Jung and the Anthropogogical Mandala

Mandala is a circle that represents Wholeness, which represents Divine, our relation to the Infinite, the world within our body and mind and the world outside. Nir Golan, an educational and leadership expert, suggests combining the terms Pedagogy (child learning) and Androgogy (male / adult), into one term, Anthropogogy: to mean human learning (Greek) – Anthrop (άνθρωπ) means people and Agy (άγω) means to conduct / lead. The Anthropogogical Mandala, by NIRIC educational model, represents the circle of human learning process.

Teaching should be carried out alongside the comprehensive development of the human being regardless of his/her biological age. The distinction between a child's learning and an adult's learning is not relevant because the differences between adults and children are disappearing. Therefore, the child learner should be treated like an adult learner, using the Anthropogogical Mandala, by NIRIC Educational Mandala. The NIRIC Educational Mandala has five circles:
Need
Independent
Renovate
Immediate replay
Community 

Jung about Meaning of Mandalas

'The "squaring of the circle" is one of the many archetypal motifs which form the basic patterns of our dreams and fantasies… Indeed, it could even be called the archetype of wholeness’…  The Mandala really is: ‘Formation, Transformation, Eternal Mind’s eternal recreation’. The Anthropogogical Mandala is Formation, Transformation, Internal Mind’s learning recreation.

The NIRIC Educational Mandala has five circles:
1.   Need 

The need is from one or more of the following zones: Passion, Capabilities and Added value.
2.   Independent 

The freedom to choose and control the next six parameters of his/her learning process: Duration, Evaluation, Syllabus, Partners, Space and Methods.

3.   Renovate
A new solution or contribution in the Knowledge, Awareness, Perception and Skills fields.
4.   Immediate replay

·        Technological proficiency

·        Collaboration

·        Communication

·        Global awareness

·        Problem solving

·        Creativity

·        Critical thinking

5.   Community

Learning in a Community improves learning motivation while using People, Authority, Praise, Reward, Prestige and team Mission.

'Very ancient magical effects are hidden in this symbol for it derives originally from the 'enclosing circle', the 'charmed circle', the magic of which has been preserved in countless folk customs. The image has the obvious purpose of drawing a sulcus primigenius, a magical furrow around the center, the templum, or temenos (sacred precinct), of the innermost personality, in order to prevent 'flowing out', or to guard by apotropaeic means against deflections through external influences. The magical practices are nothing but the projections of psychic events like learning, which are here applied in reverse to the psyche. That is to say, by means of these concrete performances, the attention, or better said, the interest, is brought back to an inner, sacred domain, which is the source and goal of the soul and which contains the unity of life and consciousness. The unity once possessed has been lost, and must now be found again.' The best way to find it is by using the Anthropogogical Mandala of learning accomplished by NIRIC Educational model: Need, Independent, Renovate, Immediate replay and Community.