Kinds of Learning

The kinds of “learning” we are trying to foster in the children under our care are…

    • Learning that involves the release of our imagination, our “self”, the development of an enquiring spirit, a caring, compassionate sensitivity and the development of the creative, expressive activity of our mind.
    • Learning to order our experience, to reflect upon it critically, to describe it coherently and to deal with it rationally and creatively.
    • Learning to be self-aware and to give expression to our own understanding of ourselves in relationship to others and our world.
    • Learning to understand, manage and express our emotions and feelings in a constructive way.
    • Learning to develop a sense of beauty and wonder about the world, hoping thereby to sensitize our mind to be ever responsive, joyful and alive.
    • Learning to think imaginatively and creatively and to develop the ability to express ourselves competently in the oral and written medium, both in English and Hindi.
    • Learning to learn i.e., acquiring lifelong tools of learning like reading, writing skills, numerical skills, gathering, analyzing and applying of information in meaningful, personally relevant ways and good reasoning and thinking skills.
    • Learning to collaborate, work in groups, reflect on the critical problems of our times and to find creative, just solutions together.
    • Learning to construct an integrated, just picture of reality, consisting of the world with ourselves and the others in it.
    • Learning to think with a lens of democratic social justice that is with a lived understanding of the core principles of democracy – equality, fraternity and liberty.