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Multiversityconferencesingoa Multiworld Multiversity Taleemnet A word from the editors 1 The captive mind revisited 3 Rural curriculum 9 Multiworld websites 2 The university in ruins 5 Taleemnet news 10 Mutiversity: Work in progress 6 Aksharnandan 11 Multiversity news 7 Vernacular educators 12 Dharampal 8 Educating differently 14 First person: David Hogg 16 2007 Vol.II No.4 A word from the editor Kamiriithu – Multiversity’s critical and no-holds-barred journal on learning and education – is rejuvenated and, after a considerable lapse of time, back again in your hands. Sorry for the inordinate delay. It was never thought we would be short of both: hands and minds. How do small fry like us compete with call centres? Since we had at the very beginning announced we would bring out issues only if and when we had quality stuff, we decided to sit tight and wait for more propitious times and people. Those have finally arrived. Good sense will always prevail. The re-appearance of Kamiriithu is therefore an occasion to rejoice. On the other hand, we must weep as well: in more recent months, we have lost forever two beacon lights – the distinguished Indian historian, Dharampal, and the pioneering Malaysian social scientist, Syed Hussein Alatas. The departure of these two truly inspiring individuals is a gentle but firm reminder that we are not working S with eternal time-frames to bring about the changes we desire. Dharampal and Alatas provided pioneering leadership on how we might become ourselves again. Both MUNDO contributed in a substantial way to redefining or altering our perceptions of the world, one through history, the other through sociology. Many people with far greater resources have achieved almost nothing in comparison. There are now dedicated r websites on both thinkers. (Most of the printed works of the two thinkers can also be e t downloaded from www.multiversitylibrary.com.) A visit to all these sites is bound to t give us inspiration and courage to cope with these rude times. This issue of e S l Kamiriithu also carries notes on both Dharampal and Alatas and some of their s articles and speeches. w e MUCHO This year also happens to be the one hundredth and N fiftieth anniversary of the setting up of the first three s ’ modern universities of India by Britain’s colonial rulers. N k A These institutions ruled the minds of the so-called r o educated people of the vast sub-continent for ninety w years and we have continued to patronise them for a t e further sixty. Mahatma Gandhi, talking of our body P N politic immediately before independence, had hazarded d QUE l the view that we might succeed in getting rid of our r colonisers fairly soon, but it would take us a o considerably longer period of time to extinguish the w i residues of colonization from our midst. Like our t l Dharampal (1922-2006) universities. u E This time the issue of M e Kamiriithu has a total of sixteen richly stacked pages, h eight dealing with multiversity issues and eight with EN QU T taleemnet concerns. Though some of our readers have expressed vehemently that the two should be published separately, we have found it convenient to bring them as a two-in-one. So if you are not interested in the materials that appear either in the first half O (multiversity) or the second half (taleemnet), pass on those sections to someone in your neighbourhood or in MUND your institution or group who might be interested and Syed Hussein Alatas (1928-2007) would be happy to receive the material. N From January, Ram Subramaniam and Vishram Gupte have attached themselves U for week-long Multiversity conferences in Goa. These conferences are held every month. Information about them and the dates fixed for these meetings are posted on the multiworld website. We have also had conferences with Gurveen Kaur from Hyderabad and Anuradha Veeravalli from Delhi. Nyla Coelho from Belgaum and Navina Venkat from Mumbai come for weekly stints to work with Claude Alvares on taleemnet issues, especially the publication of the Learning Sourcebook. Interested? Welcome aboard! 2 Multiworld websites www.multiworld.org alternative learning organic agriculture multiversity msn Multiworld.org is the main This site is exclusively for report- This site deals exclusively with the Yusef Progler from the UAE runs Multiworld website. ing on discussions and experi- field of organic agricultural science an independent Multiversity A related website maintained ments dealing with learning and the workings of the Natural website which also features by Citizen’s International can be experiences outside school walls or Farming Institute. exciting new discussion material, accessed at the following url: outside the framework of ‘factory Traditional agriculture in rare articles and reports on www.citizensint.org schooling’. almost all countries has been Multiversity themes. We are encouraging educa- Taleemnet is actually the first replaced by imported agribusiness You can access the site at: tional activists in every country major network dedicated exclu- science based on use of copious http://groups.msn.com/multiver- within the South to have their own sively to de-schooling or synthetic chemicals and toxic sity Multiworld chapter and site, unschooling experiments in Asia, pesticides. Join the discussions there. The operated by their own core group. Africa and South America. It is In several countries farmers, in site is frequently updated and the Naturally, several of these will be determined to reverse the fact, have completely lost the discussions way out. Everything in their own national, regional or processes of colonial education indigenous knowledge of farming relating to the regime of Western local languages, with crosslinks to which still persist in our countries and are now finding it difficult to academic studies is being chal- the main Multiworld page. despite political independence. lenged with determination, verve The main website will eventu- survive with an alien system of The site aims to create an growing crops that is not only and imagination. ally host discussions in the international community of Progler is also editing a series principal languages of the South unprofitable but actually devas- parents and students who take a tates the environment. of short booklets containing essays basides English: Hindi, Chinese, decision to “walk-out” of school and by important scholars who have Swahili, Spanish, Arabic, Farsi, The site will report on intellec- resume learning using their own tual work carried out by farmers attempted to challenge in a etc. fundamental way Western aca- Multiworld.org also hosts the resources. and innovations in the area of Multiversity site, the Taleemnet Educators, parents and stu- restoring soil fertility, improving demic culture and its various site, the organic agriculture site dents are encouraged to visit the the micro-community of soil associated components. Called the and the (Natural Farming site to learn about the mental and species and organisms, homemade “Radical Essentials Pamphlet Institute). spiritual damage that is done to inputs, etc. Series”, the essays appear in the We also provide linkages to children and learners when they The main activities of organic format of colourful booklets. several other sites which are submit themselves to the coercive farming are carried out under the working in similar directions, processes of schooling. rubric of the Organic Farming including Shikshantar and the After reading the critique, Association of India which has multiversity USA website parents may be interested in Barefoot College. located its central secretariat in Vinay Lal, Indian historian now We envision separate knowing what other parents are Goa. (See its website:www.ofai. Multiworld sites on specific issues doing in different parts of the org.) domiciled in the US and a partici- like the WTO, debt, international country and abroad. pant in both the Penang The first major activity of OFAI conferences on redesign of social law, etc. Any person volunteering The site features stories of has been the conducting of to set up and run such sites for us children who have done better out training camps for farmers eager science curricula, has hosted the is welcome to do so. Please keep us of school than if they had USA equivalent of Multiversity at to turn away from chemical the above site. You can access it at: informed so that work is not continued with it. farming. unnecessarily duplicated. If you The site also provides a One special focus is the http://vlal.bol.ucla.edu/multiver- come across interesting sites that detailed overview of educational sity/. children of organic farmers who The site is designed to assist should be linked with the systems outside the purview of once they go to school, find Multiworld page, please inform us. Western educational institutions. themselves alienated from the students and lecturers in the US The multiworld.org site is All the prominent thinkers on who are interested in pursuing land and from agriculture. The these issues and forming a being updated regularly. We education from the Global South Natural Farming Institute is keen welcome comments and contribu- are also featured, together with on formulating a syllabus for home workgroup on some of tions to the multiworld webpage their writings. Multiversity’s themes. It is schooling of children of such therefore devoted exclusively to from sympathetic colleagues and Links are provided to signifi- farmers, so that they can be well friends in Asia, Africa and South cant home-schooling movements versed with both, the demands of university education and not to America. This Network is not schooling. within the industrialised countries living in the modern world and the designed to be run from above, but where there is an even greater The site also provides details of through its numerous constituents.
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