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Holistic
Education
is a multi-levelled experiential journey of discovery, expression and
mastery where all students and teachers learn and grow together. It
is a quest for understanding and meaning. Its aim is to nurture healthy,
whole, curious persons who can learn whatever they need to know in any
new context. By introducing students to a holistic view of the planet,
life on Earth, and the emerging world community, holistic strategies
enable students to perceive and understand the various contexts that
shape and give meaning to life. Holistic
education recognises the innate potential of EVERY student for
intelligent, creative, systemic thinking. Holistic
Curriculum
is inquiry driven, interdisciplinary and integrated, and is based on
explicit assumptions of interconnectedness, wholeness and
multi-dimensional being. It
recognises that all knowledge is created within a cultural context and
that the "facts" are seldom more than shared points of view.
It encourages the transfer of learning across academic disciplines. An
holistic curriculum encourages learners to critically approach the
cultural, moral and political contexts of their lives. Holistic
Learning
is organised around relationships within and between learners and
their environment while empowering learners to live fully in the present
and to co-create preferred futures. It
is concerned with the growth of every person's intellectual, emotional,
social, physical, artistic, creative and spiritual potentials. It
actively engages students in the teaching/learning process and
encourages personal and collective discernment and responsibility. It seeks to open the mind, warm the heart and awaken the spirit.
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