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Living Values Books Receive Teachers' Choice AwardThe Living Values books offer a variety of experiential activities for teachers and parents to help them teach children and young adults to develop twelve critical social values.
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Living Values Education
for Children and Young Adults Around the World
Welcome
Educators involved in Living Values Education in more than 60 countries, welcome you to the website of the Association for Living Values Education International (ALIVE). We invite you to join us in this global endeavor to help students explore and develop positive values and move toward their potential. We hope you will join us in creating caring, respectful environments where students feel safe, want to learn, and live their values.
Young people around the world are increasingly affected by violence, social problems, and a lack of respect for each other and the world around them. Educators in many countries are impacted by greater challenges and pressures.
The Living Values Education Program is effective in decreasing violence and bullying, and in creating safe, caring school climates which are conducive to quality learning. Living Values Education (LVE) is a way of conceptualizing education that promotes the development of values-based learning communities and places the search for meaning and purpose at the heart of education. LVE emphasizes the worth and integrity of each person involved in the provision of education, in the home, school and community. In fostefring quality education, LVE supports the overall development of the individual and a culture of positive values in each society and throughout the world, believing that education is a purposeful activity designed to help humanity flourish.
ALIVE, ALIVE Associates and LVE Focal Points Around the World Provide:
- Professional development courses, seminars and workshops for teachers and others involved in the provision of education.
Lebanon - These second grade girls shared
their experiences with conflict resolution
- Classroom teaching materials and other educational resources, in particular an award-winning series of five books, Living Values Education Series, containing practical values activities and a range of methods for use by educators, facilitators, parents and caregivers to help children and young adults to explore and develop twelve widely-shared human values. There are also resource books for children in difficult circumstances (street children), youth in need of drug rehabilitation, and children affected by war. The approach and lesson content are experiential, participatory and flexible, allowing – and encouraging – the materials to be adapted and supplemented according to varying cultural, social and other circumstances. The approach and materials may also be used systematically, and in alignment with the ten principles of The Living Values Education Approach, as the Living Values Education Program.
- Consultation to government bodies, organizations, schools, teachers and parents on the creation of values-based learning environments and the teaching of values.
- Provides this international website for Living Values Education. You may sign up for our newsletter as well as download selected materials, free of charge.
International News and Success Stories
ALIVE Website: Download Songs from the LVAC 3-7 Book Free!
Angola: The Plight of Witch-Accused Children
Brazil: A New Book Featuring LVE Research and Educational Practices in Schools
Dominican Republic: Street Children Organizations, Public School Teachers and Ministry of Education Officials Attend LVE Workshops
Germany: Teens Win a “No Chance for Hatred” Prize!
Haiti: Collaborative Effort Brings LVE to Port-au-Prince
Malaysia: LVE Country-wide for Preschool Teachers at Unity Kindergartens
Mauritius: Early Childhood and Parenting Workshops in Mauritius
Thailand: LVE Used to Enhance Emotional Intelligence Development
United Kingdom: Listen to an Australian ABC National Radio interview with the U.K.’s Dr. Neil Hawkes
International Calendar of Training Events
- Australia: 2 – 10 May 2010
Living Values Heart Centre Retreat - Kuwait: 23 Jan, 6 and 20 Feb 2010
Values-Based Parenting Program - USA: 4, 11, 18, 25 February 2010
Create Peace and Respect in Your Classroom - USA: 27 February, 2010
LVE Workshop - USA: 8 – 9 May 2010
LVE Workshop - USA: 30 July – 1 August, 2010
LVE Workshop - USA: 30 July – 2 August, 2010
LVE TTT Seminar