Essays about: "Auroville"

Found 4 essays containing the word Auroville.

1. 1. EDUCATION SERVING THE EVOLUTION OF CONSCIOUSNESS?! An interview study of the educational foundations, challenges and opportunities in Auroville, India

   University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för didaktik och pedagogisk profession

   Author : Maya Shakti Berggreen-Clausen; [2022-11-10]
   Keywords : Transformative Education; Integral Education; Auroville; Consciousness; Education for Sustainable Development; ESD;

   Abstract : Auroville, in India was created to become a living laboratory for a new way of living and being on Earth. In this context, education in Auroville has a specific purpose. READ MORE

3. 2. Learning from the intangible : How can learning based on the three pedagogical principles of Integral Education be assessed?

   University essay from Umeå universitet/Pedagogiska institutionen

   Author : Maya Berggreen-Clausen; [2020]
   Keywords : Auroville education; learning process; three principles; assessmet; educational leadership;

   Abstract : Today, schools wanting to work with Integral Education are caught between security that the traditional system of social reproduction offers parents and children, and the universal needs of a new global education for human change that is trying to emerge. This pull between the expectations of the past and the aspirations of the future, gives little scope for deepening in the present. READ MORE

4. 3. “It's not art; it's not therapy; it's something else” : an investigation into how aesthetic practice can be used in pedagogic situations for pupils to examine and reflect on themselves

   University essay from Institutionen för Bildpedagogik (BI)

   Author : Karin Johansson; [2012]
   Keywords : Integral education; Aesthetic practice; Phenomenology of the body; Self-reflection; Painting; Awareness.;

   Abstract : In this investigation, I discuss how students can examine and reflect on themselves through aesthetic practice in various pedagogic situations. The field study took place over two months in the international settlement of Auroville in the south of India, where I visited schools and observed various pedagogical methods. READ MORE

5. 4. A Multinational Township as a Revitalization Movement: A Case Study on Auroville in South India

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Socialantropologi

   Author : Magnus Thor; [2010]
   Keywords : cognitive anthropology; hegemonic decline; Sri Aurobindo; Revitalization movements; Auroville; acculturation; New Age; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : Auroville is a spiritual intentional community in South India. It consists mainly of Westerners and Indians and they share a common belief in the philosophy of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, a philosophy that has clear references to the New Age Movement in the West. READ MORE