Day 3 of the Foundation course and a continuing focus on values with a new technique being introduced which is 100% child centred. Based on the well known P4C process we have adapted some elements so that Nepali teachers can develop a core set of values for their school amongst children AND staff.
We have been trained in the UK on SAPERE courses and are using the 10-step process of Jason Buckley (The Philosophy Man) who kindly provided us with lots and lots of his booklets for our training last April. The process uses stimuli to initiate a group discussion (on values) which can commonly include pictures, objects and stories.
Our Foundation course dedicates two full days to V4C and works on the three areas of stimuli, 10 steps, values. Today Babita ran two sessions using pictures as stimuli with the course split into one half as students and one half as observers. The session itself and the resulting feedback were both very lively as this type of discussive facilitated process is very new to Nepal and a far cry from sitting in silence and copying stuff from the blackboard. In the afternoon it was the turn of the teachers to have a go and two more full sessions were run using picture stimuli with full debrief reviews held afterwards.
The teachers have gone home very excited with homework to find and bring in an object that could be used as a stimulus, goodness knows what we will get! So, tomorrow, two sessions plus practice using object stimuli, then two sessions plus practice using stories as stimuli. Watch this space for a full report.
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