“ChaloThinKare (Let's Think together!) Foundation” offers advice, training and support to schools, industries, NGOs and individuals - promoting Thinking Through Philosophy as a robust and effective learning method. This approach enables students / individuals to develop thinking, innovation, problem solving skills and self-awareness as well as build social and emotional intelligence.
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We spend so much effort in making children remember the content of the subjects but don’t actually offer them the opportunity to understand how to think, how to learn. If we don’t change that, it will have tragic consequences. So, we must give children time to think, we must help them learn to think, and we must challenge them to think and express themselves ! Because only challenges make the brain develop. Practical philosophy plays a big part in this.
Know More →After going through TTP modules, children / students / individuals become self-aware about their thoughts, actions, learn to manage their emotions and start questioning their beliefs in every respect. This journey makes them capable of taking decisions in a thoughtful way. They, now, will not follow others blindly but thoughtfully.
Know More →Please submit the below google form for registering name for your child in our online sessions. We will get back to you to confirm batch timing. Session Invites will be given through WhatsApp.
Please submit the below google form for registering name for yourself in our online sessions. We will have weekly one hour sessions to discuss on different interesting topics useful for everyone. Session Invites will be given through WhatsApp.
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Prof. Dr. Jaap Schouten was a university professor in education at the Amsterdam University and visiting professor at the Rajasthan University.
Jaap was Yojana’ s guide to develop awareness for and an approach to develop the quality of Indian education. Twice he travelled to Indie to train partners and teachers. Jaap is Yojana’ s top advisor for education with whom Yojana has frequent contact. He developed the tool for educators: “Words of Value.”
Jaap can be characterized by his statements.
" Experience is the only way of learning "
" A pupil does not care what you know until he/she knows that you care "
" We cannot teach students; we only can support her/his learning "
" In essence teaching is developing the ability to ask questions "
" If there are no questions, let’s go home ".
Cees is a non-salaried Secretary and Founder Member of Yojana Project Netherlands. Yojana was associated with manay Indian NGOs for the last 40 years and supported projects in agriculture, village development, child labor, women empowerment and streen children. More and more Yojana became aware that lack of indepependent thinking, curiosity and creativity are the main hindrances for economic and social development. This conviction was the base to start two curious/ discovery centers for our youth and to introduce P4C and IRA. And now Yojana parters in developing ChaloThinKare movement.
Paul was Headteacher/Principal of primary school in Scotland for many years. Later he was a Development Officer in Thinking Development before becoming an education consultant. Paul directed the 'Thinking Through Philosophy' project in central Scotland that received international recognition. He was a committee member then Chair of SAPERE.
Over the past fifteen years Paul has published several books, given workshops, keynote addresses and presentations in many parts of the UK. He has spoken at several International Conferences on Thinking. Paul has worked with schools, education authorities, government agencies and educational charities in several countries around the world. His books have been translated into Korean, Dutch, Hungarian and Marathi.
Doris was for many years a Senior Teacher in a primary school. She became involved in the 'Thinking Through Philosophy' programme in Central Scotland and was seconded to support teachers in developing philosophical enquiry in both primary and secondary schools. Subsequently she has worked in international projects supporting teachers and developing support materials suited to the country and culture. Doris was co-author of 'Thinking Through Personal and Social Development' for secondary school pupils.
Together, Paul and Doris have worked to bring philosophical enquiry to teachers in Grenada, India and Hungary through different charity projects.
Sabine is a Dutch child psychologist and family therapist. She helps children to develop a more secure attachment and helps families to solve their problems. She has developed IRA (Interactive Reading Aloud) program for ChaloThinKare and trained a team in Pune to take it forward. SEDT (Pharbani district) and CWIN in Nepal also experienced positive effects in children using IRA.
Engineer by profession, having experience in design, production, administration and HR in small- medium industry for 20 years. Devoted 9 years for social work in rural development and worked for developing digital school, Science centers, Agriculture school, and community radio and worked to develop quality education in 25 villages in Yerala projects society . Associated with Paul and Doris Cleghorn and learned Thinking through philosophy concept and practiced the same for last 10 years. Padmanabh and Cees Tompot ( Yojana Project help Netherlands) are working together for last 15 years to develop education in India. Now working as fulltime director and trainer to develop thinking process, through trained Facilitators in India and having dream in mind to bring real equality and true freedom through independent thinking skills development through Chalo think Kare Foundation.
Software Engineer by profession having 16 years of experience working with MNCs in India, UK and USA. He left his job in USA and came to India to research and identify core issues of Indian farmers and how technology can be used to address the same. Along with several other reasons he found that lack of education and thinking are the main issues. He came in contact with Padmanabh Kelkar who was experimenting P4C with Children for last 9 years to develop their Thinking ability. He attended Doris and Paul’s Thinking Through Philosophy workshop in Dec. 2017 and realised that this is an apt way of thinking ability development. Hence decided to join ChaloThinKare movement.
Masters in Computer Science. More than 35 years in IT Industry. Running a firm Chaitanya Software Technologies since 1999. Developed more than 800 Multimedia Title related to Education, Health, Literature, Culture and Meditation. Developed different Software's in all Indian Languages. Developed different Web sites in all Indian Languages. Given consulting or worked with many Indian and Overseas companies. To name few Apple Computer USA, Gamma Productions USA, Microsoft India, Dr. Kareem Husain Jordan, NIIT India, Top Cassests India, INTEL India.
Post Graduate in Computers. More than 28 years in IT Industry. Running a firm Chaitanya Software Technologies since 1999.Developed more than 800 Multimedia Titles related to Education, Health, Literature, Culture and Meditation. Developed different Software in all Indian Languages. Developed different Web sites in all Indian Languages. Given consulting or worked with many Indian and Overseas companies. To name few - Merrit Industries USA, Papilon Nigeria, ETH India, NIIT India, Top Cassests India, Tilak Maharashtra Vidyapeeth India, Symbiosis India, Multiversity India.
Sunil is an artist by temperament and training both. He has created an imaginary character, Greeny the Great. Greeny has come to life to intervene and create awareness on environmental issues, so is Sunil. He has produced many short films for environment awareness, which have received acclaim on international level. He is a social entrepreneur, working in the field of waste management with a team of around 100 employees. Sunil is passionate about breaking patterned thinking, and has run informal sessions around the idea for almost a decade, with a group constituted for the same purpose.
MBA from IIM Calcutta. Founder of Bulls Eye, MBA entrance teaching classes in 12 cities across the India including Pune. In 2011, he helped set up Peepal Tree School in Jammu, targeting the lower middle class. In 2016 Peepal Tree Pune was started. His school students spend all their time at school in ‘Learning by Doing’. An avid cyclist. He cycles more than 100 km a week. He has Cycled in almost all the states of India.
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