Ethics and Values

Members

• Sr. Mary Elena Tuazon – St. Paul University at San Miguel, Philippines
• Dr. (Sr.) Celene Joseph – St. Thomas College of Teacher Education, India
• Dr. Ruth Firer – Hewbrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
• Dr. Prasanth Mathew – Bethlehem Educational Research Foundation, India
• Dr. Judith Johnson – International Educational Initiatives, Japan

Coordinators:

Preamble

Spirituality is the foundation of all education.

• Teach universal virtues in our milieu of different religions, beliefs and cultural contexts
• Integrate virtues in the teaching of all disciplines in our respective institutions

Approaches and Strategies

• Tintegrative approach of mind, heart and hands
• student-centered active learning
• reflection
• the arts
• quotations (religious, philosophical)
• thinking skills

Action Plan

• identify spiritual themes related to scientific and cultural concepts, history, literature, and so on in our respective curricula
• exchange current and future teaching materials and ideas for developing new materials
• develop a program that will train education majors to incorporate universal virtues in lessons
• share our materials with others and make them available through links on different websites