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The series ‘Up and Aware’ for Life Skills and Value Education for classes K–8 has been
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conceived on the basis of the framework of values laid out by the National Council of
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Educational Research & Training (NCERT), which envisions a holistic view of education. equality

It is important to consider the impact of globalisation on the modern day learners’ developing
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minds even as educationists and parents expect them to build their ‘character’ on a set
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All of us can fluently expound a list of ethics that we want to see our children uphold.
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Every family has its own unique value system and differs in how it wishes to disseminate
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those values to its progeny. Yet, parents and facilitators ar
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Learners need to immerse themselves in a process of inquiry to make sense of the world
around them and learn to co-exist peacefully with it. Layered in this process are attitudes, honesty
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beliefs, conduct, integrity, conscience, sense of duty and honour, among other things that
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shape a human being. By exploring, debating, discussing, labelling and questioning how we
think and behave, we enable learners to deeply examine their relationship with the world individuality
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at large. In the words of Buddha, ‘All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind
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is everything. What we think, we become.’
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This series is based on the gradation as per CBSE Value Education Handbook for
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focused on in each grade and evolve gradually through the series. Across the series, all
the life skills are interconnected with the related/relevant values with an aim to entrench
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them in the learner’s learning process and to eventually urge him/her to reflect upon
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his/her behaviour. This series aims at assisting the facilitator in encouraging the learners’
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Each chapter begins with a relevant and thought-provoking passage or activity that sets
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the tone for introspection and group/paired discussion and exercises. Keeping in mind
the different styles of learning, each chapter provides scope for auditory and visual
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‘Now I Know and this is what I Think…’ is meant to concretise and assimilate the
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