Holistic Education, some key words and adjectives for it:
Balanced, whole person, infused, along the way teaching (incidental), harmonized.
5 Aspects: Moral, Intellectual, Physical, Social, Aesthetic
Grouping them into 3 groups:
1. Moral/Social
2. Intellectual (or cognitive)
3. Physical/ Aesthetic (or generally 'talents')
Against the current situation of heavily leaning on Intellectual domain, for a balanced/ harmonized holistic education to happen in school, we need to determine the amount of time/ effort of school management, teachers and pupils. What is a good proportion? Will it be realistic? Can a school do it alone within its own system? Likely it would take the MOE changing it's policy, but will it be able to do it?
It is good to view holistic education in the 3 parts you have proposed (although talents could also be in cognitive).
ReplyDeleteAnd if we are to allow the different talents in each pupil to be developed, then the time spent would also be different for each pupil.
There might not be a "right" amount of time that a school curriculum has to spend on each group, but instead the school curriculum should be clear in it's objectives: to include the holistic objectives as part of learning outcomes. With clear objectives (question 1), then the other 2 questions of "what are the indicators" (assessment) and "how do we get there" (learning and teaching strategies and activities) would be answered accordingly.
And we cannot wait for MOE to lead, we must continue to work out our holistic curriculum.