Arpita Dutta was part of the fourth cohort of YouCAN’s Earth Educators Fellowship. Her passion project Anchored for Change – Ocean Literacy was a place-based module on marine life, ocean identity and conservation, rooted in Kundapura, Karnataka. This blog traces Arpita’s process in imagining how ocean literacy can be taught, and how in finding her path as an educator, her reflections of the same along the way -- “Ocean knowledge and literacy should be understood as a kind of

As a child, Priyanka did not find school to be easy. This was a bizarre world with strict norms, stricter consequences, and a grade curve that left her behind. Priyanka mused that this was what probably drew her to work with children in conflict with the law. If school itself was a judgemental and unforgiving place, what must the weight of the penal system feel like? If she felt like an outcast, like she was not up to the mark, how must these children feel? Priyanka began wor

Illustrated by Sanath K Udupa Navaneeth's path has been a fascinating evolution, a true "Journey through the wild" that has led him from...