Topics include both the SCI curriculum materials for these levels and the instructional guidelines provided in Maharishi's Principles of Ideal Teaching. The primary focus of this course is the emergence of Maharishi's Absolute Theory of Education from Maharishi Vedic Science and Technology. This course focuses on the process of learning. It presents a range of learning strategies that are useful across academic curricula as well as non-academic learning experiences. Strategies explored include mapping, creating a learning context, reviewing, and relating all learning processes to oneself.
Students also practice teaching theses strategies.
This course studies the implications of theories of human development and learning for education. The first part of the course looks at theories of both cognitive and affective development and deals with topics such as factors influencing development, endpoints of development, and the nature of intelligence. Students will study the work of Piaget, Vygotsky, Erikson, Kohlberg, Gardner, and Maharishi. The second part of the course focuses both on cognitive and behavioral views of learning. Topics include classical and operant conditioning, social learning, information processing, problem solving, creativity, and constructivism.