{"product_id":"b0h9mmq8ls","title":"The PhD in Keeping Alive: Reclaiming What We Left Behind | An Existence Proof From The Himalayas","description":"\u003cp\u003eWe have built entire societies in which the inability to sustain life is the mark of an educated person.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe PhD in Keeping Alive isn't an argument against education.\u003cbr\u003e\nIt is an invitation to reimagine what education is really for.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis booklet begins with a critique.\u003cbr\u003e\nIt ends with an existence proof from the Himalayas.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt explores what becomes possible when education is rooted in land, livelihoods and community life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAt its heart is a call to reclaim Survival Literacy — the ability to sustain and regenerate life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt is written for educators, parents, practitioners and policymakers who sense that something fundamental has gone wrong — and are looking not for another framework, but for a different question.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWe domesticated children in the name of education.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWe took them out of fields, forests, kitchens, and workshops.\u003cbr\u003e\nWe placed them in rows and caged them inside four walls.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eStillness became obedience.\u003cbr\u003e\nCuriosity became distraction.\u003cbr\u003e\nCompliance became success.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe consequences are becoming impossible to ignore:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA generation shaped for comfort and conformity,\u003cbr\u003e\nyet fundamentally unprepared for the challenges of the twenty-first century.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe PhD in Keeping Alive draws on years of immersive fieldwork across the Himalayan region to explore what we left behind in the name of development — and what it takes to reclaim it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis is not a story about education alone.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt is about regenerating communities and the earth we all depend on.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt offers no model to copy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eInstead, it is an invitation to reimagine the ways we live, learn, and raise the next generation — together.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe question is no longer: What are your credentials?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt is:  What are you capable of keeping alive?\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ANT","offers":[{"title":"Ebook","offer_id":67923801342197,"sku":"YSL50785","price":5.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/8774\/8597\/files\/81vqJQnMBuL._SY1500.jpg?v=1793672288","url":"https:\/\/www.newbooks.store\/products\/b0h9mmq8ls","provider":"NewBooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}