Holistic Learning–What and How

Abstract

Pedagogues keep on making efforts to improve the curriculum transaction and try to optimise students’ achievement. Various Educational committees, the world over, suggest that learning should be holistic. They point out that mere learning the course-contents is grossly inadequate and attempts should be made to make education wholesome and students should be prepared to attain holistic learning so that they become ideal citizens and make their lives more meaningful as individuals and as members of the society. They should be prepared for interconnectedness and wholeness. It fosters connections between subjects, between learners through various forms of community. It generates a balance between content and process, learning and assessment, and analytic and creative thinking. This article includes the different components of holistic learning, viz. home, school, environment, community and society at large. It goes on to find ways and means how the students attain the wholesome learning.