4S) Internship Abstract (4-Mar- 2018) Bharghava Shyam

Title of the Study: Art {Aesthetic and Authentic} Education.
Name of the author: A.N. Bharghava Shyam (MAE15007)
Name of the Supervisor: Amman Madan

Arts {Aesthetic and Authentic} Education

I have taken education (Enlightening experiences) as an art (Creative skill to try to solve mechanical problems), through the education components of teaching and learning, in an aesthetic (teaching) and authentic (learning) manner.

Extended Abstract:

Introduction-Brief introduction to the key concepts covered in the study.

Empirically tried-(trying) to understand-(ing) Education as an art, which focus on aesthetic teaching and authentic learning in the primary school setting of a alternative School through the observations and interpretations. {Theoretically I understand ing from my classroom experiences}. Authentic learning will focus on source of subject. The source of Science is observation, language source is expression, mathematics source is logics and pattern, social sciences source is understanding individual and society.  These are focused on student’s phenomenon aspects in the curriculum. Authentic learning will happen also through aesthetic teaching. Aesthetic will concern about the beauty without judging the student, but by guiding and facilitating them. There I tried to dis-cover these phenomenal aspects of the curriculum, why and how this school is working/helping students learning the subjects. I tried to focus on source of these subjects student’s observation (Science), expression/communication (language), understanding others (social) and teacher’s logic and pattern (Math’s).  

Statement of objectives of the study.

1)      To know how aesthetic teaching helps in authentic learning of the students in an artistic manner

2)      To know expose and experience myself to/in the alternative ways of education

3)      To know how this institution is managing the social (relating with society) plane responsibilities and phenomenal (relation with oneself) plane responsibilities through the education

4)      To explore and develop my innate capabilities of self for learning the social and phenomenal things and for teaching to the children.

Brief description of the setting and methodology.

The Valley School is an alternative school, which is run by Krishnamurti Foundation India (KFI), under the philosophy of J. Krishnamurti. It concerns on education to discover a whole of living, by balancing outer world (Focus on objective things like qualification, social status, benefits, etc.) and inner world (Focus on subjective things like personal feelings, taste, emotions, etc.).

Education means enlightening experiences, components of education is teaching and learning. I have taken Education as an Art (Creative Skill), with aesthetic teaching and authentic learning. Aesthetics and Authenticity will be there in informal setting of education. In Formal setting there is lots of chance to get alienate, because they mostly focus on products/marks than work/learning, casual setting we will (may) not bother about product/marks and work/learning also, but in informal setting we will focus on both learning/marks. Learning as an inner thing and marks (Results) are the outer things. I am looking for that school for my internship, one of main objective of my internship in managing social (outer/objective) plane and phenomenological (inner/subjective) plane.

Description of the findings/outcomes and reflections from the study.

I found aesthetic teaching and authentic learning there in the valley school particularly in junior school (2^nd, 3^rd, and 4^th class). There I found an informal setting in education. There teachers are mostly focusing on instincts of the students/children intelligence, observation and consciousness without judging them, but they are correcting them, they are giving freedom with responsibilities, that means the organization/institution will consider the individual priorities.

By seeing The-Valley-School environment, I am feeling that, there the class is like nest for learning (not like cage for learning). If the education is mainly on symbolic learning then education will become dangerous, because it will become mechanical work, we don’t know the value of that, we may get temporary pleasure, but not satisfaction in life.