Integral Education with Societal Extension: Factoring Social Environment to Empower Future Generations with Holistic Human Development and Social Leadership
Abstract
This paper explores ways to integrate social responsibility approach to human development and analyses the feasibility of imparting social-leadership among the youth through incorporating social environment and integral teaching-learning pedagogy. The research method adopted is narrative-analytical exposition. The paper finds that co-operative rights-based approach and social responsibility approach in education can collectively create an appropriate ecosystem that can fulfill suitable developmental needs of the society and help in sustenance of development attainments.
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