The Indian Multiversities Alliance is a network of people reimagining the university and creating new models of higher education across the Indian sub-continent. These educational visionaries are working on powerful approaches to pedagogy which explore self, community living, social justice, sustainable lifestyles, nature re-connect, alternative healing, regenerative livelihoods and social entrepreneurship, etc. These educators are committed to collaborating and co-creating to amplify their impact and unleash more possibilities for the advancement of human consciousness and the well-being of life on the planet. The IMA currently has 70+ members organizations spread across the Indian sub-continent. Indian Multiversities Alliance is part of the global Ecoversities Alliance
Paradigmatic
Re-imagining entire paradigm of education, e.g. “Ecoversities will challenge the paradigm of education as a commodity, business, student-debt, and copyright” as well as societal paradigms
Integrated
Their educational approach is “committed to nurturing inner and outer shifts”: “Ecoversities are committed to shifts from within as well as in the world, creating spiritually-anchored social action and spirituality anchored in a social context. They will focus on regenerating the Self-in-society-in-nature. Ecoversities support a bold experiment in creating a new ancient story of human consciousness beyond greed, fear, hatred, over-consumption, exploitation and war. Hence, principles such as interdependent self-reliance, sustainable lifestyles, creativity, gift culture, non-violence, grassroots politics, social entrepreneurship, emergence and radical collective intelligence will guide it and manifest through.” (from ‘The Ecoversities Startup Kit’ by IMA)
Pragmatic
They support various projects to re-imagine education (https://multiversities.net/myprojects.html) and organise annual gatherings (https://ecoversities.org/indian-multiversities-alliance-annual-gathering-report/) to allow members to meet and exchange knowledge and support in person.
Key Publications
- The Ecoversities Startup Kit, https://www.multiversities.net/assets/THE%20ECOVERSITIES%20STARTUP%20KIT-min.pdf
Additional Notes
Their members are listed here: https://www.multiversities.net/member-details.php