First we will discuss the principles of the preparation of the integrated unit entitled (translated literally) “Picking flowers having impacts on the stars”. It’s like picking flowers on this earth and yet having effects on the stars such a distance away. This is the title of the curriculum for primary level 1- 6.

   Education management of Thawsi school arises from the confidence and faith of education in Buddhism which teaches human beings to regard everything as related as integrated together throughout the universe with no end. It does not look at human beings as a separated entity, as a manager of nature but it encourages perception of the whole thing as an integrated unit.



   Education from the past up to the present time tends to emphasize the technical aspect as a starting point and is not based on the lives of human beings or the mind of people as a starting point, but emphasizes the technical aspect or subject matter like how to make a living. This type of education tends to focus on the external aspects of human beings. It is a learning process which is not integrated but a partitioned one, and it is not intended for the learner to know and to develop oneself.

That is why problems arise everywhere in the world socially, economically, and environmentally. These problems come back to haunt and have negative impacts on everybody at the present time. So the learning process in an integrated manner is an “answer” and an important “principle” in educational management of Thawsi School. Students are required to try to see the relationship and visualize the totality of the whole thing.

   Students are encouraged to learn about the external things in such a way that they can also learn about the relationships among various things, can integrate them together to see the big picture.
Ultimately, they are also encouraged to relate back to cultivate and develop their own mind. The principle in designing the integrated unit at the primary level involves the use of subject matters in various areas from science, social science, religion, culture, occupation, technological development and art based on the curriculum as required by the Ministry of Education curriculum of 2001.
Summary and overview of the subject

“Picking flowers having impacts on the stars” for Primary school grade 1 Primary School Grade 2 Primary School Grade 3 Primary School Grade 4 Primary School Grade 5 Primary School Grade 6