An interview was conducted with Mrs. Mary Wanjiru Kangethe who is Assistant Director of Education in the Ministry of Education Science and Technology in Kenya. She spoke of the Ministry of Education and Science’s implementation of Learning to Live Together Programme in schools in Kenya, the aims and experiences.
A workshop on the Learning to Live Together manual was organized from 26 to 30 June 2013, in the Centre San Antonio of the city of Tadó, in Colombia. The workshop was titled “Building cultures of peace in the family and facing the ethical challenges of children living in extreme poverty”.
A facilitator training workshop on the Learning to Live Together (LTLT) programme was hosted by our partner Shanti Ashram from Coimbatore, India on 27 – 30 June. The workshop brought together 30 young volunteers and teachers from 14 institutions, coming from different educational backgrounds and from Christian, Hindu and Muslim religious communities. While majority of the participants were from Coimbatore, there were also participants from several other cities in India including Chennai, Kochi and Delhi.
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This time Stories from the Field brings the voice of Marlene Silbert, former Education Director of the Cape Town Holocaust Center and official Trained Trainer of the Learning to Live Together Program. Marlene shares how the manual has been used in several programs and thematics in Cape Town ranging from human rights, interfaith and intercultural twining and exchange, and religious diversity. Marlene also shares with us the voices of some of the people who have been involved, including teachers and children, and the impact the programs have had on them.
By Mrs Jane Baron-Rechtman, Professor of World Religions and Bio-ethics at the Masters School in Dobbs Ferry, NY and Member of the Interfaith Council on Ethics Education for Children “I had a professor once who used to say there are two things you should read every day: the Bible and the New York Times. His
It is interesting for me to realize the interconnectedness of the notions ‘ethics’ and ‘interfaith dialogue’; That is, both of them more or less are related to a word: relationships. According to my understanding, I support the explanation on ‘ethics’ provided on the Learning to Live Together Manual of Arigatou International: “how one chooses to
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The Learning to Live Together Programme (LTLT) was first introduced to Amalina Islamic School during a facilitator-training workshop conducted in Indonesia by GNRC South Asia and Arigatou International in partnership with UNESCO National Commission Indonesia in 2012 and with the help of Ms. Wati Wardani (participant in regional LTLT workshop in Sri Lanka). Pembangunan Jaya
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This time Voices of children and youth features Matias Alejandro Flores Mejía from El Salvador. He talks about his experience with the GNRC in El Salvador with the Learning to Live Together Programme and how it helped him grow and understand more about himself.
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Enseignement de l’éthique Communauté de pratique en ligne La Communauté de pratique d’enseignement de l’éthique en ligne est une plate-forme pour que les animateurs et les formateurs qui utilisent les programmes d’enseignement de l’éthique puissent se connecter, communiquer, collaborer et apprendre. L’objectif à long terme de cette plate-forme est de créer une communauté de pratique
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Solidarity: An ethical imperative for advancing the role of education in migrant and refugee inclusion in Europe REGISTER NOW Webinars The project engages educators working with children from migrant, refugee and host communities from across Europe in a series of three online webinars to create dialogue, awareness and capacity on the transformative role of education
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Peace Education: A necessity in Schools, Families and Communities Sometimes, I wonder about the value of programs teaching for peaceful living in violent and conflict situations and ask myself whether programs such as Learning to Live Together and others become more of a luxury or a privilege in these situations. This question is not only