Vimukt Shiksha was created to liberate the vision and understanding of education from factory-schooling, and to develop learning systems that liberate the full potential of human beings. It seeks to stimulate and inspire teachers, practitioners, and policymakers by hosting a trans-disciplinary platform for mutual sharing of innovative visions, ideas, research, resources, and experiences around societal learning.

We welcome and encourage your reactions, questions, suggestions, and support. Vimukt Shiksha is also available in Hindi upon request.

• Issue 1: Understanding Human Intelligences
• Issue 2: Understanding Wisdom
• Issue 3: Engaging the Global Media
• Issue 4: Exploring Conflict Transformation
• Issue 5: Learning for Democratic Living
• Issue 6: Rediscovering Our Creativity
• Special Issue (Issue 7): Unfolding Learning Societies: Challenges and Opportunities (in PDF format)
• Issue 8: Resisting Schooling
• Special Issue (Issue 9): Unfolding Learning Societies: Deepening the Dialogues (in PDF format)
• Issue 10: Learning to Challenge the Global Economy
• Special Issue (Issue 11): Unfolding Learning Societies: Experiencing the Possibilities
• Special Issue (Issue 12): If the Shoe Doesn't Fit? (in PDF format)
• Special Issue (Issue 13): Paths of Unlearning
• Special Issue (Issue 14): Other Worlds of Power (in PDF format)

Udaipur as a Learning City

• Concept Paper: Udaipur as a Learning City - Vidhi Jain
• A Search for Meaning: Udaipur as a Learning City - Vidhi and Manav
• Concept Paper: Critical Media Awareness - Manish Jain
• Concept Paper: Community Cultural Articulation Technology Center - Jennifer Johnson and Shilpa Jain
• Qualities of an Educated Teen for the 21st Century: Reflections on the Study Process with Teachers in Udaipur - Vidhi Jain
• Researching Tourism in Udaipur (background note)
• 21st Century Artists: Children's Creativity and Self-Esteem - Manav and Shilpa
• "If Not Schooling, Then What?": Learning Parks of Possibilities - Shilpa, Sumi, Ajay, Parijat
• 21st Century Africa Bulletins (Issues #1 - #9) - Isaac Ochieng and Charles Otieno (eds.)
• Yuva Halchal (youth bulletin)
• Regenerating Our Languages and Expressions for Uncovering Peoples' Potential: Mewari in the ULC Process-Project - Shilpa Jain
• World Bank Rhetoric vs. World Bank Realities: Udaipur Citizens' Letter to the World Bank
• The Art in Everyday Life: Theater as a Channel for Creative Self- and Community-Expression - Eron Sandler
• Samvaad ki Roshni - Neesha Noronha
• Footpaths: Reaffirming Walking - Shilpa Jain
• Rang Bharey Jeevan Mein Art Festival - Jennifer Dickinson
• Committee for a Hi-Fi Udaipur - Sweta Daga
• The Power of Water: Rainwater Harvesting in Udaipur - Sweta Daga
• Tree of Learning: Painting Murals in Udaipur - Shreya Janssens-Sannon
• Greenleaf Ratings - Lisa Thacker and Vishal Singh Dhaybhai
• Udaipur as a Learning City (slideshow film) - Manish Jain
• Mithai Milan: A Festival of Healthy Sweets (slideshow film) - Manish Jain
• Shining Stars of the Lake City - Shikshantar team

PHOTO ESSAYS

Wheel: Bicycle Powered Machines
Hamo Desi Mela (Udaipur's Organic Market)
TV Turnoff Week
Tai Chi Workshop
Herbal Gardens and Nursery
Rainwater Harvesting
21st Century Artists
Organic Farming in the City of Udaipur
The Spirit of Rakshabandhan
Images of Learning Parks
Seekh Sareera Upajeh...
Kani Ke Re Kagla
Hoonkara De Re Vagla
Rang Bharey Jeevan Mein

Resisting the Culture of Schooling

• Reclaiming Our Creativities from a Ready-Made World - Manish Jain
• How Factory-Schools are also Like Big Dams - Shilpa Jain
• The (Mis)Education of a Nation: Hip Hop's Critique of and Alternatives to the Education System - Wayne Marshall
• Chandresh - “i am crazy”
• Exposing the Illusion of the Campaign for Fundamental Right to Education - Selena George and Shilpa Jain - also available in spanish -
• Letter to the Members of Parliament – Shikshantar Andolan
• A Fate Worse than Communalism: Or, What We Should Be Talking About in the National Curriculum Debates – Shilpa Jain
• Continuing the Dialogue... – Various Authors
• Facing the Violence – Shikshantar Andolan
• Voices from Mewar – Dayal Chandra Soni, Baavji Chattur Singhji Maharaj, and the Popular Wisdom of the Mewari People
• The Dark Side of Literacy – A. Meenakshi, D. Stuchul, D.C. Soni, G. Esteva, J. Ellul, L. Shlain, M. Prakash, P. Dey, R.M. Torres
• McEducation for All? - Various Contributors
• Healing Ourselves from the Diploma Disease - Various Contributors
• Reflections on the Now Activism - Various Contributors
• What's the Real Story? Generating a Dialogue on the MDGs - Various Contributors
• Nai Taleem Film Festival 2007-08 - brochure, profile of films, sample films
• Nai Taleem Film Festival 2006-07 - brochure, profile of films, sample films

Stories of Resistance

• Why Are You So Impractical? – Vivek Bhandari
• Anti-Career Manifesto – Tim Desmond and Rebecca Reeder
• Subverting the Three R's: Reading, Writing and Freedom – Zaid Hassan
• The Geek Shall Inherit the Earth – Mako Hill
• Have a Little Faith in Me – Shilpa Jain
• Dancing with the Universe – Marianne Knuth
• The Year of Hope – Kate McAfee
• Of Resistance and Relationships – Isaac Ochien’g
• A Dramatic Dialogue with Myself – Charles Otieno-Hongo
• The Disaffections of Daily Life – Yusef Progler
• Schools, Teachers, and the Eclipse of Freedom – Thomas Pruiksma
• The Journey Home? – Eron Sandler
• Struggle for Learning: Story of an Un-Caged Parrot – Mainus Sultan

Families Learning Together (in PDF form)

• Newsletter - Issue 1
• Co-Learning with Kanku: Experiences from 2006 - Vidhi Jain, et al.
• Newsletter - Issue 2

Swapathgami (in PDF form)

• Hindi Issue 1 - March 2004
• Hindi Issue 2 - June 2004
• Hindi Issue 3 - September 2004
• Hindi Issue 4 - December 2004
• Hindi Issue 5 - March 2005
• Hindi Issue 6 - May 2005
• Hindi Issue 7 - August 2005
• Hindi Issue 8 - November 2005
• Hindi Issue 9 - February 2006
• Hindi Issue 10 - June 2006
• Hindi Issue 11 - November 2006
• Hindi Issue 12 - March 2007
• Hindi Issue 13 - February 2008

• English Issue 1 - January 2005
• English Issue 2 - April 2005
• English Issue 3 - July 2005
• English Issue 4 - October 2005
• English Issue 5 - March 2006
• English Issue 6 - October 2006
• English Issue 7 - February 2007
• English Issue 8 - August 2007

• Cycle Yatra (film)

Indian Innovations in Shiksha

• The Poet's (Rabindranath Tagore) Challenge to Schooling: Creative Freedom for the Human Soul - Shilpa Jain
• The Ills of Our Present Education and the Gandhian Basic Education as a Remedial Measure - Dayal Chandra Soni
• Maria Montessori: The Woman and the Method - Aya Kimoto
  

Policy Papers and Proposals

• The Blindness of Our Times - Shilpa Jain
• Reclaiming Shiksha in Our Lives - Manish Jain
• Appropriating ICTs for Cultural Articulation and Dialogue - Manish Jain
• Media as Education, Education as Media - Shilpa Jain
• Resisting the Tyranny of Indicators: Regenerating Learning Ecologies - Shilpa Jain
• In Search of a New Paradigm of Quality Education - Manish Jain
• Freeing Expressions: Letting the Real Flowers Bloom - Munir Fasheh and Shilpa Jain
• Engendering New Visions of Gender for Learning Societies - Shilpa Jain
• World's Apart: A Critical Analysis of the National Curriculum Framework in Context of Gandhi's Ideas of Education - Shilpa Jain
• Rethinking Decentralization for Nurturing Learning Societies - Shilpa Jain
• Redefining the Politics of Presence: Women in Panchayati Raj Institutions in Rajasthan and Kerala - Shilpa Jain