Pedagogy – Project Rangeet

“Policy and curriculum needs to be agile, razor sharp and the designers need to use their imagination and intention to already be working in the schools of 2040 now?’

Sean Bellamy, Sand’s School, UK

Rangeet can be taught flexibly by educators/facilitators:

Full lessons can be taught from any of our nine modules from our Self, Society and/or Ecology Umbrellas,
Individual activities can be chosen to help teach mainstream subjects in a joyful, play-based manner (eg. Science/ Geography/ English/ Maths/ P.E.), or
Pandemic Recovery Activities conducted to help build resilience through joyful play, art, games, stories and song.

A Rangeet class is active, with room for discovery and experiential learning through inquiry and reflection; engaging; meaningful, connecting new content and prior knowledge; socially interactive with peer collaboration and adult support; iterative with chances to form, test and revise hypotheses; and joyful.

These principles naturally emerge through guided play, in which an adult facilitates child-led playful activities to meet learning goals.

If the child of 2050 has employment opportunities that we haven’t yet imagined or is competing against robots that do math faster than they do, or can visualize and solve science problems easier than they do, then how do we equip children for this future?

Children require a combination of learning, literacy and life skills. Each skill is unique but essential in the internet age. Schools should encourage this “breadth of skills approach” adapting how they teach to how children learn. Child centered, pedagogical methods like playful learning and multiple intelligences that ensure that “no child is left behind” should be employed (The Brookings Institution, Policy 2020; Howard Gardner’s Multiple Intelligences, 2019 updated).

Schools should be vehicles through which children can learn necessary 21st century skills (including the 6Cs) to function successfully in the present and future. Skills which will always be relevant, including:

Communication through listening, writing, reading and back and forth discussion.
Collaboration and social engagement.
Content. Helping navigate a vast sea of information.
Critical Thinking to analyse and find solutions.
Creative Innovation. Students must be challenged to think outside the box.
Confidence. A school of the future is a place where learning improves due to the confidence and compassion exhibited by its students.
Flexibility. Children must learn how to adapt to changing circumstances.
Resilience. The ability to cope makes for stronger, happier, well-adjusted individuals.
Leadership. Motivating others to accomplish a goal.
Initiative. Planning, starting projects and strategizing on one’s own.

(The Brookings Institution, Policy 2020; Applied Education Systems, 2020)

The report can be found here: Brookings Policy 2020. Please note Project Rangeet has been mentioned in this report as an example of a project promoting joyful learning. In addition the UN has endorsed Project Rangeet as a global best practice in this area of learning: The UN Features Project Rangeet.