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Character Education
Cultivating good character is an important part of a child's education at home, at school and in the community. Many UPF chapters offer lessons in classrooms or train teachers and administrators in character education or peace education.
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Character Education
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Character Educaton Receives Great Response In Chicago
- Monday, August 4, 2008
Chicago, USA - The theme and title of the National Convocation of the American Clergy Leadership Conference, held in Chicago from May 29-31, was “ Rebuild the Family, Restore the Community, Renew the Nation and the World.” Character education was introduced as an innovative way to address these concerns. Well-attended, the closing banquet and awards ceremony brought together over 400 local ministers.
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Character Education
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Book Review: "Helping Kids Who Are Good at Being Bad," by José Rosado
- Monday, August 4, 2008
José Rosado, author of Being Good at Being Bad, grew up in “rat- and roach-infested” projects on the south side of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. He was the son of an alcoholic father, yet his early childhood years were blissfully unconscious of the pressures his environment placed on him.
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Promoting Character Education in St. Vincent
- Sunday, August 3, 2008
A five-day camp promoting character education was held in Barrouallie from July 30–August 3 at the Barrouallie Multi-Purpose Academy.
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Working with the Thursday Group in Jamaica
- Wednesday, July 30, 2008
On my last full day in Jamaica, I was chatting with a lady on the bus. She asked how we were enjoying our stay and was curious to know if we’d gotten to Negril and Montego Bay to enjoy the beaches. When I explained that we really were in Jamaica to teach character education, she said, “Welcome, welcome, welcome to Jamaica!”
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Character Education
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Promoting Character in Trinidad and Tobago
- Sunday, July 27, 2008
Our team was sent to Trinidad and Tobago for our character education internship with the Universal Peace Federation. We were to teach character education at St. Joseph’s Primary School and Sealots Community School July 2-27, 2008.
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Report on SUNY Cortland Charater Education Institute
- Wednesday, July 2, 2008
What follows is my report on the Summer Institute for Character Education at the State University of New York in Cortland June 30 to July 2, 2008. I highlight the key points of each session as I understand and remember them. I also include a book list and a brief reflection.
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Character Education
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Interns Learn to Teach Character Education Curriculum
- Friday, June 20, 2008
In 2007, the Universal Peace Federation launched its Peer Counselor Intern program. A total of thirty college students went out to seven countries and gave character education lessons in schools and communities. The program is expanding to include twenty countries in 2008, and a new group of interns are preparing to head out during the summer months.
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NextGen Interns in Thailand
- Friday, June 20, 2008
Team Thailand stayed in the country the work began and ended. Interns Hannah Boyd, Jacob Shaw, and Justin Frisk worked in Songkla in the south of Thailand where they taught character education at an orphanage for children who had lost their parents or been displaced by war. The orphanage is in a safe area away from the conflict.
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NextGen Interns Promote Character Education in Chennai
- Friday, June 20, 2008
Interns Lily Jones and Joyce Payer, the interns of Team India, were thrilled upon arrival in the Indian city of Chennai The whole plane had been populated with Indian men, and, as three white women, they felt they stood out quite a bit. However, on the plane and in country, they felt a strong sense of safety, because they found that women were treated with a great deal of respect.
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NextGen Interns Promote Character Education in Sri Lanka
- Friday, June 20, 2008
Interns Elysa Thalheimer, Tesia Bobrycki, and Audrey Martin were struck by the war-like aspects of Sri Lanka. Everywhere they went, they saw officers with rifles stopping cars and checking everything. They learned that if you are Tamil, it is especially difficult. Most Tamil students yearn for peace, but they don't know how it will come about. The idea of a peace sports festival inspired them, as did meeting their first Westerners. The interns felt the impact of war on society in a way they had never felt before.
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NextGen Interns Promote Character Education in Nepal
- Friday, June 20, 2008
Team Nepal, consisting of Laura Hinkle, Teddy Sylte, and Rita Asaoka, discovered as they left teeming Kathmandu that scenery in Nepal was "soooooo beautiful!" It was full of green mountains and valleys and fresh with unspoiled air. The interns did a lot of teaching in classrooms at four different schools, all of which begged them to return. They also went to a school for orphans that was built by a sister organization, The International Relief Friendship Foundation, and taught character education lessons on teamwork and gratitude and did a cleaning service project.
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NextGen Interns Promote Character Bangladesh
- Friday, June 20, 2008
Interns Ana Reid, Manae Pisano, and Heung Kook Stephens were assigned to Bangladesh. They conducted an eight-day workshop with Dhaka University students.
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