June 2015

PROJECT A GLOBAL ETHIC IN SCHOOL: THE FIFTH TRAINING OF TEACHERS OF CANTON SARAJEVO

The fifth training of teachers in Canton Sarajevo 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 in Sarajevo in Hotel Hollywood on Saturday and Sunday on June 13 and 14, 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 20 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, 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. The origin

of the idea of a global ethic is closely related to world religions, but a global ethic is understood as an ethical basis that beyond religion includes humanistic ethos without a religious foundation.

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”, showed a video “The Lie We Live” and short movie “The Hate Machine”, and worked on the demonstration of four double lessons. After each double lesson, 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-

Pedagogical Institute 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 successful completion of the two-day training – teaching unit “A Global Ethic in School”.