Our Work with Students

TFC works directly with Secondary school and entry-level undergraduate students to build core 21st Century capacities so as to make them ready for their life beyond school, in college, in their careers, and as engaged citizens of a modern democracy. We design and execute courses that focus on setting students on a path to becoming self-directed learners, using digital and media literacy as both hooks and enablers, and using social justice content to promote engaged citizenship.

We believe

A good education helps students:

  • build foundational knowledge

  • develop deep understandings about key concepts

  • learn how to analyse the complex realities of a rapidly changing world.

Students evolve into independent learners. They

  • ask critical questions,

  • source and explore new knowledge,

  • construct and articulate their own understandings of problems and issues, and

  • identify new solutions. 

Students take charge of their learning and their lives by

  • defining a purpose,

  • setting long-term goals, and

  • charting a path for self-development.

Students become change-agents as they

  • participate in making changes in their own world,

  • participate in initiating changes in the communities of which they are a part. 

These steps develop Student Agency and this education equips students to interact confidently and positively in their lives after school, in higher education, in their careers, and in civic life.

We use inquiry-based pedagogies and “gold-standard” project-based learning to research, design and execute solutions to community based problems, in order to help them learn how change can be initiated.

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Readiness for Engaged Citizenship

  • Self Development Course at Ambedkar University, Delhi

    TFC designed and delivered a self development course for MA Early Childhood Care and Education students at Ambedkar University, Delhi for 3 consecutive years. The course aimed to help students take charge of their own development by building an understanding of skills, competencies and character strengths that enable meaningful engagement in the modern world.

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  • Readiness for Life after School: Capstone Course for Secondary School Students

    In partnership with Salvation Tree School, Noida, we developed and piloted a course for Secondary school students from underserved backgrounds to develop and consolidate the key attitudes, strengths, and skills that will enable them to engage thoughtfully and creatively with new ideas and different ways of thinking. The course was also designed to help them take charge of their own learning, and to transition with confidence to and through college or other pathways, ready to participate as equals in the complex 21st Century world.

  • Social Connections and Engaged Citizenship

    Social Connections and Engaged Citizenship Course at Ambedkar University, Delhi

    TFC designed and facilitated the Social Connections and Engaged Citizenship (SCEC) course at Ambedkar University for three academic years. This course is a part of the General Education Component (GEC) of the undergraduate (B.Voc) course in the newly established School for Vocational Studies. The course covers a range of topics which are relevant to a student’s daily life and tries to link them to real world issues. These problems focus on the social evils prevalent and use the students’ prior knowledge to introduce concepts of citizenship education.

  • Field Attachment Programs for MA Education Students from AUD

    TFC conducted multiple field-based programs of collaborative learning transcending traditional social divides to develop an understanding of critical and engaged citizenship, conducted for some students of the M.A. Education Program, Ambedkar University Delhi, Aman Biradari's Unnati home for older boys and Kilkari Shelter home for girls.

  • Interrogating "Gender": Short Course for Rainbow Foundation Students

    A course conducted for 15-18 year old girls of Kilkari Rainbow Home of the Rainbow Foundation of India and Delhi Government's Dil Se Campaign for the residential care and education of street-children. The course exposed students to empowering insights from feminist scholarship in a 21st C learning environment, allowing them to critically analyze gender roles and gendered relations of power and inequality in society. The course focused on developing digital literacy, communication and critical thinking skills in the students. The short course generated tremendous enthusiasm for experiential and self-directed learning and is being extended into a longer program to promote readiness for college and civic life.