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The Universal Education Foundation

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Issue

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

being

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Present situation:Our current working

definition of well-being

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

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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.

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In 1972 UNESCO’s commission report

“Learning to Be” asserted that:

“Education should contribute to every person’s complete development – mind and body, intelligence, sensitivity, aesthetic appreciation and spirituality.”

Present situation

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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

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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

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Trans-disciplinary Vector

Discipline n

Discipline 2

Discipline 1

Discipline 3

Discipline 4

Discipline 5

Emergence of a New Field

Direction of Evolution(time)

Transdisciplinarity(H. Koizumi)

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Present situationInsights: Inner and Outer diversitySelf organization (space, time &

diversity)Education as a health delivery system

with the support of Media and ICTWe are all responsibleChildren can help usRecognising rather than awarding

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Our Vision

Education by all for the well-being of children

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Our Values

Respect

Integrity

Caring

Learning by experiences

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Our Purpose

We seek to inspire people to listen more to children and young people

andto take more initiatives to implement change for their well-being.

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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

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Success factors

Engaging children

Interactive web sites

Recognising initiatives

Multi Sectorial trans-diciplinary forums

Co-creative partnerships

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Activities

Voices of the ChildrenEl Ham Program

Learning for Well Being Forums

(to be piloted first in Jordan & Palestine)

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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

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Our Board

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

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Universal Education Foundation • Education by All for the Well-Being of Children

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.orgFor more information, please contact:

Marwan Awartani, Secretary General

Telephone: +972 2 296 7967

E-mail mawartani@palnet.org