Pedagogy

Sathya Sai Education in Human Values utilises a pedagogy of Integral Education that elicits human values through all aspects of education, including the process of learning and the process of teaching, while integrating them into the curriculum, and the total educational environment. Most importantly, it does this through Love, which underpins all the other values.

THE MAIN FEATURES OF THIS PEDAGOGY ARE:

The key principles put forward by the Australian Government’s  Values education
research project
 also support this pedagogy:

  • 1. Establish and consistently use a common and shared values language across the school.
  • 2. Use pedagogies that are values-focused and student-centred within all curriculum.
  • 3. Develop values education as an integrated curriculum concept, rather than as
    a program, an event or an addition to the curriculum.
  • 4. Explicitly teach values so that students know what the values mean and how
    the values are lived.
  • 5. Implicitly model values and explicitly foster the modelling of values.
  • 6. Develop relevant and engaging values approaches connected to local and global contexts and which offer real opportunity for student agency.
  • 7. Use values education to consciously foster intercultural understanding, social cohesion and social inclusion.
  • 8. Provide teachers with informed, sustained and targeted professional learning and foster their professional collaborations.
  • 9. Encourage teachers to take risks in their approaches to values education.
  • 10. Gather and monitor data for continuous improvement in values education.