Educational Innovations

Conserving biodiversity and the knowledge associated with it is impossible without generating curiosity, respect and commitment towards this issue among children. Similarly, incorporation of local knowledge systems in regular curriculum can generate respect for people’s knowledge systems.

Some initiatives taken by SRISTI in the field of education are:

Biodiversity contests

Biodiversity contests have been organised in 14 primary schools of various parts of the country to generate respect for the alternative ecological knowledge systems of children of economically-backward, but ecologically-rich, areas. The contests were also useful in documentation of biodiversity knowledge systems and ecological indicators.

Dissertations on women’s animal husbandry knowledge

SRISTI has been involved in assisting undergraduate women students of a rural college study the animal husbandry practices of local women. The aim of the exercise was to enable the students to learn from the practices of people through a critical process of inquiry. Over the last four years, more than 100 dissertations have been produced.

Informal network of innovative primary school teachers

SRISTI supported workshops of innovative primary school teachers at state and district levels to learn from these self starters. The idea was to stem the high drop out rate of children particularly girl students in biodiversity-rich, economically-poor regions. All efforts to generate incentives for conserving biodiversity will be wasted if the children who should be the ultimate beneficiaries of these incentives become unskilled labourers and migrate from these regions.

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