Protocolbot
5c4c6f4874
Cultural context remains in descriptions. Titles now uniformly use the practice name without prefixing the culture, country, religion, or people. e.g. 'Quaker Meeting for Worship' -> 'Meeting for Worship', 'Moroccan Jmaa Village Assembly' -> 'Jmaa Village Assembly', 'Aboriginal Yarning Circle' -> 'Yarning Circle'. 43 titles updated across the seed library.
38 lines
1.7 KiB
YAML
38 lines
1.7 KiB
YAML
id: barefoot-college-night-school
|
|
title: Night School Assembly
|
|
description: >-
|
|
A practice from Barefoot College (Tilonia, Rajasthan, India) where night
|
|
schools for rural children are governed by a children's parliament that
|
|
oversees the schools. Originating in the work of Bunker Roy, the night
|
|
schools serve children who work during the day.
|
|
source: Barefoot College / Social Work and Research Centre (SWRC), Tilonia
|
|
source_url: https://www.barefootcollege.org/
|
|
tags: [india, barefoot-college, education, children, governance]
|
|
forked_from: null
|
|
image: null
|
|
steps:
|
|
- headline: Elect the children's parliament
|
|
description: >-
|
|
Children from the night schools elect a parliament, including a
|
|
prime minister and ministers, through a formal process. The
|
|
parliament governs the night schools.
|
|
- headline: Parliament meets regularly
|
|
description: >-
|
|
The children's parliament meets, hearing reports from each night
|
|
school — attendance, teacher performance, facilities, problems.
|
|
- headline: Address issues raised
|
|
description: >-
|
|
The parliament addresses issues — a teacher missing, a solar lamp
|
|
broken — and assigns ministers to follow up, with real authority to
|
|
act.
|
|
- headline: Report to the community
|
|
description: >-
|
|
The parliament reports to the broader community and to Barefoot
|
|
College staff, who support but do not override the children's
|
|
decisions.
|
|
outcome: >-
|
|
Rural night schools are governed by the children who attend them,
|
|
building agency and accountability from the youngest participants.
|
|
practice: >-
|
|
The children's authority is real. If adults override the parliament, the
|
|
form collapses. Support, do not decide for them. |