holistic development is a philosophical approach in eduacation

1. Holistic Development
is a philosophy of education based on the
premise that each person finds identity,
meaning, and purpose in life through
connections to the community, to the
natural world, and to humanitarian values
such as compassion and peace. Holistic
education aims to call forth from people
an intrinsic reverence for life and a
passionate love of learning

2. Holism
• Is about seeing things as a whole and as
something that is bigger than the sum of its
parts

4. Various Aspects of Holistic
Development
• Physiological
• Cognitive
• Psychological
• Social
• spiritual

5. • Physiological or the physical attributes
including the five physical senses;
• Cognitive or the intellectual functions of the
mind: thinking, recognizing, reasoning,
analyzing, projecting, synthesizing, recalling,
and assessing;
• Psychological or how thinking, feeling, and
behaving interact and happen in a person;

6. • Social or the manner by which an individual
interacts with other individuals or groups of
individuals; and
• Spiritual or the attribute of a person’s
consciousness and beliefs, including the values
and virtues

7. Basic Drives and Affect
Psychologists often refer to basic human drives
as those that are biologically related such as
hunger and thirst.
Affect on the other hand, is the various
emotional experiences such as emotions, moods,
and affective traits.

8. Emotions and Feelings
• Emotions is taken from the Latin verb,
movare, which means to move or be upset or
agitated.
• are usually caused by physical sensations
experienced by the body as a reaction to
certain external stimulus.
• 6 basic human emotions: happiness, sadness,
fear, anger, surprise, and disgust.

9. Feelings
• Feelings are the result from the emotions that
were experienced.
• An example of this would be the emotion of
being afraid, which produces a feeling of fear.

10. Attitudes and Behavior
Attitudes are a person’s thoughts, feelings and
emotions about another person, object, idea,
behavior, or situation. Attitude is a result of a
person’s evaluation of an experience with
another person, object, idea, behavior, or
situation based on his or her values and belief
system.
Behavior is a manifestation or acting out of the
attitudes an individual has.