INTEGRAL EDUCATION
“Integral education is life-long education and it begins even before the birth of body and continues throughout the life. And while in the beginning, a great stress falls on the development of the body, life and mind, much can be done both by parents and teachers to commence psychic education at the early stages of development. In fact, the psychic being is very responsive in childhood, and if the right atmosphere is provided to it, and if at the later stage, great care is taken to provide physical, vital and mental education on proper lines, psychic being can be helped to come more and more to the forefront, and discovery of the psychic being can be facilitated. This discovery is considered in Integral Education as of supreme importance, because through it one becomes conscious of one’s destiny and master of one’s life” – The Mother.
Sixteen Activities based Integral Education books published by Mirambika School For New Age
| THE SEVEN JEWELS IN THE CROWN OF INTEGRAL EDUCATION | |
|---|---|
| 1 | All knowledge is within and has to be evoked by education rather than instilled from outside. |
| 2 | Change focus from furnishing of knowledge to the building up of faculties of knowledge. |
| 3 | Development of the intellect divorced from the perfection of the moral and emotional nature is injurious to human progress. |
| 4 | Education has to be National but not parochial and sectarian. |
| 5 | Everyone has his own svabhava and svadharma and has something divine in him. Discover it, develop it and use it. |
| 6 | Education should help transformation of human nature into divine nature, which is the ultimate aim of our existence. |
| 7 | Work from the near to the far, from that which is to that which shall be. |
TEACHERS TRAINING
Teachers are one of the primary stakeholders in the education process and are the main link between students and curriculum. In fact, teachers are also role models to many. Role of teachers has a remarkable impact on the quality of education imparted to students. Keeping the traditional rote learning away, teachers are trained regularly to equip them with skill development and assessment, pedagogy, class room management, curriculum implementation, novel and innovative methods of teaching. Activity based learning infused with the principles of integral education is adopted at Mirambika. In house training and workshops conducted by experts foster and orient teachers to impart the necessary skills to the students integrated with the curriculum.
Resource persons and facilitators well versed in integral education from Pondicherry are invited to conduct in-service training. Teachers in small batches also take part in camps organised by Sri Aurobindo Society, Pondicherry.
Mirambika School has provided venue a many times for CBSE organized workshops conducted by subject experts on curriculum implementation, assessment planning, tools and indicators, design and format of question paper, differentiated instructions etc. Mirambika School faculty has always been a part of such workshops.