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Trump threatens India with a 25% tariff on Indian goods and services. Is it going to be confirmed? Why do US citizens have to pay additional tariff to buy goods of their choice? Why does India sell goods and services in the USA if the US market does not want to pay?
Intern. Internship. Limited period work and learning experience. To gain relevant skills, tools, practice and experience in a particular field. Apprenticeship is a variant. As part of academic requirement or otherwise. Paid or unpaid, but temporary. Some stipend so that the intern does not have to incur any expenditure for this experience. Internship indicates or determines suitability for the work in the field after the real-life experience of internship. It could lead to future employment opportunities. It prepares the intern to the post-internship employment. Internship may be offered as a successful immersion check. It may begin with quick but intense induction.
Learning is the critical outcome in an internship. Learning is acquiring, improving, and experiencing new information-knowledge-understanding, ability, behaviour, skills, tools, values, or preferences. Intentional or unintentional. For fleeting accomplishments or lasting changes. For adapting to new situations, solving problems, and improving performance. Learning happens through associations; consequences – reward and punishment; observations, arguments, dialogues, conversations; play, games, exercises; trials and practice; without being aware; algorithms; coaching; enculturation; events and episodes; experiments for evidence, for testing hypotheses; multimedia, augmented – reading, seeing, listening, etc.; reflection, application, transfer. Formal learning may adopt, adapt many of the ways and modes of learning. It could award a certificate, diploma, degree, etc., and give recognition. Not-so-structured, non-formal and informal may reinforce formal. Formal education may integrate formal, non-formal, informal, group processes, and methods into overall learning schema. Informal learning, being self-directed, could be more effective. It combines and uses: autodidacticism – Independent education without the guidance of teachers; andragogy – Methods, principles in adult education; and pedagogy – Theory, practice of education.
NF Academy is progressing to offer NF Education. Participatory, field centric, and farmer field school – FFS-LEAP mode, apprenticeship, skill-tool practice, and intense mentoring – handholding-troubleshooting support. In situ, in fields, limited offline, online, experiential practice-learning and space critical. Training transforming, model making farmers; and villages into climate resilient NF villages.
The Academy’s Education agenda is evolving. Right now, it includes: 4-year Farmer Scientist Course – BSc NF; PG for NF Mentors; Certification for NF Model Makers via testing-verification, or one-year apprenticeship; short-term 100-200-300 day courses on NF-based H&N, Enterprises, Collectives, Value-chains, Marketing, Research, Learning Facilitation, Mentoring, Management, Leadership. They also include: foundation/fundamentals, induction, immersion, orientation; exposure-demonstrations; and learning webinars.
Can we have a free life, living, leading, and learning? Can we ‘seek’ learning to be useful, relevant in the context of our existence? Can we ‘respond’ if we can, spontaneously, naturally as possible? Can we indicate, show that we are available, open?
Yes, we can. If we coexist, flowing. (un)(re)learning education. In N? jeevanavidyayoga for 7L.