New Online Course for Teachers

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Online Course for Teachers
Ethics Education for Children: A Transformative Pedagogy for Learning to Live Together

The current situation in the world with the COVID-19 pandemic has forced 1.2 billion children out of school, impacting their overall well-being as many experience malnutrition, violence at home, higher levels of stress, anxiety and uncertainty about the future; some do not have access to online or remote learning opportunities, and many are struggling with social isolation.

During these challenging times, educators have a critical role to play in supporting children's social, emotional and spiritual well-being, and creating learning opportunities to strengthen children's critical thinking, sense of belonging to a larger community, interconnectedness with others while keeping physical distancing, and providing spaces for children to reflect about and respond to the ethical challenges we all face.

This online course builds on Arigatou International's long-standing expertise in promoting ethics education for children. It will provide educators with knowledge and tools to use a transformative pedagogy that places children at the center of the educational experience, helps creating safe learning environments, responds to their context and realities, and fosters participatory and collaborative learning. A pedagogy that encourages critical thinking, imagination and critical consciousness about the realities of children, and promotes self-driven learning, which are critical components for education today.

Above all, educators will identify concrete ways to engage children in ethical reflections, nurture their spirituality and foster interconnectedness and collective action in a world that needs to learn how to live together.

Course Details

Dates: 8 to 13 June 2020

Modality: Individual work with one joint webinar

Who should attend: Educators

Register by: 1 June 2020

A certificate will be granted to those successfully completing the course.

Learning Objectives:

This course aims to create learning opportunities for teachers to:

Get acquainted with the Arigatou International Ethics Education Framework and pedagogical approach and how it responds to the needs of the current context.

Share each other’s contexts during COVID-19 and implications on children and education.

Learn how to create safe, positive and empowering learning environments and opportunities for children and youth while fostering interfaith learning and collaboration.

Identify concrete ways to strengthen children’s ability to reflect about the current situation and respond to the ethical challenges during and after the COVID-19 Pandemic while fostering.

Develop strategies to ensure children’s socio-emotional and spiritual well-being and to empower them as agents of positive change.

This online course for teachers is part of "Faith in Action for Children,” a global campaign launched by Arigatou International to call on religious leaders and communities to increase their actions in response to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on children.

If you have any doubts or comments, please send us a message.