September 2016

THE FIRST MODULE OF TRAINING OF
TRAINERS – GLOBAL ETHIC AT SCHOOL

The implementation of now already three-year project ''Global Ethic at School'' by TPO Foundation continues this year and one of the activities is education and training of the future educators in the field of Global Ethic. After the application process and selection 15 teachers have been selected who attended Global Ethic workshops and they are: Sanela Mesihović, Vanja Ivković, Munevera Rahmanović-Hrbat, Amela Petričević, Mirjana Krešić, Izet Numanović, Mirza Jahić, Sead Gazibegović, Sabahudin Ćeman, Miroslav Bagara, Selvira Mašnić, Muhamed Omazić, Alma Ahmethodžić, Semir Salihović and Amira Kadrispahić.
Professor Mirjana Mavrak from the Faculty of Philosophy at University of Sarajevo delivered the lecture and exercises in andragogy on the first day. Differences in education of adults and children were processed as well as appliance of various methodologies in education of adults. The afternoon hours were booked for diverse methods of learning at children and Monja Šuta – Hibert was talking about it with the participants.
The second day was dedicated to human rights and their perception from various points of view. Professor Spahija Kozlić from Faculty of Philosophy in Zenica was speaking about human rights and philosophy of justice based on the examples of grat philosophers such as Aristotle and Plato while Professor Zilka Spahić – Šiljak was speaking about it from gender perspective. Fr. Mile Babić talked about basic differences of secularism, laicism and religious structure of a society, i.e. state. In the second part of the day Alen Kristić presented human rights from the standpoints of three religions: Islam, Christianity and Judaism.

Social justice in religious and secular discourse was scheduled for the last day. Emina Abrahamsdotter provided the participants with the interpretation of this phenomenon on several levels and giving examples from American and European tradition. The discussion with participants followed who gave the examples of diverse social (in)justice such as veterans' benefits, children's rights to education, health protection and rights of minorities. Alen Kristić presented the fundamental concepts of social justice in three monotheistic religions.

During this educational programme the participants had an opportunity to visit and meet with various aspects of B&H heritage which is conserved in Franciscan monastery in Visoko. They visited the library which counts 65 000 books and 20 000 magazines, lapidarium, ethnological museum and the church and they were introduced with the history and making of these impressive collections. The next educational cycle is scheduled for December, 2016 when the new set of themes will be discussed.