Learning to Live Together Harmoniously: Spiritual Perspectives from Indian Classrooms

by Jwalin Patel

Overview

This book calls for an expanded vision of holistic education that emphasizes togetherness and harmony through the discovery of oneself, others, and the larger society. It brings together teachers’ voices, experiences, and practices for such an education with Southern Knowledge, philosophy and ideologies proposed by Indian philosophers and spiritual leaders like Aurobindo, the Dalai Lama, Gandhi, Krishnamurti, and Tagore. The book reconceptualizes and extends UNESCO's "Learning To Live Together" to emphasize "Learning to Live Together Harmoniously" (LTLTH) and develops a novel conceptual framework for it. The book also explores how LTLTH can be translated into practice; calling for a continuum of harmonious lived experiences created through experiential and project based pedagogy, systems and processes for autonomy and autonomous behaviour regulation, empathetic teacher student relations, schoolwide ethos of harmonious living, and teachers’ ways of living and being.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783031235399
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan
Publication date:	04/13/2023
Series:	Spirituality, Religion, and Education
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Jwalin Patel is the President and Co-Founder of the Together in Development and Education (TIDE) Foundation in India. This book is based on the research he conducted during his PhD and postdoctoral studies at the University of Cambridge in the UK, the experiences of teachers from holistic schools in India, and the grassroots interventions carried out by the TIDE Foundation.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. Calls for alternative purposes of education.- Chapter 3. Alternative visions from Indian thinkers and schools.- Chapter 4. Learning to live harmoniously: an essential aim of education in the 21st century.- Chapter 5. Conceptualising Learning To Live Together Harmoniously.- Chapter 6. Learning To Live Together Harmoniously (LTLH) as a way of living and being- Nuances of an interconnected LTLTH framework.- Chapter 7. Experiential learning pedagogies and practices.- Chapter 8. Continuum of Harmonious Lived Experiences Through Classroom Ethos, Behavioural Management Routines and Teacher Student Relations.- Chapter 9. Teachers’ ways of living and being: teachers as reflective lifelong learners of harmonious living.- Chapter 10. Provocations, reflections, and call to action.