APPLICATION OF INTEGRAL EDUCATION – SCOPE, CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES

Abstract

What child seeks to learn and how institution can align with the needs of learner have become the center of discussion for education today. The limitation of mainstream of education have led educators to look at the alternative approaches. Integral Education Philosophy (IEP) is based on the educational thoughts of Sri Aurobindo and the mother. The integral schools established under the principle of free progress curriculum and experiential learning approach. The aim of the study is look at principles and best practices of Integral education that can help to address the limitations of mainstream education keeping in the spirit of National Educational Policy – 2020. We explored what are the challenges in bringing IEP pedagogical approaches to mainstream and recommendation towards abridging the practicing of IEP in mainstream of education.

The results highlighted that integral education teacher consciously create class teaching materials as per the needs of the child and understand the child view of learning. The evaluation approach is multi method and integrated to overall development of the learner. The teaching and learning process are based on students centered pedagogy methods Thought there are challenges observed from the respondents bringing the IEP to the mainstream of education in the spirit of new education policy implementation but the outcome majority of 39.5% felt positive about inculcating the certain principles to IEP to the mainstream. The challenges and opportunities indicated by the participants were examined using sentiment analysis.