What is Holistic Education?

Holistic Education is a multi-leveled experiential journey of discovery, expression and mastery where children and teachers learn and grow together.

It concerned with the growth of your children's intellectual, emotional, social, physical, artistic, creative and spiritual potentials.

The old education system was too content-centered, with overly emphasis on rote- learning, overly focused on examination and academic excellence.

The Purpose Of Holistic Education

* Prepares your children to meet the challenges of living as well as academics.  And nurtures healthy, wholesome, curious children.

* Maximizes the innate potentials of children. Develops their skills, values, and a passion for learning

* Promotes an overall development, through the mastery of knowledge, acquisition of skills and character building.

* Helps your children to discover their own talents, and to realize their full potentials.

* Ensures equality of learning for all children. Respects diversity of cultural and individual differences.

* Foster children positive feelings about themselves, their relationship with friends, families and the communities.

Holistic Education Theories

Much research has been done and many positive results obtained from various theories concerning holistic education had been propounded by philosophers and educationists like Montessori, Dr. Howard Gardner etc.

The Most Important Theories- Children ...

* Learn about themselves, their worth, and their abilities.

* Develop healthy relationships with their friends and their families

* Positive social behaviors, intellectual and emotional development

* Resilience, learn to face difficulties in life and overcome them.

* Ability to view natural beauty, experience transcendence, and truth

* Values spiritual knowledge compassion, joy and hope.

Holistic Approach To Education ...

* Our education system is flexible and diverse. We adopt a broad-based education to ensure the children holistic development.  Helps them develop their own talents, and their abilities.

* Allows children with choices to meet their different interests. And to discover their own talents, and to develop a passion for lifelong learning.

* Provides high quality teaching, appropriates to your children developmental level, abilities, and learning style.

* Encourages them to follow their passions, and promote a diversity of talents in academic fields, and in sports or in arts.

* Teachers kindle the love of learning by using real-life experiences and other lively sources of knowledge.

* More flexible in teaching, encourage creative and critical thinkers. Children ask questions, look for answers, and learn to solve problems.

* Creates opportunities for children to participate in group projects such as; field trips, holiday camps, concerts, sports, experiment science activities, art and craft exhibitions.

* Provides exciting hands-on activities with real objects to supports their growing capacities as learners.

* Ensures the tasks are challenging and offer children a realistic chance of success, taking into account their abilities and previous learning.

* Nurturing  sound moral values, to strengthen children's characters and resilience to deal with life’s challenges.

Holistic Environment For Learning Success

* Holistic environment supports independent and active learners. Teachers are caring and attend to children's health and safety needs

* Effective classroom organisation, interactive and whole school displays of children's works.

* A protective space for learning, where your  children are physically safe, emotionally secure, free from violence and abuse.

* High quality teaching, appropriates to your children developmental level, abilities, and learning style. Responsive to their interests and needs.

* A wide variety of structured activities that are fun and interactive. Children develop leadership skills, social skills, self-esteem, and interests in learning.

* Learning process, through experience, rather than by rote. Encourage children to ask questions, figure out the answers themselves. Rather than being told the answers by teachers.

* Environmental studies- children go for nature walk, encourage exploration and thinking.   Incorporate science activities, to enable children to learn through their senses.

* An eco-friendly environment, for children to play, explore, create and learn new skills. Whenever weather permits, children relax and listen to stories or read books under a shady tree in the garden.  

* Healthy outdoor activities - organized game, free play, gardening, water-play. Nature studies- plant seeds and watch them grow in the garden.

* Outdoor play periods are also generally incorporated into the school day, with the intention of providing children with experiences of nature, weather and the seasons of the year. 

* Learning centers- a favourable environment for children to read, play board games, computer, craft activities- cut pictures from newspaper or magazine to make scrap-books etc.

Guide to Holistic Childhood Education- Holistic Living Wellness for Your Families