Vidyasagar Nursery
- Years
- 2020–2023
- Area
- Education
- Status
- Completed
A classic rural school with one blackboard and no funds. The foundation adopted Vidyasagar Nursery on the belief that a community-driven, privately co-funded model is the only sustainable answer to the primary education crisis in rural India.
The work covered infrastructure, teacher skill-building and an entirely new curriculum. Local volunteers were developed as teachers, which supplemented household incomes as well as staffing the school. Learning kits in the vernacular were introduced to reduce dependence on textbooks, and a makers’ camp ran alongside the curriculum.
The intent throughout was attitude change as much as outcomes — demonstrating shifts in learning so that parents and the wider community would believe in a holistic methodology.
In pictures.
On film.
From the archive.
Posts written while the project was running, from the foundation’s Work in Progress journal.
- Establishing the Credo
- Learning through the Arts – Sudip Maiti, Founder – Artwave, Medinipur
- A child (3+) engages with a Learning Kit, for the first time in her life
- Day with Alexa
- Re-purposing “Learning Kits” in vernacular
- Art Education at our Nursery
- The young makers of FALA Club
- Makers Camp at Vidyasagar Nursery School
- Saraswati Pujo 2022
- How Turiyo Foundation is impacting ECE
- Vidyasagar Nursery Khejuri Purba Medinipur – Journey 2021-22
- VNS, Purbo Medinipur – Cultural Day Speech – Sandip Maiti 2022
- Learning Kits help reduce the burden of Text Books in Rural Nursery