INTRODUCTION TO INTEGRAL EDUCATION
An Inspirational Guide
These CDs are based on a series of three-day teacher-training workshops on Integral Education conducted all over India over a span of several years. It is an attempt to communicate whatever is possible on the content, mood and intensity of the major elements of these interactions.
The aim of these workshops was not so much to discuss different techniques of education, but rather to lead participants into a radically different way of experiencing education and our role in it as teachers and parents — and gradually even to awaken or grow into a new attitude to the whole of life itself, for the two are inseparably bound. And from this new state of being, we will discover that the right techniques and methodologies naturally flow from us, and all that we may have learnt over the years from specialized training sessions will naturally fall into place in a wide, embracing and spontaneous harmony.
The discussions in these six CDs lay down the foundations of this new approach, the principles around which it is organized, the different elements involved, and the resultant reshaping of the entire framework of education.
1) Content of the first CD - The Three Principles Education
1. The larger context of the world situation
2. The five parts of the being
3. The industrial age of education
4. Every child is a soul in evolution
5. The five elements of education
6. Ether, the environment
7. The first principle of education - "Nothing can be taught"
8. The insatiable curiosity
9. Spontaneous imitation
10. The second principle of education - "The mind must be consulted in its growth"
11. Three types of learners
12. Four basic temperaments of the psychology
13. The third principle of education - "From the near to the far"
14. Sequencing your presentation
15. Using Subjects as a Window
Total time 1h 13min
2) Content of the second CD - How the Brain Learns
1. How the brain learns
2. Chanting Om
3. Awakening creativity
4. The relationship with the child
5. Identification
6. The fire of knowledge
7. Water, the teacher
8. The earth, the child
9. The faculty of observation
10. Layers of the mind
11. The left and the right brain
12. Musical, logical, linguistic and spatial intelligence
13. Kinaesthetic intelligence
14. Intrapersonal and interpersonal intelligence
Total time 1h 11min
3) Content of the third CD - Know That by Which All is Known
1. The emotions
2. Refinement of the emotions
3. Modern society
4. The life energy
5. Training of the body
6. Concentration and will-power
7. Developing concentration
8. Developing will-power
9. Developing memory
10. The psychic
11. Integral education
On Teaching Mathematics
12. Relationship with numbers
13. Multiplication tables
14. Algebra
15. Physics
16. Electricity
Total time 1h 02min
4) Content of the fourth CD - Towards the New Education
1. Three kind of briges
2. Involvement of children
3. Morning assembly
4. The arrangement of the classroom
5. The curriculum
6. Examples from Indian tradition
7. Development of faculties
8. Purification of the nervous channels
9. Leading into questions
10. The inner touch
11. Duration of the class
12. The ideal ration of students
13. Resource centre
14. Field trips
15. Evaluation
16. Self-evaluation
17. Teacher's meetings
18. Meeting with parents
19. Regular workshops
Total time 1h 11min
5) Content of the fifth CD - Preparing Ourselves as Teachers
1. Knowing ourselves
2. Training the mind
3. The mind is like a monkey
4. How to still the mind
5. Will
6. Detachment
7. Breath
8. Peace
9. Brining down peace (guided meditation)
10. Ashtavadhanam
11. Swimming in an ocean of energy
12. Drawing in life energy (guided meditation)
13. Love
14. Identification
15. Love of knowledge
16. Purpose and self-confidence
17. Humility
18. Reassessing oneself
19. Bringing forward the real "I"
20. Yoga
Total time 1h 08min
6) Content of the sixth CD - Inculcating discipline
1. Awakening to the inner sensitivities
2. Four ways to handle behaviour problems
3. Key to discipline
4. Distinguishing the child from his behaviour
5. Shaping behaviour
6. Making rules
7. Culture of the school
Working with Older students
8. Who am I?
9. Trust and energy
10. Engage the mind
11. Life as an adventure
12. Stress and detachment
13. The competitive instinct
India's Mission
14. India's ideal
15. Actualizing the ideal
Total time 1h 09min
Audio CDs - a set of six, time ~7hours
Publisher: An Auroville Production, 2007,
Transcribed and organised in an Audio CD format by Fabrice Dini
Language - English
Price: Rs.600.00/-
Companion to these Audio CDs but available separately : a book here , single MP3 CD here
