C3STREAMLand
In line with the Charter of Auroville, we work towards unending education, constant progress, and research from within and outside. In essence, we are a spiritual organization focused on individual and collective growth. We work on these through our work in tech and children as well as through meditation (Vipassana) as well as RTL (Radical Transformational Leadership). We find these allow us to make our contribution toward manifesting the Dream.
The organization's values are responsibility, equality, and courage to create. We use the lens of these values to see alignment in what we do, the culture we create or change, and who we are as evolving beings.
Aura Auro was started as a research project of SAIIER to look at training young rural youth to learn, grow, work, and teach, supporting themselves as well as those from their communities. It was also based on the hope that putting young technologists in classrooms would help change instruction fundamentally. The lack of change led to the reflection that a classroom setting where children are waiting for instruction from the teacher and the socializing of schooling of how teachers learned are limitations. This led to the creation of STEM land and as it grew, into C3STREAM Land Designs.
Our educational philosophy is both from progressive thinkers following the constructivist thought and Sri Aurobindo and the Mother. Constructivist Education Theory (Bruner, 1960) indicates that knowledge is not delivered to the learner (whether child or adult) but recreated by the learner on his or her own. Children actively construct their knowledge by connecting new knowledge to what they already know. Constructivist education encourages discovery learning and learning by doing. It encourages activities that challenge a child’s worldview since the conceptual change and deeper conceptual learning come from experiential and interactive activities.
The Constructionism (Papert & Hare, 1991) that adds to the constructivist theory the belief that children construct their own knowledge best by creating something outside their minds that is often sharable.
We find these progressive thoughts in line with a broader philosophy of Sri Aurobindo (Sri Aurobindo, 1910) who indicates that nothing can be taught, but the teacher can support and encourage a child in the process of learning, thus guiding them towards perfection. That a mind should be consulted in its own growth and that learning happens from near to far.
We are not here to do (only a little better) what the others do. We are here to do what others cannot do because they do not have the idea that it can be done. We are here to open the way for the Future to children who belong to the Future. Anything else is not worth the trouble.
- Software and VLSI design.
- STREAM centers with over 300 schoolchildren and youth.
- Becoming and Being a Shifu (Master) is a one-year intensive residential programme allowing mastering skills (programming and electronics), competencies, and inner capacities.
- B.Voc (Bachelor of Vocation) a 3-year undergraduate bachelor's degree in Computer Science and Machine Learning with AIAT.
- Educational Research Publishing in international conferences.
- Vipassana - 1 day refresher courses on Sundays.
- RTL (Radical Transformation Leadership) programmes including teacher training in collaboration with Dr Monica Sharma in English and Tamil.
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