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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Present situation
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.”
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Present situation
• For the last 200-years, many individuals
have criticized the form public schooling
has taken.
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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".
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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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Transdisciplinarity
(H. Koizumi)
Emergence of a New Field
Direction of Evolution
(time)
Trans-disciplinary Vector
Discipline 5
Discipline n
Discipline 4
Discipline 1
Discipline 2
Discipline 3
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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
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Our Vision
Education by all for the wellbeing 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
and
to take more initiatives to
implement change for their wellbeing.
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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 Children
El 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.
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Our Board
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Marwan Awartani
Amir Dossal
Corinne Evens
Raymond Georis
Mary Grey
Daniel Kropf
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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: +972 2 296 7967
E-mail mawartani@palnet.org
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