... for they have their own thoughts - Multiworld India

2005 Goa, India73the bazaar: ways of taleemThe bazaar saw the participants setting up‘shop’ to display and introduce their work in anambience of informality and leisure.The idea of a ‘bazaar’ to enable participants toexplain their experiences to others is aShikshantar innovation. Participants are providedspaces on the campus and people movearound from stall to stall, talking to the personsmanning the stalls, looking at their ‘wares’including books, CDs, crafts, etc.At Thane, organically grown berries and fruit,exchanges of natural medicinal and beautytips, the design of methodologies for teachingof languages for rural children, innovations inthe teaching of number, possibilities for physicallychallenged learning, no schooling,deschooling proposals, child directed curriculumdesign, apprenticeships, post school programmes,puppetry and theatre in education,workshops on bridging gaps, books and more,lay spread out in the bazaar for the sampling.It was a free flowing informal exchange ofideas, know how, tips and wisdom.In the pages that follow you can also accessthe people who ran the bazaar and what theyhad to offer.