Online Course for Teachers
Ethical Challenges during COVID-19 & implications for Children and Youth (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 Webinar
Update: The live webinar was already held on the 10th June, 2020 with the active participation of many course participants. You are invite to look at its recording and the presentations included below and contribute to the forum discussion.
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.
Interactive Webinar Programme:
- Welcome and Introductions: (10mins)
- Ethical Challenges in our communities during the Covid-19 pandemic : (30 mins)
- Panel Discussion: ( 32mins = 8mins/speaker)
- Q&A and online discussion: ( 25 mins )
- Breakout rooms to explore particular questions: 25 minutes
- Sharing in larger group: 25 minutes
- Closing ( 5mins )
As you see in the programme this webinar will be interactive. We look forward to your active participation by sharing your experiences, by asking questions, by engaging with the panelists and by being active in the breakout groups with a smaller number of participants.
For this webinar we were joined by …
Panelists
Dr. Angeliki Aroni
Head of the Independent Department for the Coordination & Monitoring of the Refugee Education of the Ministry of Education & Religious Affairs, Greece
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Dr Angeliki Aroni is the Head of the Independent Department for the Coordination and Monitoring of Refugee Education at the Ministry of Education and Religious Affairs of Greece. A Physical Education Teacher with an MSc and a PhD in Social Psychology, she worked in intercultural schools in Athens for 18 years before joining the Ministry in 2016 with the onset of the refugee crisis. Dr Aroni is a trainer on the Learning to Live Together Programme and her experience with children implementing the Arigatou International Programme in multicultural contexts led to the writing of the Good Practice: “Learning to Play Together”. She is an expert of the European Commission for Refugee Education and a Teacher Trainer on Human Rights Education and Education for Democratic Citizenship. Since March 2013, Dr Aroni has been the coordinator for Greece for the project ‘Living Democracy’ organised by the International Projects in Education of the University of Zurich and the Council of Europe.
Prof. Anantanand Rambachan
Professor of Religion, Philosophy and Asian Studies at Saint Olaf College, Minnesota, USA
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Professor of Religion, St. Olaf College, and Visiting Professor, Academy for the Study of World Religions, University of Hamburg.
Professor Rambachan is a prolific writer and author of several books including Accomplishing the Accomplished: The Vedas as a Source of Valid Knowledge in Shankara; The Limits of Scripture: Vivekananda’s Reinterpretation of the Authority of the Vedas and Essays in Hindu Theology. He has been involved in the field of interreligious relations and dialogue for over 25 years.
In 2008, at the invitation of the Archbishop of Canterbury, he delivered the distinguished Lambeth Interfaith Lecture. He also led the first two White House Celebrations of the Hindu Festival of Diwali in 2003 and 2004. He currently participates as a Hindu theologian in the Ethics in Action dialogues at the Pontifical Academy of Sciences. He is a member of the International Consortium on Nurturing Values and Spirituality in Early Childhood for the Prevention of Violence convened by Arigatou International.
Prof. Amr Abdallah
Amr Abdalla is an 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. Yumiko Yokozeki
Director, UNESCO Institute for Capacity-Building in Africa
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Yumiko Yokozeki (PhD) is a specialist in education. She started her career as science/mathematics teacher in Kenya and Zimbabwe. Then she joined UNICEF as an education officer, and moved to JICA where she played a leading role in Japan’s educational cooperation. After 17 years with JICA, she moved back toUNICEF to work as Education Chief in two Africa Regional Offices for Eastern and Southern Africa, and Western and Central Africa. Since 2015, she has been the Director of UNESCO IICBA, based in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. While her specialization remains in Africa, she has working experiences in Asia/Pacific, South Asia, Middle East/North Africa, and Latin America. She has M.Ed. from Harvard Graduate School of Education and Ph.D. from Institute of Education, University of London.
Moderator
Mrs. Maria Lucia Uribe
Director, Arigatou International Geneva
View the recorded webinar …
Presentation Dr. Yumiko Yokozeki
Presentation Dr. Angeliki Aroni
Presentation Prof. Amr Abdalla
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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