Research Ethics using Research Methodology: Creating a New Global Education Curriculum

Mission Statement: Well Being and Mental Health are global concerns. Education is expected to impact the behaviourof graduating students to enable these. Well Being is negatively impacted when there is cognitive dissonance, for example. This includes individual actions, feelings, ideas, beliefs and values. It also includes things in the environment. Two broad sources of dissonance exist:(a) There is cognitive dissonance within the individual. Psychological stress occurs when action and ideas are not psychologically consistent. Resolving them causes stress.(b) There is dissonance with practices followed by others in society. This may happen when ideas and actions in the environment are not resolved with the individual's ideas, ethics, values etc.Education is now expected to create a framework for resolving both. Material Sciences are taught and tested using a 'practical'. Ancient wisdom's science of creating Well Being (with prosperity) encourages students to experiment with and experience the power of voluntary practices. These actualize each individual's human potential, too. They work in the following way:(a) Wisdom seeks to remove cognitive dissonance by seeking unity and harmony between the three human outputs of thought, word and deed.How to make students actualize their potential and self-actualize?(b) Ancient wisdom asks students to travel through three routes: Self Observation, Self Discovery and Self Discipline. When many members of society voluntarily practice self discipline, dissonance with behaviour of others in society is likely to diminish. Thus the Course begins with a practice of daily self observation. The discipline of self observation leads to self analysis and self discovery. This, finally, leads to self discipline, as a natural choice. When graduating students develop self discipline it leads to righteous conduct (called Dharma in ancient wisdom). When decision makers in society follow righteous conduct, it prevents social problems (disorder, chaos, unethical and immoral behavior, falsehood, crime, corruption etc.) and economic problems (economic recessions). The appropriate use of the human mind actualizes human potential. Education must help students use the full potential of the human mind. Course Objective: Fulfilling the 2030 education goal of OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development – an intergovernmental economic organization to stimulate economic progress, world trade). It should outline the basis of a curriculum to create Well Being and remove social pain. This goal was created after the 2008 recession, which caused much social pain. OECD concluded that despite the industrial and digital revolutions, the spread of technology and education – which led to prosperity in the last 150 years - social pain was created. It now seeks Well Being, not prosperity, as education’s goal. Course Structure: Ideas that can create such a curriculum are researched during this course: Research Ethics using Research Methodology. Their validation is sought and found in evidence of four decades. Course Hypothesis: Social Pain is not a natural calamity. It must have been caused by human actions. What guides them? The use of the mind guides actions. Can we analyze how its use caused social pain? Course Methodology: The methodology of the course traces the journey of the mind. How did it travel to cause social pain in last 150 years? Can evidence, even in a microcosm of society, show if education ideas can create Well Being in a sustainable manner - over many decades? The Course finds such ideas -that transformed social pain and created Well Being. These emerged from ancient wisdom’s practices. Course Findings: The Course concludes that more than transforming curricula, transforming the human mind (that comprehends and applies them) is a solution. The transformation of the human mind comes through practices. The first among such practices is ‘Speak the Truth, follow Righteous Conduct’. Other practices, identified at the conclusion, follow naturally. When we apply this approach to the real world, we find that 2008’s recession occurred because the truth of derivatives in USA housing was not told. The 2020 crisis occurred because the truth, of how deadly the virus is, was not revealed initially. Righteous conduct could not be indulged in, creating a global crisis. This helps us identify the Course requirement. Course Requirement: To transform all, we start with students. Each student must try to speak the truth and follow righteous conduct. He/ she should voluntarily maintain a daily dairy to record progress. This dairy may record if assignments given plagiarized ideas. It is not necessary to share the dairy’s content. A mirror helps check the body’s hygiene. A dairy serves as the mind’s mirror. It checks mental hygiene. Self-analysis is a requirement of the course. Without self-analysis human transformation is not possible.