The 2023 Bicentenary Medal of the RSA (Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce) was awarded to the Founder of Schumacher College, Mr. Satish Kumar; a short feature regarding that is: Satish Kumar and Schumacher College win prestigious medal (dartington.org)
For a good interview with Mr. Satish Kumar, please click the following: ‘Act out of love not anger’: green trailblazer calls for unity in movement | Education | The Guardian
The College itself was originally established as a Western equivalent of Shantiniketan, the learning environment pioneered by the Nobel Prize-winning Indian educationist and writer, Rabindranath Tagore, and of the learning environment pioneered in his ashrams by the leader of India’s freedom struggle, Mahatma Gandhi.
The College is synonymous with the effort to create a model of learning that develops alumni who have the skills and passions that will make the contemporary world a better place.
Not surprising, then, that the essential message of this book is that we need to abandon the evolutionary perspective on education which places humans at the top of the tree to exploit and despoil everything below us.
We need to replace it with an ethical and ecological education which teaches us responsibility and stewardship in relation to all of humanity and in relation to all of nature.
List of contributors:
Opeyemi Adewale, Jon Alexander,
Alan Boldon,
Fritjof Capra, Matt Carmichael, Pavel Cenkl, Lauren Elizabeth Clare, Joseph Bharat Cornell,
Guy Dauncey, Alan Dyer,
Natalia Eernstman, Charles Eisenstein,
Guillem Ferrer,
Herbert Girardet, Donald Gray,
Thich Nhat Hanh, Stephan Harding, Elizabeth Howes,
Angela Dawn Kaufman, Michael Keary,
Ina Matijevic, Dheepa R. Maturi,
Helena Norberg-Hodge,
Dana Littlepage Smith, Isabel Losada,
David Orr,
Günter Pauli, Martin Pavicic, Sacha Peers, Thakur S Powdyel,
Ben Rawlence, Ivana Razov,
Shakti Saran, Anthony Seldon, Vandana Shiva, Tom Sperlinger,
Colin Tudge,
Caroline Walker, Sarah Wilkinson.
Prabhu Guptara –
“ground-breaking book” …”At a time when we desperately need a new and compelling vision for education Regenerative Learning offers a fresh perspective” … “radical and deeply grounded solutions, spelt out in a dazzling array of essays from both internationally acclaimed experts and relative newcomers to the field” – Stephen Scoffham, Visiting Reader in Sustainability, Canterbury Christ Church University, U.K.
https://blogs.canterbury.ac.uk/sustainability/sustainability-book-reviews-5-regenerative-learning/
(though, apparently, this blog was originally featured in the monthly Us in the World Newsletter, available around Canterbury campus and online, Pippa Rann Books can find no trace of the Newsletter on that university website – or indeed anywhere else on the internet; however, we are delighted that it was re-used on the blog and is therefore available at the URL provided above).
Prabhu Guptara –
At the RSA (Royal Society of the Arts Commerce and Manufactures), a great discussion of the book, featuring Rachel Musson, Ben Lawrence, and Satish Kumar himself
https://archive.org/details/rsa-Regenerative_learning_I_Satish_Kumar_Rachel_Musson_Ben_Rawlence_I_RSA_REPLAY
Prabhu Guptara –
A full discussion of the book’s content and ideas between Mr. Shakti Saran and Mr. Satish Kumar, including:
1. The significance of Regenerative Learning
2. The different facets of Regenerative Learning
3. What needs to be done to make Regenerative Learning mainstream
https://shaks.blog/2023/01/14/making-learning-regenerative/
Prabhu Guptara –
Discussion of the book’s launch event and of the ideas in the book: https://laurenelizabethclare.medium.com/artisans-of-education-48a283f73a4b