'Understanding Modern Education - An Indic perspective' is an 8-hour, introductory, self-paced, online course made of short audio-visual presentations and contemplative reading and writing exercises. It is designed to help the participants connect the dots within the landscape of their personal experience with modern education in India.

This course is brought to you by the Society for Integrated Development of Himalayas (SIDH), based in Mussoorie, a non-profit organization engaged in research and projects in Education, Rural engagement and Youth Empowerment since 1989.

Early Work by SIDH

> 35 village schools and an experimental nai-taleem based school, Bodhshala.
> An year-long program called 'Sanjeevani' to empower rural youth, who went on to create outreach schools all over Uttarakhand.
> Foundational research in the, largely ignored, areas of conflict and contradictions between present day education and traditional rural value systems.
> Support in pedagogy and learning methodologies for several non-SIDH schools.
> Workshops, seminars, residential programs at SIDH campus.
> 40 plus books in Hindi and English, published since 1989.
> A quarterly journal, Raibar

Over the years we learnt a lot about our village communities, their value systems, their way of perceiving the world and life and we felt that was an important area to investigate. The modern path of development, largely borrowed from the west, seems to be not in alignment with the Indian ethos and we feel the need to research into this important area.