Personal Details

26-15 Jamwon-dong
Seocho-ku, Seoul 137-030, South Korea
Tel:  82-2-515 5409    |    Fax:  82-2-515 5439
E-mail: bkseoul@hotmail.com 

Ruth Liddle is an educator with more than 17 years experience teaching in schools in UK and overseas. Ruth moved to South Korea in July 1998, and currently works as an English language teacher in the Sogang University institute for foreign language education in Seoul.
 

Professional Teaching Experience
 

In Malaysia, Ruth worked as an elementary teacher in a newly built international school in Kuala Lumpur. She played an active part in curriculum development in an environment committed to meeting the needs of the whole child. She was science coordinator and later became values coordinator. For the last two years she held the post of team leader for the upper elementary classes.

As an educator in Singapore, Ruth taught 5th grade at the American School. She was mathematics coordinator for the elementary school 1993-94. At Inlingua School of Languages, Ruth taught English to expatriate adults and children and English as a Second Language to Singaporean school students.

In England Ruth worked with children with very different life experiences, first in a rural middle school and later in a progressive inner city school.
 

Ruth led workshops on teaching values at the South East Asia Teacher and Counsellor’s Conference (SEATCCO) in 1995 and 1997.  In August 1996, Ruth was one of 20 global educators who met with UNICEF in New York to discuss and develop strategies to better support values-based education for all.  The outcome was Living Values: An Educational Initiative which later developed into Living Values Education now in use in more than 60 countries. In August 1997 and 2000, Ruth was a co-facilitator for the Living Values “Train the Trainers” international residential training programme in Oxford, UK.
 

In August 1998, Ruth worked with UNICEF, Korea on a global education training programme for government school teachers in Seoul. 
 

In October 1999, Ruth led a Living Values workshop at the international conference for NGO’s held in Seoul. 
 

Commencing September 2000, Ruth has been facilitating implementation of Living Values Education at Seoul International School, Songnam, South Korea. The school adopted LVE to support existing program outcomes in Health and Social Studies in the elementary school, and introduction of Living Values at high school level through a new 9th grade class.
 

October 3-6, 2000, Ruth led Living Values Education training for 30 educators at Ministry of Education and Training, Hanoi, Vietnam. 
 

On October 27, 2000 Ruth led a workshop introducing Living Values Education to American School teachers at the annual KORCOS-DODDS 2000 Conference in Seoul. 
 

Ruth currently co-ordinates activities for Brahma Kumaris in South Korea. For the past six years, through her association with Brahma Kumaris, Ruth has also been involved in planning and facilitating programmes designed to empower individuals through positive thinking, self-awareness and the practice of Raja Yoga meditation. 
 

Ruth was a co-facilitator for international youth retreats held at Brahma Kumaris headquarters in Rajasthan in December 1997, 1998 and 2000.