PRAXIS® LEARNING CENTRE

PRAXIS^® LEARNING CENTRE

BLUE VALLEY SCHOOL

PRAXIS^® is a registered voluntary, non-profit organization, established in1981. Praxis has been   conducting supplementary education classes for the children, after school hours, in 120 villages of Devanahalli taluk.

WHY DO WE START A SCHOOL?

v  The education policy makers have flawed assumption about education.  They perceive Education from a utilitarian perspective.  They ignore the social purpose of education for emancipation.

v  Education should not aim at just getting employment.  It should aim at building character, integrity and a capacity to be responsible citizens, developing cognitive ability, thinking capacity and problem-solving skill.

v  The present-day education system has created a social differentiation. There is a great disparity in the quality of education the rural children get and the quality of education the urban children of the elite get. Good quality education for the children of the poor is a key to overcome inequality in the society.

v  The school education has to be seen as a public good outside the logic of the market.

v  Education should enable all round development of individuals.  Emotional wellbeing of the students is paramount important.  Emotional wellbeing of the learners is linked to their successful life. Education should shift from teacher centeredness to learner centeredness; teaching for learning; text book based learning to experiential learning; unhealthy competition to happy collaboration; teacher domination to learner participation; rote learning to activity based intelligent learning.

The eight core-competencies that education should develop in students are: 1. Creativity, 2. Curiosity, 3. Critical thinking, 4. Ability for communication, 5. Collaboration, 6.  Compassion, 7.  Composure, and 8. Citizenship.

A.      Praxis Learning Centre will provide the children from remote rural areas a guarantee of excellent quality education in English medium and overcome the injustice in the education system.

B.      Our school will be run on ‘NO PROFIT NO LOSS’ basis. We will be transparent in all our operations including our finances.

C.      We will provide residential facilities for children from distance places, again at charges based on ‘NO PROFIT NO LOSS’.

D.     We will conduct summer camps to upgrade the learning standard of the children. 

E.      There will be a parents’ association. All parents of the children who study in our school will be part of this association.

F.       We will promote philosophical thinking and intelligent enquiry leading to VISION for life. 

G.     In our school, there will be a strong emphasis on subjects like history, social science, literature, and geography, to make the children acquire sense of history, looking at the society from a historical perspective, social consciousness leading to social commitment; being aware of inequality, oppression and exploitation.

H.     Having a scientific approach to the society, never accepting things as given, the students and the teachers will become agents of change.  Change is a constant reality of the society.

I.        Promoting understanding of different cultural, religious diversities. Recognizing that these diversities and differences are a wealth of the society.

J.   We learn together.  A teacher cannot teach if he/she is not learning at the same time.  A teacher becomes a learner and the learners also become teachers.”  Our school will be a community of children and teachers living, sharing and learning together. It will promote learning as a collaborative and cooperative life together rather than competitive business venture.

K.      “Our school is based on the philosophy, simply put, “A person is an individual with others in the world”.  We arrive in the world created by people before us.  We cannot live unless we recreate this world for us and for our future generation. If a person is important, the world is equally important and others are integral part of us.  We cannot become ourselves without others and we in turn make others.  We cannot grow without others.  We cannot grow as human persons at the expense of others.  A real growth of our person is achieved only through growing together.  We cannot receive without giving.  Receiving and giving are two sides of the coin called life.

L.       We place ourselves in the history of our people.  We learn from the people who have gone before us, who have contributed for the creation of this wonderful world. We resolve to contribute our best so that the world and the history moves forward and all experience a good quality of life.

M.   We are citizens of this world with “an attitude, a state of mind, an emotional conviction that the whole is greater than the part . . . and that the part should be humbly proud to sacrifice itself that the whole may live.” (Robert A. Heilein)

“THE NEW SOURCE OF POWER IS NOT MONEY IN THE HANDS OF A FEW. BUT INFORMATION IN THE HANDS OF MANY’. (John Naisbitt)

Director: Alex Tuscano, Mob: 9448386968 / 9449066968