by Shantanu | Feb 17, 2021 | Consultancy Services, Experiential Education
* Being authentic and helpful is influence enough * There are those rare moments when you discover things for yourself and which then stay with you forever. I am talking of small, even insignificant things, nothing original or earth shattering. Just those moments when...
by Shantanu | Feb 10, 2021 | Experiential Education
* I forget what I was taught. I only remember what I have learnt. – Patrick White * What is Experiential Learning (EL) Simply put, EL is ‘learning by doing’. There is of course more to it than that simple definition. Let’s look at examples from adult age groups....
by Shantanu | Feb 3, 2021 | Experiential Education, Hiking in the Indian Western Ghats, Natural History
* ‘A Considerable Speck’ – title of poem by Robert Frost * Whenever the aeroplane I am in takes off or approaches an airport, I am drawn to the sight of clusters of buildings lying scattered below. And without fail I think of them as nothing but anthills. Valid...
by Shantanu | Jan 20, 2021 | Experiential Education
* There is magic in experiencing links between academics and reality! * In one of the posts on this blog (here – the post is on ‘respecting wildlife’) I have mentioned how generations of readers have scoured pavements of cities like Mumbai and Delhi...
by Shantanu | Dec 7, 2020 | Experiential Education
* Observe wildlife from a distance. Do not follow or approach them. (LNT Principle) * Making their way up a stream in the local hills one day, my son and his friend had suddenly come upon a python lying in a small puddle in the stream. Had he been looking somewhere...
by Shantanu | Dec 2, 2020 | Experiential Education, Natural History, Wilderness first aid
* And some wasps we did upset… – Meghan Pandit * Imagine walking into shrubbery and disturbing a wasp nest, and you coming to know about it only when the tiny insects swarm around your legs! It happened to me when I was walking in the woods surrounding our...
