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Review: Learning from Children what to Teach them

Nidhi Gulati
- 01 Jan 2008 - 
- Vol. 5, Iss: 2, pp 270-276
TLDR
In this article, a holistic approach adopted by DD to the education of adolescents for participatory development is commendable, focusing on decentralized autonomy, self-help, and community ownership which are expected to provide sustainability as compared to relatively external interventions that are necessarily short-lived.
Abstract
shared benefits and linking education with livelihood, thus contextualizing education within the political ecology of survival in a rural context. Another very significant aspect of the work is a focus on decentralized autonomy, self-help, and community ownership which are expected to provide sustainability as compared to relatively external interventions that are necessarily short-lived. The holistic approach adopted by DD to the education of adolescents for participatory development is commendable.

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