Within the project of TPO Foundation, “A Global Ethic in a School: Integrating a Global Ethic into Educational Structures and Processes in Bosnia-Herzegovina”, done with the partnership of The Global Ethic Foundation from Tübingen, a professional team of TPO Foundation Sarajevo – Alen Kristic i Sedzida Hadzic – held the first training of teachers and pedagogues of Tuzla Canton in Tuzla on Saturday and Sunday on November 29 and 30, 2014.
This training represents a special form of educational theory with the clear pragmatic courses of action in the real life. The training was attended by 21 teachers mainly in the field of social sciences and humanities subjects, one member from the Ministry of Education, Science, Culture and Sports, an adviser for education of the Pedagogical Institute TK Tuzla Izet Numanovic, and a project assistant of TPO Foundation Ivana Krstanovic.
Alen Kristic introduced teachers with the notion of a global ethic and gave lectures on the theme “A Global Ethic: Rules of the Globalized World”, “A Global Ethic as a Pedagogical Project”, “A Global Ethic – Jewish, Christian, Islamic and Philosophical Foundation”, “A Global Ethic and Religion Dialogue”, “A Global Ethic in BiH – Contextualization and Application” and “A Global Ethic in Our School: Perspectives, Possibilities, Examples”. After her lecture, “Potential Applications and Contextualization of Principles and Values ​​of a Global Ethic in Bh Society”, Sedzida Hadzic began with a demonstration of double lessons. The first double lesson functions as an introduction to the topic and deals with the basics of world religions and the concept of a global ethic. Another double lesson focuses on recognized and personal perceptions of values ​​and considers values in the writings of the world’s religions. The third double lesson deals with the particular conception of the common ethic, and the participants are introduced to the “Project A Global Ethic”. The fourth double lesson reflects the ethic drawn up in the context of current religious and social issues. Emphasis is placed on the problem set of “Terrorism – Christianity – Islam” and the Bible and the Qur’an. After each double lesson was done, double conclusion and review of all the dimensions of the implementation of the particular double lesson was done.
According to Izet Numanovic, the value of educational content primarily is the thesis that a man is the measure of all things, a man whoever he/she is, a man wherever he/she is from, a man regardless of the genealogy of his/her origin, a man as worldly sacred thing/being whose values ​​must be nurtured, whose differences must be taken into account in different life situations, a man as a human being to whom must be offered help, if not for the sake of the people of today, then for the sake of the future generations who will build their good on the results of values that we establish. An advisor for education, Izet Numanovic, further points out that those are elements which great teachers in a very didactic and methodical rhythm, in phases and stages of the whole day’s work, were able to present, and we need to understand the ethic as a repository of human possibilities to make the world a better place.
The main aim of this project is to introduce teachers and pedagogues of secondary schools to a global ethic and qualify them that they mediate principles and values of a global ethic to their students in a professional and systematic way. Afterwards, a program director of TPO Foundation Zilka Spahic Siljak, project coordinator Monja Suta-Hibert and minister of the Ministry of Education, Science, Culture and Sport of Tuzla Canton Mirsad Kunic, who completely approved this project, also joined the training. The training was organized with the approval of the Ministry of Education, Science, Culture and Sport of Tuzla Canton, and the Pedagogical Institute of Tuzla Canton on the recommendation of the minister Mirsad Kunic was also included. Participants received certificates for the successful completion of the two-day training – teaching unit “A Global Ethic in School”.
