The Concept of Buddhist Teaching and Active Learning Approaches

Abstract

This journal presented “The concept of Buddhist Teaching and Active Learning Approaches” to apply the strength of each teaching approach for maximum benefit. The Buddhist teaching approach consisted of various ways such as description, problem solving, demonstration, comparison, and exemplification etc. Moreover, the proactive and reactive Buddhist teaching approach considered the ability and interest conforming to the intelligence quotient and lifestyle of the students by teaching from the known things to the unknown things, the concrete to abstract, and the ease to difficulty. This approach taught individually and in the small and big groups that the students did correctly by themselves. The Buddha was the director until the students succeeded in the learning by doing. However, the active learning approach was a process of teaching and learning by doing for the knowledge from the experience such as asking the question, reflection, games, and brainstorming etc. This approach was the activities for the Higher-order thinking process of the students such as analysis, synthesis, and evaluation by the collaboration of students conforming to the brain working in the memory because the learning through the practicality could collect them in the long-term memory system. It made the result of learning remaining. The concept of the two teaching approaches was useful to the education extremely.