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Let’s Start Now – Values in action can change the world

Let’s Start Now – Values in action can change the world

Community, Education, Individual, Organisational, World Values Day 2020

By Charles Fowler One thing that’s become clear from our experience of the Covid crisis is that we must find a way to reach across the bitter divisions that divide so many of us around the world. Memories of those heart-warming experiences in the early days of the...
Mindful cooking: how to introduce values to children during a pandemic

Mindful cooking: how to introduce values to children during a pandemic

Community, Education, World Values Day 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic has shifted everyone’s needs and made us consider what we really ‘value.’ Now, more than ever, as we assess what is fundamentally important to us, we have an opportunity to explain values to our children and how ‘values literacy’ supports their...
Why Compassion Begins at Home

Why Compassion Begins at Home

Education, Individual, World Values Day 2020

Credit: Pexels   From people exchanging harsh words online to even hurting each other in public, it goes without saying that the world is becoming a less kind place to live in by the day. With today’s current events, it isn’t surprising that we found...
How does Values Literacy Enhance Young People’s Life Proficiency? By Rosemary Dewan

How does Values Literacy Enhance Young People’s Life Proficiency? By Rosemary Dewan

Education, World Values Day 2017

“Values literacy” is about understanding a wide spectrum of values and being able to choose and apply appropriate values within different contexts in real-life situations. We can learn to use values to think, make choices and behave in ways that help us to live...
Which Values Are Required for Development? By Priscilla Bamfo

Which Values Are Required for Development? By Priscilla Bamfo

Education, World Values Day 2017

Generally in Africa, and more specifically in Ghana, we list a number of causal factors for our appalling rate of economic, social and personal development. One of such factors is colonisation; however, after 60 years of independence, we haven’t significantly...
Development of Good Character Matters More than Passing Exams, By Anthony Seldon

Development of Good Character Matters More than Passing Exams, By Anthony Seldon

Education, World Values Day 2017

The current focus in our school system is a single-minded drive to improve educational attainment. Yet education is much more than a mechanistic process, which achieves its highest state with the maximisation of academic performance.  Exam success is a necessary but...