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Subrat SaurabhAuthor of Kuch Woh Pal
The coast can be a much more lively and exciting learning space than any classroom. The winds, currents, creatures and people have so much to teach us, and this book shows you how. "Seashells" has been designed keeping in mind children from 3 - 12 years of age, but can be a fun and enriching portal to learning in coastal landscapes, for anybody. We hope this book builds your relationship with this unique habitat, and helps the learner; educator and parent grow into conservationists.
Yuvan Aves, Aswathi Asokan and Nikkitha Terasa
Yuvan Aves - Yuvan is an award-winning writer, naturalist, educator and activist based in Chennai. His interests include reimagining an Earth-centric and child-centric education, the reciprocity between languages and ecologies, and ground-up processes of change and politics. He writes on topics at the intersection of ecology, education, and human/more-than-human consciousness. He is the author of four books, recipient of the M.Krishnan Memorial Nature Writing Award, the Sanctuary Asia Green Teacher Award and Young People for Politics Champion Award. He loves working with children and consults for a number of alternative educational institutions across India.
Aswathi Asokan - Aswathi is a postgraduate student pursuing Wildlife Conservation Action, who has an unending fascination for all things wild. She has been involved in various nature projects with different organizations and has been closely working with the coast for the last couple of years. She is passionate about learning and working with local communities and hopes to continue working towards making nature-based learning a norm everywhere, for everyone.
Nikkitha - Nikkitha is a postgraduate student of Zoology, with a profound interest in working with and educating young children and youth in and around Chennai. She has been conducting Nature walks and anchoring nature and art-based learning sessions for children and youth from various communities and schools, and the public. She is also actively involved in the creation of nature-education material and curricula.
