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SRI AUROBINDO STUDIES CENTRE, DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

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Giant strides in Science and Technology, mass political awakening, increasing interaction among people of diverse faiths, cultures and value systems, globalization of economy creating greater social and economic mobility during the last century have released new forces in the process of evolution which need to be channelised and harnessed fruitfully for constructive purposes. This requires concurrent transformation in the inner dimensions of human personality by horizontal and vertical expansion of consciousness levels. Education, refashioned remodelled and re envisioned, to meet the needs of emerging trends, has to play a seminal role in the future destiny of man on earth.

            The University of Lucknow believes that the philosophic base provided by Sri Aurobindo, is fertile enough for the saplings of present and future Indian Education. What is required today is to plough the field. There is a need of a platform on which scholars of diverse disciplines assemble and churn the abstract thought of Sri Aurobindo and bring out an educational plan and sound research base where experiments in theory and practice of education on lines of Sri Aurobindo may be done and tested. Keeping this in mind a centre of Sri Aurobindo Studies was established in the year 2008 under the auspices of U.G.C. scheme of epoch making social thinkers.

 

Coordinator:                      Prof. Subodh Kumar

Assistant Coordinator:     Dr. Amita Bajpai

 

Purpose of the Centre  

 

1.                  The centre will act as a nodal centre devoted to collection, conservation and preservation of primary and secondary sources of information and to collect the research studies and projects as completed so far on Sri Aurobindo.

2.         The centre will act as a platform for interaction and exchange of ideas of the scholars belonging to divergent fields of knowledge and higher level thinking and critique.

3.         The centre will also endeavour to find out possibilities to infuse Sri Aurobindo’s thought at various plug points in the Under Graduate and Post Graduate courses as well as the curricula of various Social Science and Teacher Education Programmes run by different University Departments.

4.         The purpose of the centre will also be to formulate research projects and implement the same.

 

Programmes/Activities of the Centre

 

·        The conduct part time courses of about 6 month's duration for teachers and students of the University and its Associated Colleges/Functionaries of Non Government Organizations, Corporate Executives and Government officers focusing on various aspects of thinking and works of Sri Aurobindo.

·        To provide a forum for interactive sessions to the degree level students in Sri Aurobindo’s philosophy for current world.

·        To conduct Workshops to develop Plan to organize School /College on the lines of Sri Aurobindo’s educational thought.

·        To organize Seminars/Conferences/Workshops/Lecture series related to Sri Aurobindo’s philosophy of education.

·        To promote research studies in the field of Sri Aurobindo’s Integral Education.

·        To conduct field work and action programmes on the basis of constructive Programmes related to the thought of Sri Aurobindo.

·        To provide teaching support to other University Departments where short term courses on Sri Aurobindo’s Philosophy have been introduced.

·        To prepare modules of courses for short duration based on Sri Aurobindo’s Philosophy of Education.

·        To develop audio and video cassettes /CD’s of different activities / lectures.

·        To set up a separate section of Sri Aurobindo’s literature in the Departmental library, for use of students and teachers.

·        To develop specific materials for teachers and prepare teaching learning material for students.

·        To organize various porgrammes at primary and secondary levels to acquaint the students with the integral education.

 

Target Clientele :

 

1.                  Under graduate and post graduate students of faculty of education and interested students from other University Departments.

2.                  Ph.D. students of various faculties of University of Lucknow.

3.                  Primary and secondary level students and teachers both from rural and urban areas.  

 

Advisory Committee:

 

            The advisory committee will meet at least twice a year to plan various programmers and review the accounts and report of the programmes already conducted and will offer constructive suggestions for the improvement of the programmes.

 

 

            The Advisory Committee consists of the following members:

Vice -Chancellor University of Lucknow Chairman.
Prof. Saroj Anand, Dept. of Education University of Lucknow   Head.
Prof U.C. Vashishtha,  Dept. of Education University of Lucknow Member
Prof. M. Varma, Dept. of Education University of Lucknow Member
Sri P.M. Saxena, C- 105 Sector J, Aliganj, Lucknow Member
Sri Deva Dutta, Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondichery Member
One expert nominated by UGC. New Delhi Member