By Trishna Pandey | Aashwasan Practitioner
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About Humane Education
"We learn despite our education" said Mark Twain and this remains true of most educational endeavours today. Education in many cases does exactly the opposite of what it is meant to do. Competition instead of co-opetition, parochial instead of ecumenical, content instead of process of learning, rote thinking instead of creativity, a closed mind compartmentalised into rigid silos instead of open free flow mind, intolerance instead of compassion are all the manifestations of the education system today.
True Education is supposed to bring deep changes in an individual and the society at large. At an individual level, it is supposed to increase creativity, compassion amongst individuals and inculcate a sense of awe and respect towards nature and universe around us. It is supposed to open our mind, our senses and bring about a shift in thinking process that is not parochial.
Aashwasan's Humane Education movement came into existence to bring back the essence of true education. Through a series of techniques drawn from the tools and techniques invented by Ms Rashmi Aiyappa, this movement has created a joy in learning, humanised education, opened up teachers and students’ mind in unimaginable ways and made them compete with themselves rather than with others. This has resulted in dramatic reversal and reduction of many of the deleterious impact. In many cases bullying has come down dramatically; students’ performance and true learning has increased; it has changed the perspective of teachers and made them more humane. The whole process of learning and education has become more enjoyable. Stress levels in students have reduced dramatically and students are able to focus more on themselves than on others. The effort levels and motivation levels of students has dramatically increased.
Aashwasan brings a series of awareness programs on humane education to spark a revolution in the educational system. The structure and the knowledge shared in these programs are based on the principles of Aashwasan ScienceTM, which contains the knowledge of human mechanism and its experience. These awareness programs promote humane qualities such as compassion, acceptance, assertiveness and the spirit of Coopetition, bringing the experience of oneness. They highlight the importance of recognizing each child as an individual and ignite the spark of imagination, dreaming, creativity, innovativeness, togetherness and collaboration. Conducive educational environment leads to reduced bullying, abuse, crimes, stress, emotional and psychological and psychosomatic problems in children, laying the foundation for a better society tomorrow.
Take Aways of Awareness program of Humane Education
Humane Science – A Coopetition Initiative – An Impact Made
Date: 23rd Feb 2008 and 1st mar 2008
Venue: VidyaNiketan Public School, Ullal Upnagar Bangalore
Participants: Oxford Senior Secondary School, CMR National Public School, New Horizon Public School, VidyaNiketan Public School, Bishop Cottons Boys School, Innisfree House School and National Hill View Public School
Sponsors and Organizer: Science Olympiad Foundation
Creator and Executor: Aashwasan Foundation
Judges: Mr. R. Ravi (Chief Advisor and Mentor – Aashwasan Life Enhancement services Pvt. Ltd.), Prof. Balaji (Senior Director – Symphony University), Mr.Vasudevan (Director – Indian Operations, Synetz India)
As Experienced by Participants and Audience
“Humane science has been one of the most innovative methodologies I have witnessed. I have seen my daughter transform. As a corporate citizen I feel there are many learnings which can be applied to improve team work.” Said Pankaj, parents of one of the participants
“Humane science enables you to unleash your creativity and teaches you to accept and adjust and the scientific world with a unified stand.” – says Shreya Student of CMR National Public school and a participant in humane science
“Humane science is - come together, be together, share with each other and all of us win together. It was inspiring everyone by bringing out passion in them” Said Mrs Srinivas, Teacher Bishop Cottons Boys School
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