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PARI Education

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What is PARI Education?

A student in India today is likely to know about the cocoa crisis in Brazil, but have no idea about the cotton crisis raging within their own country, about a 100 kilometres away.

Read Stories by Students

At PARI we’re determined to bring you stories on the everyday lives of everyday people, from all the diverse regions of the country, in 14 different languages. This is the largest multilingual journalistic endeavour in the world, and we’re glad you’re part of it.

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The PARI Library brings reports and information on rural India to a single location for students, researchers and other readers. It includes official as well as independent reports, out-of-print books, rare documents and reviewed research articles.

““In my attempt to write sensitively about Jaya and Laxmi, I understood how critical attention to detail is while recording and writing; this is what makes each PARI story what it is.” ”

Aditi Dindorkar

student

““While working on this story with PARI, I came to realise that people’s problems are never simply personal or isolated, but are in fact deeply connected to the rest of society.””

Parveen Kumar

student

STORIES BY STUDENTS

HOW IT WORKS

PARI in the classroom

We work with schools and colleges to bring stories of rural India into the classroom and curriculum. Our stories cut across subjects and bring alive textbooks concepts. In an Economics’ class, poverty is no longer a number when told through a PARI story – it is the life of a daily wage labourer who lives meal to meal, migrates through the year, and cannot afford school fees for his/her children who have been left at home. We hope to give students the tools and information to question the world around them, and to think critically beyond their textbooks; to be curious and empathetic.

In the curriculum

Project work is an intrinsic part of all curricula. Find out how you can design projects which fit curriculum and get students to explore rural issues, creating living knowledge on their field trips. Reporting for a global audience will raise the quality of their work besides being a powerful source of learning.

As a teaching resource

Even the driest topics come alive when we can weave a story around them. Use our vast resource of stories, photos, films and research reports to put a face to whatever you are teaching – from irrigation to pollution, poverty to unsustainable livelihoods – PARI has the voices of people on the ground

Create textbooks

We believe in the power of storytelling and our website is a treasure trove of stories that you can curate into texts or supplementary readers to suit your requirements. Our easily downloadable and free-to-use material can seamlessly support your curriculum.

Sessions for teachers

If you are a principal, dean or senior educator and would like to sensitise your teachers to rural issues and how to use PARI as a resource for teaching, do get in touch with us. Our learning material is interdisciplinary and addresses a wide range of pedagogical requirements.

PARI Education has touched the length and breadth of the country

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Participating Organisations

We work with young people in both formal and informal educational organisations across the country. Listed below are educational organisations in which students are working with PARI directly or through their institution.

Sahyadri School

Sahyadri

New Millennium School

Bangalore

Nalanda Public School

Mumbai