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Curriculum vitae
- 1. CURRICULUM VITAE A COURSE OF LIFE
- 2. OUR NEEDS AND WANTS • Health • Safety • Financial and other resources • Friendship • Rest & Rejuvenation • Art, Adventure, Entertainment • Spirituality What do we do to fulfill these needs and wants?
- 3. WE BUY THEM, OF COURSE! Money (loans) Health (medicine)Safety (gun) Spirituality (rituals) Friendship (social media) Art (cinema) Rest (vacation)
- 4. WHERE IS THE EDUCATION CURRICULUM?
- 5. References Philosophy, Policy, Plans Resources Texts, Audio, Video, Apps Tools Scientific, IT, Traditional Infrastructure Buildings, Open Spaces Academic Curriculum
- 6. WHAT IS LIFE? Bliss LIFE Sat Chit Ananda
- 8. WHAT IS LIVING? Awareness of Life in all its dimensions.
- 9. AWARENESS DECIDES ( THE QUALITY OF ) THE STATE OF OUR… Being Doing • Peaceful • Witness • Harmony • Humble • Wonderment • Oneness • Ananda • Physical: Walking, Eating, Talking, Working • Mental: Reading, Watching, Thinking, Dreaming
- 12. CONCENTRATION: BY CHOICE OR INERTIA? • By choice: guided by awareness of Life • Inertia: A property of matter by which it continues in its existing state of rest or uniform motion in a straight line, unless that state is changed by an external force. • Attention due to inertia is not concentration but attachment.
- 13. AWARENESS OF LIFE IS NOT ENOUGH FOR CONCENTRATION In the presence of distracting forces, we need the WILL to concentrate.
- 14. THE WILL TO CONCENTRATE CAN BE INDUCED BY: • External means (unwholesome) • External means (wholesome) • Internal means
- 15. CONCENTRATION: EXTERNAL MEANS (UNWHOLESOME) • Pleasure (body and mind) • Passive Fun • Incentives • Promises • Approval • Fear, Guilt, Pride, Shame, Envy, Ambition
- 16. CONCENTRATION: EXTERNAL MEANS (WHOLESOME) • Love/Affection • Adventures • Affinities • Values • Stories • Active Fun • Rituals • Surprises • Aesthetics • Challenge
- 17. External means of concentration are capable of only initiating concentration and not in maintaining it over an adequate period.
- 18. We need an internal aid for concentration that is capable of initiating and maintaining it so that living (and hence learning) becomes fully self-driven
- 19. CONCENTRATION: INTERNAL AID Jijnasa A burning desire for knowledge
- 20. "EDUCATION IS NOT THE FILLING OF A PAIL, BUT THE LIGHTING OF A FIRE" How to light that fire?
- 22. HOW TO IGNITE THE THIRST FOR KNOWLEDGE? • The Fuel: The learning potential that already exists in every child • The Oxidizer: Any suitable object of study • The Heat: The means that connects the learning potential with the object of study and enables combustion
- 23. HEAT: THE ACTIVATING ENERGY 1. Facilitating "Aha" moments 2. Encouraging questioning 3. Opportunities to teach 4. DIY projects
- 24. THE SKILL TO CONCENTRATE • Watching the breath • Sports, Exercise, Dance, Martial Arts - activities that require physical balance • Practicing any Art/Craft
- 25. CURRICULUM OF LIFE • Awareness of Life in its three dimensions (body, mind, soul / sat, chit, ananda) • Practices to develop Awareness of Life • Concentration guided by awareness • Concentration enabled by wholesome external means – the will • Concentration enabled by Jigyasa – the will • Practices to develop the skill to concentrate
- 26. PRACTICES FOR AWARENESS OF LIFE BODY: Sleep, Elimination, Hunger, Agility MIND: Attractions and Repulsions – Reactive and Responsive SPIRIT: Connection, Serenity, Joy
- 27. CHOOSING AND EXPLORING AN OBJECT OF CONCENTRATION • Whatever comes into your awareness (of life), choose to concentrate on one or more of them for the day. • Choose and apply one or more means of concentration to initiate and maintain concentration on the chosen object. • Explore the various aspects of the chosen object - first through experimental actions and then through theory and reflection. • Over a period, a structure of conscious living and experimental exploration will emerge – this is the Curriculum of Life.
- 28. LIVING VALUES CREATION PORTFOLIO • When our children create values for themselves and others through their daily life, those values can be showcased in a portfolio and shared with the world. • This will help anyone in the world discover our children and offer them all kinds of opportunities. • Therefore, children and youth who have their own portfolio do not needs certificates from any institutions for them to get all kinds of opportunities they need. • More on “certificates and portfolio” at: http://akarma.guru/questions/question/do-you-follow-a-curriculum/
- 29. THANK YOU! Visit aKarma.guru for homeschooling inquiry.
Editor's Notes
- The will to concentrate can be strengthened by external and internal Aids.
- These are some external Aids that help a mind concentrate and they are unwholesome because they shift the focus of our children from the true purpose of learning.
- These are another set of external Aids that are wholesome because they not only concentrate the mind but also create joy, inspiration, discipline, valuable lessons, self-reliance etc.
- Every child is born curious and curiosity could concentrate the mind for a while. This already existing internal urge, if it become Jijnasa, a strong desire for knowledge, then it could become a reliable internal aid that initiates and maintains concentration.
- We need three ingredients to create fire.
- The fuel already exists in every child. An object of study is suitable as an oxidizer if it is broad in scope and is set up and presented to draw out inquiry. The heat is the connection that we must make between the learning potential and a suitable subject. If all these three come together, then we could have create a spark.
- We can create the heat, the connection in these four ways. More can be added by others. Each one of these can act like a spark plug and creates cumbustion.
- These practices develop the skill to concentrate.