Essence of Sense: Curriculum and Syllabus of Life Skills Programme in Liberal Arts
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2022-06
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The human experience is a multi-faceted one, full of observations, possibilities and learning. Learning is how we integrate with the world around us as we attempt to understand our purpose in the universe and how it works. It is imperative that making sense through sense-making be understood as a critical part of the experiential learning process in this regard (Fig 1). In the words of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother on Integral Education, “Education to be complete must have five principal aspects corresponding to the five principal activities of the human being; the physical, the vital, the mental, the psychic and the spiritual.” The journey one undertakes in the pursuit of these areas of thought requires more than just the observation of the world and all that is in it, or merely reading several books containing the thoughts and stories of humankind across time. It requires the activities of conversation, debate and reflection in order to fully elevate the understanding that the mind and soul must gain as they try to achieve an ideal state. With this thought in mind, we attempted an experiment at School of Design and Innovation (ISDI), Atlas SkillTech University in 2018. Through discussions with faculty members, an elective course in Liberal Arts education took shape. With a focus on giving students the opportunity to explore beyond the silos of the typical liberal arts curriculum in existence, this course presented the opportunity for students to enter the realm of self-reflection through discussive and discursive, observational
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Imagination, Empathy, SOCIAL SCIENCES::Statistics, computer and systems science::Informatics, computer and systems science::Data processing, Convergence, Reflection, World View