Who We Are

The Ferdinand Centre for Education for Social Justice, aka TFC, established in 2014 and registered in 2017 under the Societies Registration Act, is a non-profit R&D initiative that strives to serve the underserved through democratic and collaborative education. TFC was granted eligibility under Section 80G of the Indian Income Tax Act for charitable institutions in 2022.

TFC believes the goal of school education must be to equip students with the core knowledge, strengths and skills that enable them to take charge of their own lives as they complete school and venture out to work-places or college, and to empower them to engage meaningfully and productively with the communities of which they are a part. Ensuring this “readiness” to participate, with self-efficacy and agency, in the world around them represents the essence of “engaged citizenship,” and constitutes the spirit of the Right to Education for every Indian student.

TFC is founded on the belief that education can and should be empowering, democratic, and inclusive, that every student is capable of achieving excellence and has the right to an education that provides the opportunities and learning support necessary to attain that excellence.

We also believe that educators need rigorous and multi-faceted continuing support to build collaborative learning networks and create classrooms where students can achieve their full potential.

Currently, we work with teachers to generate 21st C inquiry-based curriculum for their classrooms and thereby catalyze empowering professional communities of learning and practice.