AWAKENING
Awakening is a unique Value Education program for primary school children from Class 1 to Class 5. The aim is to provide the right orientation to young children to adopt values voluntarily to enable them to respond to life’s challenges better when they grow up. It was started by Ramakrishna Mission, Delhi and is currently being implemented under the Vivekananda Institute of Values (VIVA), Gurgaon.
Purpose
Awakening Programme aims to prepare young minds to adopt certain noble values in their lives voluntarily and thereby respond to life’s challenges better. Awakening empowers a child to develop self-belief, self-reliance, self-control and good character. Unless these traits are well developed, mere book-learning can cause more harm than good. Every child has these qualities in a ‘seed’ form and gardeners, in the form of trained facilitators and parents can lovingly enable the seed to sprout, take root and grow into a powerful tree, viz. a loving and harmonious human being.
Approach
Awakening sessions are conducted by facilitators trained by Ramakrishna Mission, Delhi. The sessions involve story-telling as a major tool which gives each child an opportunity to Explore, Find, Choose and Adopt values voluntarily in an environment moderated by a facilitator. Students also engage in simple, fun activities both at school and home that allow children or them to internalize the values they explored.
Training Workshop
Primary School teachers are trained over a one-day interactive workshop in offline/online mode by Master Facilitators from Ramakrishna Mission, Delhi to develop their skills as facilitators for conducting Awakening in their schools. Two sets of kits (in Hindi/ English, depending on need) are provided free of cost to enrolled schools. Facilitators are also given access to the content in Hindi and English on a digital platform.
The story so far
Nationwide Launch of Awakening
On 15th September, 2022, the Honourable Union Minister for Education and Skill Development & Entrepreneurship Shri Dharmendra Pradhan launched the ‘Awakening’ Programme for students of classes I to V. Swami Shantatmanada, Secretary, Ramakrishna Mission, Delhi; Smt Nidhi Chibber, Chairperson, CBSE and other officials of KVS, NVS and the Ministry were present on the occasion.
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Progress of Awakening
