Integrated Presentation Flow of HLL Topics

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HLL Sequential Topics to Present (CAPS align) in Holistic Leisure Learning Institutes

             1.   Biodiversity
2.       Markets
3.       Formulae and calculations
4.       Interpretation of information
5.       Graphical Representation of Data
6.       Report Writing
7.       Cycles
8.       Design
9.       Innovation
10.   Conservation
11.   Employment
12.   Personal Development
13.   Planning & Procession
14.   Social Development
15.   Aesthetics
16.   Growth
17.   Defence
18.   Beliefs
19.   Cultures
20.   Tourism

Essay: Integration/ The Wealth of Nations/ The Value of Holistic Life/Development/ Holism…

The world is a bowl of everything - so is a country. Yet the diversity of life can comfortably be connected via 20 core topics that naturally integrate. A sequential connection between the topics gives value and purpose to all learning within the context of the value of a nation/people. These topics are: biodiversity, markets, formulae and calculations, interpretations of information, graphical representation, report writing, cycles, design, innovation, conservation, employment, personal development, planning and progression, social development, aesthetics, growth, defence, beliefs, cultures and the 20^th topic, tourism.

A country’s biodiversity is the richness of that country. Every natural resource and species creates viable markets that allow the country to trade within its borders and with the rest of the world. The understanding of formulae and calculations allows the nation to extract the resources from its land. If the nation is unskilled, the richness of the resources of the country cannot be used to the full. The ability to interpret information is thus crucial. Reading, writing, Maths, science and business skills are core skills that must be integratively and holistically learnt and mastered by the society to gain full value of the country. Graphical representations are quick and easy ways of seeing trends and thus report writing on the viability or threats to the development of the country can thus be written accurately.

Cycles can easily be identified in the flow of life’s activities. Design elements and principles become visible in the cycles and new ideas and innovation can be identified with careful scrutiny of the patterns that become visible. Biodiversity, skills, and innovation make the conservation of resources and skills an important dimension of that society. A society that does not conserve becomes wasteful and destructive. This will lead to their annihilation. Conservation of biodiversity creates enormous employment for everyone in the country. Conservation results in sustainability which in turn creates stability which is needed for growth. Waste creates enormous unemployment, hardship and even death. Jobs allow each individual the opportunity to focus on his/her personal development within the context of consideration for the environment and humanity. Planning and proper processes become crucial for personal and social development. An aesthetic value and beauty is the result of careful planning and processing.

A society can only grow when all their resources are employed to the full and all in that society values what they have. Mutual respect is necessary for growth. It is only in such a society that every member will find it necessary to defend the beliefs, cultures and property of each member and group in the nation. Such a society’s interdependence and prosperity become visible and other societies would like to learn from them and experience their progress. Tourism to such a country will then increase and foreigners would then like to settle in such a progressive country. The foreigners, who seek citizenship in such a caring and environmentally conscious society, will then bring their skills and knowledge to the host country, thus increasing the biodiversity of their new found home.

People without the value of belief, lack the knowledge, skills and consideration for others and the environment. They will self-destruct. Social cohesion requires knowledge of Divine Power and indebtedness of individuals to a Higher Source Who allows all facets of life to integrate so beautifully. Knowledge is a necessity and the correct use of it, is wisdom, a gift that only comes to those who reflect on the aesthetic/beauty and value of everything. The scholars of deep knowledge and wisdom relate to mankind that God is the Possessor of Beauty and He loves beauty. A society that values their assets receives more and is beautiful in all aspects. A truly rich society is one that values what they have. The value of integration of seemingly unrelated topics, creates a holistic value that increases the richness of a society.

The Needed Curriculum that integrates all learning Models

786 - ICRA Comprehensive School –  Motivate, Integrate, Accelerate the Learning Culture – HLL Purpose-Matrix of Resources & Content for All Time & All Grades

·         HLL– Time Frame – All Subject Curricula Resource Presentations  must be completed before the June Examinations of each year- God Willing.

HLL Foci , Activity areas & CAPS Subjects	Conservation	Survival	Clarity	Profitability	Accuracy	Functionality	Holism	Outcomes
Nature Life Science	Resource Care Biodiversity	Communities DNA	Research Systems	Tourism Exchange	Balance Selection	Raw Materials Reproduction	Innovation Environment	·         Scientific enquiry ·         Problem Solving   ·         Environmental Sensitivity
People Life Orientation History	Beliefs Social Skills Nationalism	Family Self-development Resistance	Contact Human Rights Wars	Skills Careers Capitalism/ Communism	Respect Ethics Protests	Development Opportunities Unions	Growth Relationships End Cold War Democracy Global World Order	·         Personal well-being ·         Recreation ·         Careers ·         Enquiry ·         Sustainability
Languages English & Afrikaans	Literature Reading Lees	Dialects Drama	Arts Grammar Taal	Diplomacy Publications	Meaning Plan	Courtesy Presentations	Understanding Review Hersiening	·         Review ·         Analyse ·         Communicate
Trade Economics Tourism Accounting	Markets Systems Sectors Accounting Equation	Freedom Cycles Sustainability Ethics	Accounts Growth Communication Final Accounts	Investments Dynamics Foreign Exchange Budgeting	Jobs Labour Care Cost Accounting	Transactions Interventions Mapping Bookkeeping	Survival Development Attractions Indigenous  Systems	·         Impact Study ·         Wealth Creation ·         Human Development
Calculations Mathematics Physics	Equations Patterns Systems (Mech & Chem)	Applicability Geometry Calculus, Change	Reason Functions Equations	Budget Finance Matter,Wave	Relation Trigs; Stats Units	Ease Probability Electricity, Magnetism	Conservation Algebra Materials	·         Measurement ·         Relationships ·         Enhancement
Construction Assignments & Projects	Skills	Engineers	Plan	Versatility	Beauty	Aesthetics	Safety	·         Dexterity ·         Relevance ·         Creativity
Micro- & Telescopic Investigations	instruments	Interest	Observation	Properties	Recording	Potentialities	Possibilities	·         Observation ·         Research ·         Innovation

CAPS Assessment Guidelines and HLL Assessment levels Gr1-5 (Preparatory) Gr6-9(Comparative) Gr 10-12(Analytical) shall test students’  progress and needs – God Willing

·         HLL – Holistic Leisure Learning  - Holistic Integration of HLL Activity Areas -Nature encompasses People, People need Languages, Trade is business language, Calculations is necessary for trade, Construction is a result of calculations, and everything in the Micro-and Telescopic Universes are constructed

·         Any institutional subject/ skills development can be integrated into the above HLL-Content Matrix – by God’s Grace. HLL finds its origin in The Holy Qur’an.

In Memory of Zakieeyah Arnold (1986-2006)

We found this hand-written piece of reflection in my daughter Zakiieyah's Visual Diary a day after she had passed away ( She actually received her final results that same day after she passed away - and she had distinctions )- she had just completed her 3rd year in Graphic Design at Stellenbosche University. She died on 26 November 2006.

The paper we found was as if she was counselling us from the grave. -may Allah SWT Grant her a High place in Jannah - in shaa Allah and may these words of her be an inspiration to many in shaa Allah. A close friend of her became Muslim 7 years after her death - and came to say her Kalima in our home - saying to us that she found inspiration by having known Zakieeyah and hence wants to accept Islam in the home Zakieeyah lived.

These were her words:

" Logically there is a peace in Islam, which lives in air, hearts and moves us when we hear The Words  of our Lord, Whom we love more than anything or anyone in this world.

Our breath is what allows us to live, to love, to hate, to be. Our breath is not our own. We cannot command it, as we cannot will our hearts to beat if it may cease to do so. Our minds are not our own, nor our thoughts. We are products of those around us. We do not create, we imitate and re-interpret. Nothing we do is original. We cannot make air or water or force life into rock, which has no order to breathe. We exist in the realm of ultimate dependence. Every breath we take is by The Grace of God - A Power from which all love, all creations, all beauty that is in this world comes from; A Power from Whom all knowledge stems. These very words are incapable of expressing the vastness of such an Almighty Force. He is closer to us than our jugular vein. We are slaves of His Will and followers of His Message. Our lives are lived to serve and learn. IQRA, read, the First Word Revealed to us from The Almighty - Read, Question, Understand. Learn about His world, The Beauty, The Science and those whom He has Chosen to bring His Message. We must follow. The Truth is The Only Reality: The Truth of One God, and The Religion of Islam. There is no separation between Islam and Spirituality - Islam is Spirituality and Spirituality is Islam.

Sleep is pleasant death - one which comes as quietly and forcefully as the sun. Sleep in which I dream is my sweet death. The life , which we live forever in different forms, becomes quiet and solemn when sleep blankets our eyes,. Our consciousness, which rules our minds in the day, steps aside for our sweet deaths.

We only die once

We only die once and live forever

We only die once, but live forever

Death is an awakening to the Reality that is Truth.
Truth is the Certainty of God - All Knowing, All Powerful.
Truth is or Obedience.

Alghamdu Lillaa-hi Rob-bil 'aa0la-meen
(Praise be to Allah, The Lord, Sustainer of all the universes)

Please - never forget to pray for her - that Allah SWT will raise her in Stations upon Stations in paradise in the life hereafter in the close proximity of our Loving GOD, Allah SWT (Most Exalted) and may we be united with Him and her in the hereafter - in shaa Allah - aameen.

She is in the constant memory of her parents and sisters  - in shaa Allah
We will always love her and we shall miss her and we ask Allah SWT to ease our pain in our hearts - and grant us patients and contentment  - in shaa Allah

P.S. I home schooled my children on the Holistic Leisure Learning method. The day after she passed away a friend of her told us that she loved her home schooling - this was my inspiration to reopen the school on a bigger scale - in memory of her - the school children and I pray for her everyday at ICRA Comprehensive School in Bo-Kaap cape Town. Pray for us that Allah SWT make all our children from our school successful in this life and in the hereafter - in shaa Allah - Aameen.

Awareness by M.F.Arnold

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Awareness by M.F.Arnold

Critical Skills, without interconnected Value,
Is like isolating ingredients, but Missing the Meal.
Duality, without Complimentary Necessity,
Is like a Mother and Father forgetting their Parenthood.

Science & Maths, as separate subjects,
Denies their Interdependent Processes.

Multiplicity is Unity
And Unity Creates Multiplicity.
This Awareness Builds Communities,
Through Individual Consciousness
of Divine Connection,
Who Grants Personal Growth & Social Benefit.

Schools have longed to individualise, to create
Competitive animals for cut-throat profit drivers,
To serve rich manipulators.
The market Crash in 2008/9,
Demolished "It is all mine !"
Ushers in the Need for The Divine.

Charity came to Save
the Chaotic Waves.

Research now proves Divine Order.
Submission, Attains Permission,
Refuting Evolution
and Establish the Ever-Present Revolution:
"all for One and One for all".

The Prophets, be Blessed,
who long taught how to Assess
The Value of True Success.

The Value of Faith

In the day of open communication and extremist behaviours, personally confused readers and listeners are swept away from faith while sincere seekers enter the faith of Islam. Evils are veils to truth for the ungrateful egotist and openings to the grateful seeker of goodness. There has always been a time when enemies of God try to discredit Him - at the time of the prophets and up until today and it will be so in the future. This is understandable, because the ego of mankind will always exist and that must go through stages of questioning and arrival. 

Good intentions are the key to truth. Evil intentions naturally lead to confusion and evil actions whatever the sources of learning may be. When so-called liberalists and secularists try to discredit a faith on the basis of the evildoers it is obvious that they were looking for a reason to excite their inner agitation to be a disbeliever/ ungrateful human to God. Any human who refuses to believe in God as his/her Creator is obviously oblivious to his existence as a human body, as a creation that does not operate by its own will, but through the Grace of God.The "involuntary" God-given functions of all his/her organs including his/her brain (he/she wishes to use) to refute its Creator, are marvels of God's Mercy. The human body and the universes existence are the proofs of the existence of A Supreme Power that regulates and moves each atom. The simplest question - where do "I" come from and where do each predecessors come from, will naturally lead to the Origin being from One who is Infinite, Uncreated, All Powerful and All Present. 

The actions of evil-doers are fuelled by ungrateful, egotistical self-absorption, which stems from critical thinking, which has its origins in mistrust and doubt. For a believer he/she starts from a position of faith, sincerity, certainty and learns to integrate all existence into an holistic appreciation of goodness and thus increasing in faith in God. The disbeliever's time is spent trying to convince himself/herself that he/she is right to disbelieve and in the process alienates himself/herself from the people and world around him/her while secretly feeling the agitation of inner faith which he/she is trying to quell. This results is an accumulation of dissatisfaction and disharmony that translates into self-delusion - deaf, dumb and blind to any form of truth - a kind of empty peace with no-one to thank except him/herself for being arrogant. To the believer, he /she basks in certainty, which translate into discovering of new arena's of amazement and extended feelings of gratefulness and appreciation for The Creator. His/her world expands into multidimensional universes of experiences that leaves him/her in awe and wonder of the Magnificence of the Creator's bounties. His/her life is filled with nearness to worthy people who are quietly enjoying every moment and not spending his/her time arguing with people about his/her personal view, but rather joining with people of certainty that enhances the value of goodness and creating harmonies through which all can benefit.

Comparing HLL with Conventional Schooling

Comparing HLL (Holistic Leisure Learning) and Conventional School Systems

Core Issues	Holistic Leisure Learning	Known/Possible effects	Conventional Schooling	Known/Possible Effects
Central Focus	Holistic Student Development via integration of subjects and grades in open interconnected spaces	Sees the value of self, others and subjects in broader holistic integrated context, seeing the value of young and old developing a sense of extended family values	Capitalistic Career driven via Fractionalisation subjects, peer groupings	Individualistic competitiveness within  group mentality creating the basis for bullying and gangsterism
Position of the child	Child Central with regard to personal interests, talent, skills, knowledge and choice	Positive self-esteem and  self-image and value of others’ talents	Grade and prescriptive subject curriculum central	child’s personal interests, talents, skills, knowledge oppressed – only academic skills determine pass – loss of self-esteem – increase aggression /inhibitions/ disengagement
Content	Integrated matrix that give value to continuous learning	Holistic value of all subjects	Subjects  fractionalised into periods and lessons and the holistic value and no integration with other subjects	Students and teachers lack knowledge of the holistic integrative value of all subjects
Learning exposures	Resource driven – summarised posters and videos covering months and years of work in one day exposures, student free to engage with the resources and teaching is on demand when students have difficulty. Each child gets personal attention. Flash-drive lessons and cell-phone pictures and recording are constant references	Self-motivated student that takes responsibility for his/her learning and developing a confidence in approaching others and trust in being assisted when needed. Reading and critical skills develop through interaction with resources, performs well due repetition of the whole through the year.	Supply Teaching –centred through fractionalised lesson presentations that stretch small amounts of unrelated knowledge over a 10 month period – often teachers do not complete the syllabus leaving the rest for homework. Even technology use is restricted to period availability and teacher skills. Child fades away in the group. No personal attention. Class group dynamics	Students become dependent on teachers, losing their self-motivation, forgetting basic knowledge over the long stretched-out periods thus not being able to perform well at the end of the year when all the knowledge is tested. Learner reading and critical skills are lacking because teachers drive the process. Student become a passive learner with no confidence to ask questions
Time	Needed state Curriculum completed in 3 months. Flash-drive lessons available for student’s interventions 24/7	Allows research. Time available for students’ personal interest development as part of student’s contribution to school content. Students become personally motivated to strive.	Curriculum needs take 12 months.	Students no opportunity to follow personal research to add to the content of the school. Frustration sets in
Home-work	None.	Freedom to study, explore	Over-supply.	Little time to study/explore
Spirituality	Holistically integrated	Personal transformations No discipline problems	None	Spiritual deterioration, school crime increases

Understanding The Structural Problems in Education, Unemployment & Health

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Understanding The Structural Problems in Education, Unemployment & Health by M.F.Arnold

Formal Education (secular & religious) is primarily seen as a must for progress, yet many people, including the Prophet (Pbuh), had no formal education. He could not read or write. He was as pure as when his mother gave birth to him (Um-mee-yuun). Thus, he was absolutely pure in thought and action, because he was unadulterated - uncontaminated by outside influence and indoctrination. He observed life and appealed to the Greatest Truth, Allah SWT, for Guidance and he received it for humanity. With the Support of God, he acted fearlessly and courteously and Arabia was transformed from a barbaric existence to the seat of enlightenment.

It is understandable that every effort will be made by people without faith in God to try and influence people to believe in human systems and constructs to survive. Their systems and constructs create fears in people to give of their assets to them for securities. If fears come from satan, then anyone who succumbs to fears will become a disciple of satan, because he/she will promote belief in fear and lose the strength of positivity, which is faith in God, Almighty, as Provider, Protector and Powerful.

To create fear, they create systems and constructs that break down the self-worth of people:

1.       Standardise all through “education” and give no credit for talent and informal learning

2.       Group the masses so that competition can thrive and cut-throat tactics can be employed

3.       Create hierarchies that create red-tape that saps the energies of people in education, business & religion

4.       Give titles (academic achievements) to instill in people obedience in hierarchies

5.       Control people through consistent monitoring by the management staff of hierarchies

6.       Sponsor aggressive team sport that foster group mentality and competitive natures that builds hostilities to divide people

7.       Create policies for external assessments – with curricula drafted by the enfranchised - to drive acceptance to conformity through fractionalisation of knowledge that drags out content to frustrate students and ensures a lack of self-worth in individuals, controls the job-market and creates a pool of unemployed to ensure exploitive wage offers – modern slavery.

These kinds of systems and constructs (the status quo) create structural educational dilemmas, unemployment, crime and illness (of those who feel the manipulation but lack the skills and support to make qualitative changes). When one understands the origin of social and medical problems due to all the stresses created by human constructs, one sympathises with the victims of social, intellectual, economic, cultural and religious abuse. Abuse is a result of fear and control mechanisms that feed on the lower ego of man that wants to be in charge and control others. That is why slaves often became slave-owners and the abused often become the abusers. Fear sells products of “security” –interest-related loans, insurance, credit, education accreditations, burials, products and services appeals to lower-self fears. This creates attachment to materialism which translates into different forms of arrogance as a camouflage for inner insecurities. – This makes people aggressive and oppressive towards one another and forgetful of The Divine Presence and Grace.

When people realise that what they possess is divinely entrusted to them to be shared (only 2.5% per year on savings) to support others, they will act differently. The will help each other achieve success without fear of losing position or safety, because they know God Cares for all. These simple Qur’anic Guidelines free all to respect each other and progress together. There is no better feeling in life than to know you have helped someone reach his/her dream. This is how each one becomes Blessed and feels valued from within and then need no false securities or tricked accolades. Crime and exploitation will cease to exist in a supportive community and health will improve- In shaa Allah Aameen – because no-one will live to impress another or be in fear of being alone/ abused, because they experience genuine communal support (Ma’ruuf).

The young cyber success bosses, without hierarchical university degrees, and the gifted children who give scholarly lectures in Qur’an are the Divine Signs against hierarchy and human constructs. Let’s value each other, to ensure our own and the community’s success – in shaa Allah – Aameen – It is possible – Make a niyyah (sincere intention) and Allah SWT (God) Will Make it happen. Let’s entrust our work with Allah SWT.