The second day of our new Foundation course with a shift of focus to values. We first ran this as a one day workshop last April as part of our school management programme and subsequent work and discussions with the schools showed just how important the workshop was. Originally catalysed by Sujeev Shakya's best selling book "Unleashing Nepal" in which he emphasised how Nepali youth had lost many of the country's traditional values we decided to give the subject some prominence in our programme.
Today was all about the teachers understanding values and their influence on our personal behaviour and we conducted a number of activities to help delegates think about their own values and behaviour. From this we examined the issue of organisational values in a school and how this might affect student-teacher relationships.
Tomorrow we use the concepts from today in a new technique V4C (Values For Children) in which teachers will learn how to run practical classroom sessions which stimulate children of all ages to discuss respect, discipline, freedom, cooperation, friendship, achievement, learning, and any other value important to the school.
We must acknowledge the assistance we were given by SAPERE in being trained in their Philosophy For Children process and the flexibility they showed us in using their materials and tools.
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