In today’s world, activity and performance are most important, so it is necessary not to forget children’s whole academic development. This approach is important to manage life challenges.
Education is not just the examination and being bookworms but the development of emotion and ability to think and learn, self-awareness, extra curriculum, and cognitive skills.
Understanding Of Holistic Development
Holistic Development is all about the growth of children. Such as Physical, emotional, social, and cognitive. All of this area is connected if any of the area is ignored it automatically affects the other side. It highlights that a person is beyond their academic presentation and also their psychological and emotional development are very important in creating the future of children.
Cognitive Development: Academic Achievement that has a center of attention is children’s cognitive growth. Cognitive development encourages problem-solving, critical thinking, and creativity. This huge evolution helps children to understand the world.
Emotional Development: Emotional Development involves knowing about one’s emotions as well as understanding and to aware of the feelings of others. Schools play a significant role in student’s life in the development of emotional intelligence.
Creative and Critical Thinking: In this frequently growing world, creative, and critical thinking abilities are important for problem-solving. A great education helps children to stay curious, ask doubtful questions, and think outside the box. Activities that help students to build confidence in themselves like art, music, and writing let them express themselves, also develop unique ideas.
Spiritual and Ethical Awareness: holistic advancement also means paying attention to what going on inside. Spirituality refers to personal, activities like mindfulness, gratitude, and empathy help them to understand better and experience more grounded. It helps to think ethically and consider the impact of their performance, creating thoughtful and responsible global citizens.
The Necessity Of Comprehensive Development in Rural Areas
The rural section constantly faces unique challenges that nose into educational outcomes. These challenges include limited resources, inadequate infrastructure, and socioeconomic barriers that affect students.
Parents and community members are involved in the learning process of well-rounded holistic development. For this, it increases the outcomes of education. By giving proper training and ability-based knowledge of economic needs, students can be provided with practical knowledge. Aahawahan Foundation has launched over 37 projects to focus on amplifying educational provision for children in rural areas.
Fostering Children’s Actual Ability
Besides, teaching academic knowledge and education in undeveloped schools goal to find and encourage children’s special and unique talents. Skills and interests differ in every child therefore, recognizing one’s talent is important and helps them build these qualities and overall development. This encouragement leads to the children’s self-confidence and helps them to pursue their goals when community areas and academic members work together to recognize and support their talents. For this, we can generate a good generation that will create better lives and contribute positively to society.
Character Education
Character education activity helps children obtain a caliber that is mandatory for success in schools, such as perseverance, resilience, integrity, and respect. In these interactions with one another, children are advised to act morally, know their values, and set personal purposes.
Art and Creativity
It is important to support the true talent of children in arts and creativity in rural schools to identify and develop. Arts education increases not only artistic knowledge but also develops skills and abilities like critical thinking, reducing stress among children, solving problems, and emotional expression.
Development of Comprehensive Strategy to Promote Holistic Education
The idea of “Development” is all over education, studies nowadays focus on short-term programs and only consider one or two aspects of growth and development. but if we have to support kids we have to look overall development of kids. Education aims to guide kids to the values that give them purpose toward the future and prepare them to choose their path further.
To create better people who can bloom in different aspects of life, holistic education is necessary. This approach values emotional, social, and physical growth as much as academics. In rural areas where resources are minimal, holistic education can help underprivileged kids true perspective, boosting their self-confidence and find their true strength.
The combination of arts and character education allows students to know not only academic purpose but also to boost emotional awareness and creativity. At last, the tools holistic education gives to the children for a fulfilling future and to make them ready for all aspects of their lives. If we want a better generation that is equally capable and well-rounded, we have to make sure to support this approach to education.
By Mr. Braja Kishore Pradhan, Founder of Aahwahan Foundation
