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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
