Core Capacities

Learning for Well-being involves realizing potential through physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual development. Cultivating children’s core capacities is central to this, enabling choices supporting well-being and awareness of their individual learning differences. Core capacities include relaxing, sensory awareness, listening, inquiring, paying attention, subtle sensing, reflecting, empathising, and discerning patterns. These are foundational to UNESCO’s Four Pillars of Education: Learning to know, do, live together, and be. Core capacities differ from key competencies, acting as building blocks. Each capacity is explored in detail, focusing on its physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual aspects.

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