Syllabus for understanding self

Understanding Self

Unit-1: Self as a Human Resource

1.1 Cognitive resources of the self: Self-critical awareness about one’s abilities and opportunities to develop independent thinking, critical thinking, creative thinking, decision-making, and problem-solving, and develop them as skills.
1.2 Affective resources: Feelings of love, joy, appreciation; emotions like fear, anger, jealousy, affection, happiness to be understood both as assets and threats or limiting factors.
1.3 Sensitize the ability to identify the structural and functional commonality of the human body except the organs of reproduction and allied features of the human kind.
1.4 Empathic understanding of geographical, climatic, and genetic conditions causing physical differences.

2.1 Self-critical awareness of the causes for one’s positive and negative relations with people based on caste, class, language, religion, nation, region, etc.
2.2 Self-critical understanding of the basic realities of the man-made divisions over the time-scale.
2.3 Critical understanding of Nature’s necessity of gender difference for the onset and continuity of the human race.
2.4 Critical understanding of the basic realities of cultural differences across the time-scale and across the globe.

3.1 Nature, harmony in existence and co-existence.
3.2 Dependence of Self on Nature for the very life; dependence of self on other selves for comfortable living.
3.3 Responsibility of self towards conservation, protection, and enrichment of plant and animal life.
3.4 Responsibility of self towards other human beings in the family, society, and people across the globe.

4.1 Self-critical awareness of teaching competency: adequacy of subject matter knowledge, professional skills, and effective communication to the students.
4.2 Self-critical awareness of one’s attitudes towards students, teaching, teaching material, interest in students and subject, and one’s aptitude in inculcating interest in students to realize the values identified in the lesson.
4.3 Self-critical awareness of the suitability of one’s role being performed contextually to enrich learners’ capabilities and guiding them for self-actualization while interacting.
4.4 Self-critical awareness of involvement in teamwork with colleagues, the head of the institution, parents of learners, and management for the development of the learners.

5.1 Development of self and social identities in the learners to enrich human resources and self-esteem; realistic understanding of any self as depending on the source of the whole existence for spiritual awakening free of any religious identity.
5.2 Objective view of beliefs, prejudices, and stereotypes to liberate from irrational tendencies.
5.3 Understanding human roots in animals and the possibility of heights in the divinity through philosophers like Swamy Vivekananda, Sri Aurobindo, and J. Krishnamurti to awaken oneself to Truth, beauty, and goodness both inside and outside.
5.4 Yogic practices for physical, mental, and spiritual health and to lay the seeds or foundations for Self-realization.