Online Course for Educators
Ethical Challenges during COVID-19 & implications for Children and Youth (+ live Webinar)
Session 3 – Ethical Challenges posed by COVID-19
During this session you will get an opportunity to:
- Explore the current worlds’ ethical challenges posed by COVID-19 at an individual, collective, educational levels.
- Reflect on what these challenges imply for children, for their development, spiritual well-being and their interconnectedness with people of different cultures and beliefs.
- Through an interactive discussion on Ethical Challenges during Covid-19 and its implications for Children and Youth, we will identify how we can support children and young people to be more resilient, hopeful and be agents of positive change in their own communities.
Session 3 : Live Webinar
Ethical Challenges during Covid-19 and its implications for Children
This interactive webinar was held on Thursday, 17 June 2021 at 13:00-15:30hrs GMT (15:00-17:30hrs CET)
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Days Hours Minutes Seconds
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDnIUhuziGU
Presentation by Ms. Lilis Musyarropah
Presentation by Prof. Amr Abdalla
Educational Evaluation: A Relational Perspective – Dr. Scherto Gill and Prof. Kenneth Gergen
Beyond the Tyranny of Testing: towards a relational orientation to educational evaluation – Dr. Scherto Gill
Panelists
Dr. Scherto Gill
Senior Fellow, The Guerrand-Hermès Foundation for Peace Research Institute
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Dr Scherto Gill is a Senior Fellow at the GHFP Research Institute, Visiting Fellow at the University of Sussex, Research Fellow at University of Wales, and Fellow of Royal Society of the Arts (FRSA). Through academic research and grassroots projects, Scherto actively explores ways to implement ideas such as deep dialogue, ethics of caring, holistic well-being and spirituality in social transformation and peacebuilding. She writes in the fields of education, ethics, and governance. Her most recent books include: Happiness, Flourishing and the Good Life: A Transformative Vision of Human Well-Being (Routledge), Unders
Dr. Xiaoan Li
Senior Program Officers, The Fetzer Institute
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From the many projects Xiaoan is involved in —which include spiritual leadership development, healing democracy, and spiritual development in the context of higher education—he really enjoys helping build an ecosystem for the spiritual development of children and youth. That body of work focuses on the question of how to promote the spiritual and moral development of young people in and through U.S. pre-K and K – 12 schools with the goal of better integrating the head and the heart, the mind, the body, and the soul.
Prior to his work at the Institute, he held numerous teaching and leadership positions in educational institutions in China and the United States. Xiaoan received his PhD in higher education and organizational change at the University of California, Los Angeles.
His passion towards working with young people naturally includes two of his own: David and Clare. Playing baseball with David and reading together with Clare are his favorite things to do in the world. When Xiaoan has time to spare, he plays basketball and daydream about playing for the New York Knicks.
Ms. Lilis Musyarropah
Teacher, SMP Labschool Kebayoran, Indonesia and member of UNESCO ASP.net
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Lilis also known among her students at Mrs. L is an English teacher at the SMP Labschool Kebayoran, Indonesia and the homeroom teacher for grade 9.
She is a member of UNESCO ASP.net and is the coordinator for UNESO ASP.net, Generation Global, iEARN and other international related programmes at her school. She is the leader of the Scout group at the school. She enjoys working with her beloved students and teachers to make a difference.
Prof. Amr Abdalla
Emeritus Professor and the former Vice Rector at the University for Peace (UPEACE).
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As a professor, Abdalla teaches courses on conflict analysis and resolution, terrorism, and research methods in the area of peace building. In addition to this role, Abdalla is also a visiting professor of Conflict Analysis and Resolution at the Graduate School of Islamic and Social Sciences in Leesburg, Virginia. Prior to joining the University for Peace, Abdalla was a senior fellow with the Peace Operations Policy Program, School of Public Policy at George Mason University. His academic and professional careers are multi-disciplinary. He has been teaching graduate classes in conflict analysis and resolution, and has conducted training, research and evaluation of conflict resolution and peace building programs in several countries in Africa, Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and the Americas. He has been an active figure in promoting effective cross-cultural messages within the Islamic and Arabic-speaking communities in America through workshops, television, and radio presentations. He has also been actively involved in inter-faith dialogues in the United States. Abdalla pioneered the development of the first conflict resolution training manual for the Muslim communities in the United States titled “…Say Peace.” He also founded Project LIGHT (Learning Islamic Guidance for Human Tolerance), a community peer-based anti-discrimination project funded by the National Conference for Community and Justice (NCCJ). He obtained a law degree in Egypt in 1977 where he practiced law as a prosecuting attorney from 1978 to 1987. He then emigrated to the U.S. where he obtained a Master’s degree in Sociology and a Ph.D. in Conflict Analysis and Resolution from George Mason University.
Dr. Kezevino Aram
President, Shanthi Ashram, Co-chair, Arigatou International Advisory Group, and Co-moderator, Religions for Peace
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- Co-moderator and Executive Committee Member, Religions for Peace International
- Co-chairperson, Arigatou International Advisory Group
- Member, Board of Directors, KAICIID Dialogue Center
- Member, Governing Council, National Foundation for Communal Harmony
Dr. Aram is currently the President of a dedicated Gandhian Institution Shanti Ashram. In its 32nd year, it has become a centre for development, learning and practice. The service outreach of Shanti Ashram has also grown over the past 10 years to cover nearly 80,000 vulnerable children and partner 232 institutions annually. Her pioneering work also includes intersections between ‘poverty-ethics-development-health’.
Dr.Aram is deeply committed to the Gandhian spirit and convenes at Shanti Ashram the Sarvo-Foco Roundtables. Over the last 10 years 21 such roundtables have been held. With a consortium of Gandhian institutions she coordinates development collaborations for women & children and has been part of interfaith dialogue efforts for the past twenty years.
She has contributed to conceptualization and development of the interfaith resource for ethics education ‘Learning to Live Together’ at Arigatou International together with UNESCO and UNICEF. As well, she has contributed towards Unicef’s ‘violence against children’ and ‘children in world religions’ study, the Global health council’s interfaith initiative on women, religion and HIV and the multi-agency women, faith and development initiative. Important national assignments at the National Foundation of Communal Harmony (NFCH), in 2015 included leading an expert’s team to review and strengthen Government of India’s, ‘Project Assist’, a country-wide government programme that helps children affected by communal violence and the Interfaith Initiative for Children on learning, education and ethics.
An alumnus of the Harvard School of Public Health & PSG Institute of Medical Sciences & Research, she has led public health initiatives in the areas of HIV, preventive pediatrics, child survival & health world-wide.
Moderator
Mr. Suchith Abeyewickreme
Ethics Education Programme Coordinator
Arigatou International Geneva
Forum
After the webinar we invite you to share your reflections on the forum below.
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Toolbox
Here you will find several resources that you can use with children aged 4 to 18 in intercultural and interfaith contexts, to support you creating safe, participatory and context-sensitive learning opportunities supported by our Ethics Education Transformative Pedagogy.
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