P1252428696BCjKd

1
The Universal Education Foundation
2

• Issue
• How learning environments of children and young
  people can be more conducive to their well being

3
(No Transcript)
4
Present situationOur current working definition
of well-being

• Well being is the realization of one's physical,
  emotional, mental, social and spiritual
  potential.

5
Present situation

• The WHO defines health as
• A state of complete physical, mental and
  social well being and not merely the absence of
  disease and infirmity.

6
In 1972 UNESCOs commission report Learning to
Be asserted that
Present situation

• Education should contribute to every persons
  complete development mind and body,
  intelligence, sensitivity, aesthetic appreciation
  and spirituality.

7
Present situation

• For the last 200-years, many individuals have
  criticized the form public schooling has taken.
• Johann Pestalozzi, Thoreau, Emerson, Alcott,
  Francis Parker, John Dewey, Maria Montessori and
  Rudolf Steiner, among others, "all insisted that
  education should be understood as the art of
  cultivating the moral, emotional, physical,
  psychological and spiritual dimensions of the
  developing child".
• http//www.infed.org/biblio/holisticeducation.htm

8
Present situation

• The UNESCO Task Force put forward the idea that
  education throughout life is based upon four
  pillars
• Learning to know
• Learning to do
• Learning to live
  together
• Learning to be

9
Transdisciplinarity
(H. Koizumi)
10
Present situation

• Insights
• Inner and Outer diversity
• Self organization (space, time diversity)
• Education as a health delivery system with the
  support of Media and ICT
• We are all responsible
• Children can help us
• Recognising rather than awarding

11
Our Vision

• Education by all for the well-being of children

12
Our Values

• Respect
• Integrity
• Caring
• Learning by experiences

13
Our Purpose

• We seek to inspire people to listen more to
  children and young people
• and
• to take more initiatives to implement change for
  their well-being.

14
OUR GOALS

• Voices of girls and boys are heard
• Health and education are partners for their
  well-being
• Systemic change, ICTs and media contributions
• Schools focused on well-being

15
Success factors

• Engaging children
• Interactive web sites
• Recognising initiatives
• Multi Sectorial trans-diciplinary forums
• Co-creative partnerships

16
ActivitiesVoices of the ChildrenEl Ham
ProgramLearning for Well Being Forums(to be
piloted first in Jordan Palestine)

17

• Our current partners are
• Academy for Educational Development (Washington),
  
• Education Development Centre (Boston),
• European Institute of Education and Social Policy
  (Paris),
• International Partnership Network (London),
• Madariaga Foundation (Brussels),
• World Education (Boston),
• The United Nations ICT Task Force (New York),
• United Nations Fund for International
  Partnerships.
• www.uef-eba.org

18
Our Board

• Marwan Awartani
• Amir Dossal
• Corinne Evens
• Raymond Georis
• Mary Grey
• Daniel Kropf

19
(No Transcript)
20
The Universal Education Foundation Education by
all for the well-being of children UEF is a
non-profit organization registered in the
Netherlands. Its founders come from Asia, Europe,
the Middle East and the United States. The
secretariat is in Ramallah and there are
operational offices in Boston and Paris.
Website www.uef-eba.org For more information,
please contact Marwan Awartani, Secretary
General Telephone [phone] E-mail
mawartani_at_palnet.org
Universal Education Foundation Education by All
for the Well-Being of Children