Meher is Director of Social Audit, Govt of Chhatisgarh. He is based out of Raipur. He has a deep interest in education. Here are people that he recommends we find out more about:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u00b7 Deepalaya is a slum school in Delhi. Meher has been involved with Ajax, an NGO which funds in the education sector. Deepalaya is one of their fundees. They have schools that run to 12th<\/sup> grade.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u00b7 Vidya Patwardhan at Aksharnandan<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u00b7 Pankaj Jain who runs Gyanshalas: slum located primary schools in Ahmedabad. One interesting thing about his schools are the intensive teacher training programs for new teachers \u2013 most of whom are from the local slum itself. One kaizen is getting kids to school. Teachers literally hand hold kids who live across the road \u2013 to help them cross the road from illiteracy to literacy. The idea I get is to arrange for human transport \u2013 by mapping students and asking them to walk together to school. A sort of human school bus. Worth trying out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u00b7 Ramesh Panse. He used to be with BJS \u2013 and is now associated with Shantilal Mutha foundation. He has been the brains behind Mulya wardhan \u2013 BJS\u2019 initiative on value education. The Wagholi Education Research center is now under the aegis of Shantilal Mutha foundation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u00b7 Payam Shoghi. Is Principal at Riverdale School, Mulshi. He used to be Meher\u2019s colleague at BJS.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u00b7 Saurabh Phadke is a maverick architect \u2013 who works with all materials, except concrete. He has a website: soar.in<\/p>\n\n\n\n Meher talked of an interesting teaching philosophy: REFLECT. Some R and D required on that. Basically influenced by Paul Frere\u2019s Pedagogy of the Oppressed. Instead of teaching alphabets, the class discusses objects \u2013 and the sounds that make up the name of the object.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"