा सब बहुत किछु अपने सँ बना सकैत अछि । की की सब ?

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एकटा छोट बौआ ऊपर चढ़नाइ सीख जाइत अछि । मुदा ओ नीचा उतरि पाओत की?

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एकटा छोट बचिया अन्हार मे असगर बाहर चल जायत अछि। ओकरा की भेटै छै?

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ई खिस्सा दूटा भाएक अछि, आ दिन भरि दुनू संगे की करैत अछि।
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दू बहिनक लघु कथा जे बहुत झगड़ैत अछि मुदा एक दोसर सँ प्रेम सेहो करैत अछि।
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