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Toolbox

Welcome to the Toolbox

Welcome to the Ethics Education 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.

Ethics Education Framework

It describes the way and required elements for designing, planning and delivering pedagogical programs to ensure quality and transformative learning experiences for children.

It is built on learning opportunities and practices that allow spiritual nurturing and ethical reflections which foster, above all, interconnectedness, and lead to critical thinking, the development of imagination, critical consciousness and intercultural and interfaith learning.

It aims to provide the opportunity for children to take ownership of their learning process and act collectively to achieve common goals and address ethical challenges, building on their individual and collective strengths.

Learning to Live Together

The Ethics Education for Intercultural and Interfaith learning manual affirms the importance to nurture ethical values and spirituality in children that will help them strengthen their identity and critical thinking, ability to make well-grounded decisions, respect, appreciate and work with people of other cultures and religions, and foster their individual and collective responsibilities in a global community.

It was developed for children aged 12 to 18 and launched in 2008, since then it has been implemented in more than 40 countries in formal and non-formal education settings, and has reached more than 410.000 children in diverse religious and cultural backgrounds.

Learning to Play together

The Learning to Play Together is a good practice booklet that emerged from the Learning to Live Together manual implementation and is a tool for those interested in using games and sports to promote mutual understanding and respect as well as fostering ethical values in children through play, critical reflections, collaboration and action.

Learning to Live Together: An Activity Booklet for Children during the Covid-19 Pandemic

This booklet suggests a variety of simple, fun, educational activities for families and children to strengthen bonds, foster their sense of solidarity, nurture children’s spirituality and provide learning opportunities for them to reflect on ethical challenges and demands during and after the pandemic.

It was developed based on the activities proposed by the Learning to Live Together Programme for children aged 4 to 18 and contains 35 activities organised by age.

Ethics Education Activities for Educators

The current situation in the world with the COVID-19 pandemic has forced 1.2 billion children out of school and into remote learning modalities. Educators from all around the world have been called to quickly adapt to distance learning modalities to continue supporting children’s learning and well-being during this period.

This document suggests five educational activities for children that can be implemented by educators in remote learning contexts or in the classroom with the students at educators’ own pace.

Mindfulness for Children

This video gives a basic introduction to mindfulness, how to practice mindfulness and considerations for encouraging mindfuless practice among children. The video ends with a couple of examples of mindfulness exercise you can practice yourself and facilitate for children.

How to Protect Children and youth in the digital World

Video developed by Arigatou International targeting children and educators on how children can protect themselves online and how local communities can create protective environments and actions to protect children from online sexual abuse and exploitation, in social media, cyberbullying, etc.

Resources from Educators

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