ABSTRACT
Around the world, in puddles of silent reclamation, young people, communities and inspired collectives are co-enacting a radically different narrative about education and development - one which undercuts some of the fundamental and hitherto unchallengeable assumptions about what it means to learn, what is worth aspiring to, and what is possible today. This chapter discusses some new stories introducing turbulence to the linearity and one-dimensionality imposed by globalising narratives about life trajectories. It focuses on exploratory spaces around the world where new notions of learning are being co-enacted. Anant's learning journey, like those of his peers in Swaraj University and in other such radical deschooling experiments across the world, is remarkable because it breaks through the impenetrably dominant logic of development. Swaraj University is committed to exploring the vast possibilities of informal learning. It has designed its own operating system and values to create greater autonomy, integrity, creativity, interconnectedness and abundance.
