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Embedding values in the curriculum through a
transformation of teaching methodology
Eliza Hilton - Flow India
www.flowIndia.com
Flow India
London 2006 / New Delhi 2010
Connecting the rich material culture of India with the school curriculum.
Values – what is right and what is wrong
Also - what is destructive and constructive in humanity throughout time
Love
Cooperation
Survival
Competition
The Coliseum Rome 1st Century AD
People and animals fighting to the death.
We think this is wrong!
The Romans didn’t!
It’s easy to judge. It’s easy to be simplistic.
Trial and Death of Socrates5th Century BC Athens
Socratic method
Philos + Sophos = philosophy
Charged with disrespecting the gods and corrupting the young.
Unique challenges today
Negative
Negative View
• Corruption in our society
• Lack of parental authority
• Individualistic consumer-driven society
PositivePositive View
A chance to enable young people to tackle global problems in new ways
A chance to enable young people to think around a moral problems
A chance for values to be democratized but not necessarily individualistic
Engaged Cultural Learning 1.
Culture
• Practices & beliefs in a place and time
• Stories, buildings, films, art, writing, plays, media, oratory, songs, statues, paintings, religious objects, tombs etc.
Cultural Learning
• Understanding the ‘how’ and the ‘why’ of our practices and beliefs
• Understanding the links between our cultural production and our practices and beliefs
• Social, historical, economic structures that shape us
• Influences, reasons, how things change.
Engaged Cultural Learning 2.
Engaged learning
• Self-discovery
• Creative
• Critical-thinking tasks
• Collaborative tasks
• Learner centered
• Relevant
Development of values
• Questioning
• Open-minded but critical
• Self-reflective
• Empathetic
• Collaborative
• Deeper understanding of difference
• Positive self image
• Curious
• Creative, innovating
A visit to the HauzKhas
‘What is the responsibility of a ruler or any person towards the environment?’
Classroom
lessons
Real life
experiences
Home
environment
Science,
environmental
science
Social
science:
history and
geography
Arts:
music, art,
dance,
sport
Maths
and literacy
Critical
thinking
CommunicationCreativity
Cultural
awareness
Enquiry
How is this new?
Transmission Model
• Moral Education– Do’s & don’ts
– Rights and wrongs
– Stories and examples to highlight the point
– Governed by popular view of the society
• Engaged Cultural Learning– Awareness of societal and
economic imperatives of a particular time & place
– Cause & effect
– Dynamic view of values
– Ability to assimilate diversity in value system
Experiential Model
Our Values
QuestioningOpen-minded but critical
Self-reflective Empathetic
CollaborativeDeeper understanding of difference
Positive self imageCurious
Creative, innovating
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