Our Curriculum

Based on the collaborative research, experience and beliefs of our community members, our curriculum, is an integrated framework- carefully chosen and designed to help translate our philosophy into learning. It encourages students to learn not so much by receiving from educators but rather in the spirit of a true community - through debate and dialogue, with and from each other, cooperatively and collaboratively .

It combines the approaches of Interdisciplinary study, Learning-by-Doing methods and the Theory of Multiple Intelligences .

Interdisciplinary study supports lateral thinking, original insights and allows learning from life experience as it is. Practiced through project-based methods and thematic study, it encourages our children to learn holistically, and by drawing on each other's strengths.

For example if the theme chosen is WATER, students are given the opportunity to study water in various contexts -scientific (composition of water), historical (the great droughts), geographical (lakes, seas, oceans of the world) etc. They are then encouraged to collate each other's insights so as to develop a penetrative and integrated understanding of the topic at hand.

Learning-by-doing methods recognise the innate capacity of a child to be an active learner. They help us move away from teacher lectures to experiential, activity-oriented learning, thereby enabling children to make the final transition - from merely watching and listening, to learning by discussion, in cooperation and collaboration with each other.

Multiple Intelligences Theory furthers the recognition of our participatory philosophy. It reminds us that each person contributes uniquely. That we must allow for more than one correct answer; for more ways to learn other than only the verbal-linguistic, or logical/ mathematical. In accordance with the application of MI theory, our teachers try to encourage a variety of ways for learning - kinesthetic, musical, naturalist, visual/spatial, inter-personal and intra-personal. Then they use these different ways of learning to foster an acceptance and appreciation of individual differences.