March 2015

PROJECT “A GLOBAL ETHIC IN SCHOOL”: THE THIRD TRAINING OF TEACHERS IN CANTON SARAJEVO

After the workshop done in Sarajevo on March 21 and 22, 2015, the training of teachers within the project “A Global Ethic in a School: Integrating a Global Ethic into Educational Structures and Processes in Bosnia-Herzegovina”, done with the partnership of The Global Ethic Foundation from Tübingen, had been held again in Sarajevo in Hotel Hollywood on Saturday and Sunday on March 28 and 29, 2015. Alen Kristic, Monja Suta-Hibert and Ivana Krstanovic – a professional team of TPO

Foundation Sarajevo – presented a project of a global ethic to teachers of secondary schools and worked on the demonstration of double lessons. The training was attended by 19 teachers and an adviser for education of the Educational-Pedagogical Institute of Sarajevo Azemina Bogdanovic. In the second day, Mr. Sci. Sedzida Hadzic gave lecture on the theme “The Dimensions of Learning about a Global Ethic” and looked back on the experience from the previous trainings.

Alen Kristic introduced teachers with the concept of a global ethic, which is developing in several European countries, and whose founder is a Catholic theologian Hans Küng, who claims that there is no survival without a global ethic and requires a coalition of believers and non-believers. An alliance of believers and non-believers is possible in connection with the building of a better world based on shared values because fundamental ethical values common to the world religions are precisely the values advocated by all

the great philosophical traditions of the worldhumanistic orientation. The idea of a global ethic does not advocate neither syncretism nor the domination of one religion over another, nor creation of a new unique global dimension of religion, but consciously-responsible cooperation of believers of different religions, including non-believers, in terms of building a better world, that emerges and allows deeper roots in their own religious tradition.

Kristic gave lectures on the following themes: "A Global Ethic: Rules of the Globalized World", "A Global Ethic - Jewish, Christian, Islamic and Philosophical Foundation", "A Global Ethic in BiH – Contextualization and Application", and "A Global Ethic and Religion Dialogue with Reference to Contemporary Issues". Monja Suta-Hibert

introduced us with lectures on the theme "A Global Ethic as a Pedagogical Project" and worked on the demonstration of four double lessons. After each double lesson was done, double conclusion and review of all the dimensions of the implementation of the particular double lesson was done.

The main aim of this project is to introduce teachers of secondary schools to a global ethic and qualify them that they mediate principles and values of a global ethic to their students in a professional and systematic way. The training was organized with the approval of the Ministry of Education, Science and Youth of Canton Sarajevo, and the Educational-

PedagogicalInstitute of Canton Sarajevo on the recommendation of the minister Abid Kunic, an assistant of the cantonal minister for preschool, elementary and secondary school. Participants received certificates for the successfull completion of the two-day training – teaching unit "Global Ethic in School".