EDUC 100W Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Barefoot College, Tilonia
25 Jan 2020
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Learning from a barefoot movement - bunker roy. Roy received expensive, great education in india and became a national squash player. Decided to live in a village for a year and saw starvation, desperation, poverty. Started the barefoot college in a village (tilonia) - is a college just for the poor. What the poor thought was important would be reflected in the college . Elders told him, don"t bring anyone with a qualification and degree into the college . Professionalism: someone who has a combination of competence, confidence and belief. College follows lifestyle of ghandi - eat, sleep, and work on the floor. No one can get more than a month. A place where people come to try crazy ideas. Students don"t receive certificates; you are certified by the community you serve . The community that makes up the barefoot college: Built in 1986 by 12 architects; housed 150 people; this building received an architecture award in 2002.
