Water Classrooms
Water Classrooms
Resource by Living Waters Museum, India
This is a multidisciplinary and inclusive water education resource for middle school students, designed to integrate water pedagogy into school curricula. It consists of four modules—Water and the Self, Shared Waters, Our Water Systems, and Water and the Planet—using games, activities, and facilitator notes to explore water's cultural, social, and technical aspects.
Education for Sustainable Development is recognised as an integral element of SDG 4 and a key enabler for all other SDGs. However, there is no single framework to infuse ESD in school curricula. While water is a crosscutting issue for many disciplines, in India there is an overarching emphasis on physical, technical and scientific aspects of water. Issues and practices related to WASH for example, are rooted in cultural beliefs and local contexts which include relations of power shaped by gender, caste and class which are barely discussed in classrooms.
The project sought to develop multidisciplinary and inclusive water pedagogy for middle school children, through an intensive participatory process engaging educators, academics, NGOs and artists working on water issues in Pune.