it is 1 of the four pillars in learning

1. RITCHELLE R. UMHAW
PRESENTER
LEARNING TO BE in the
21st Century

2.  Learning to Be involves activities that promote holistic personal development
(body, mind and spirit), for an all-round ‘complete person.’
 Can you recall examples of activities that promote the total development of an
individual? If you mentioned cultivating a person’s self-analytical and social skills,
creativity and personal discovery, or simply appreciating the value of pursuing
these activities, then you remembered well from the previous discussion

3.  The pillar learning to be was first used in the The 1972 Faure Report to UNESCO of
the International Commission on the Development of Education on the role of
education in developing all the dimensions of the complete person: physical,
intellectual, emotional and ethical integration of the individual into a complete
human being.

4.  It further describes learning to be as “the complete fulfilment of man, in all the
richness of his personality, the complexity of his forms of expression and his
various commitments - as individual, member of a family and of a community,
citizen and producer, inventor of techniques and creative dreamer” (Delors, 1996).

5. Learning to Be Competencies
 Learning to be, as proposed in the Delors Report (1996), involves a “broad,
encompassing view of learning that aims to enable each individual to discover,
unearth and enrich his or her creative potential, to reveal the treasure within
each of us.”

6. Let us learn about the first two competencies under the education
pillar, Learning to Be (Faure, 1972), namely, using science and technology to
improve lives, and developing creativity.
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1. Appreciating the use of science and technology to improve
lives. One of the competencies under the pillar learning to
be involves the appreciation of scientific endeavours that are used to
make lives in the 21st century better. This competency also includes
fostering scientific discovery/experimentation/thinking in oneself as
a teacher and among students.

7.  2. Developing creativity. A 21st century teacher makes sure that his/her creative
talents, as well as those of his/her learners, are harnessed by creating opportunity
for aesthetic and artistic experimentation. Art and poetry should be given an
important place, alongside the more academic disciplines.

8. Learning to Be Competencies: Having Social Commitment
and Pursuing Balance and Completeness
 3. Having social commitment. This competency involves preparing yourself and
your students for life in the 21st century, realizing that you do not live in isolation
but are, in fact, a part of a larger community. In your daily life, you should
actively participate in community activities that promote freedom of thought,
judgment, feeling, and imagination to help yourself as well as other people.

9.  4. Pursuing balance and completeness. A 21st century teacher should
appreciate and respect the many facets of personality that each individual
possesses as this is part of “completing” and maximizing the potentials of all
learners. This also necessitates the “search for a balance “ among the four
dimensions of one’s persona:
a. Physical – includes your physical body and health.
b. Mental – includes your intelligence, mindset, and growth as individual,
c. Emotional – includes your feelings, maturity, and relationships with other people,
and
d. Spiritual – includes your faith, traditions, religions, and beliefs.

10. In this lesson, you learned that:
 Learning to Be involves the complete fulfilment of a human being, in all the
richness of his/her personality, the complexity of his/her forms of expression and
his various commitments – as individual, member of a family and a community,
citizen and producer, inventor of techniques and creative dreamer.

11.  The Learning to Be pillar includes:
- developing the mind and body, intelligence, sensitivity, aesthetic sense, personal
responsibility, and spiritual values
- nurturing imagination and creativity
- being complete in oneself, in all the richness of one’s personality
- developing one’s full potentials and tapping of the hidden treasure within each
individual

12.  The competencies under the pillar Learning to Be include:
- appreciating the use of science and technology to improve lives,
- developing creativity,
- having social commitment, and
- pursuing balance and completeness.