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The philosophy of unschooling

Claude Alvares is one of the most distinguished personality in alternate education community. A renowned environmentalist from Goa, Claude is the editor of the Other India Press, an alternative publication based in India and the director of the Goa Foundation. Claude is a PhD from the Technische Hogeschool, Eindhoven, in the Netherlands. Presented below is […]

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A Class Apart

The main page of Sunday Pune Mirror carried an article on Swashikshan on August 5, 2012. The Article has been written by Ketaki Latkar and the text is being reproduced below. Home-schooling or deschooling, one would imagine, is all about isolation and moving away from the mainstream. This bold ideology dismisses the conventional formal schooling

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Coming home to school

The news channel NDTV runs a show called India Matters. The show featured a story on homeschooling that ran into two parts. Many homeschoolers in India were interviewed for the programme. Though it is interesting to see homeschooling being talked about in the national media, the programme made many homeschoolers wonder if the show did

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