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26 April 2007 18:59

Participants of the Second Human Rebirth, Revival, and Development International Humanitarian Forum Summarize Master Classes

April 26, 2007, the participants of the Second Human Rebirth, Revival, and Development International Humanitarian Forum summarized the master classes, round tables, workshops, and laboratories held within the Forum’s framework.

The pedagogues shared their impressions of the Forum and exchanged their proposals and ideas. Professor with the Pedagogical Science Chair of the Moscow State Pedagogical University Tatyana Kovaliova suggested carrying out trainings as part of the future Forums to raise the level of teachers’ skills. Mrs. Kovaliova also proposed to create a website with videos of pedagogic master classes, turning it into an open space for work and experience exchange between pedagogues not only from Ukraine but also from other countries.

Professor with the Psychology Chair of the Moscow State Pedagogical University Aleksandr Savienkov outlined a series of problems touched on at many master classes. These are issues related to, in part, tolerance, connection between education and children’s health and between education and the arts, etc.

Director of the Open Pedagogic School Serhiy Vietrov said that in July 2007 a ten-day Author’s Pedagogic Festival will be held in Yuzhne, Odesa oblast. Mr. Vietrov also presented the Open Lesson: Pleiades magazine published by Ukraine 3000 Fund jointly with the Open Pedagogic School. Copies of the magazine were distributed among all Forum participants.

The participants of the Forum expressed their wish to create a festival movement dedicated to educational issues. In their view, this should be a series of author’s, regional, and interregional festivals related to education and upbringing, which would help pedagogues to exchange experience.

In the three days of the Forum’s work, 15 master classes and three simultaneous round tables had been held.

Besides, within the Forum framework, leading pedagogues of the Academy of Pedagogical Sciences of Ukraine met with students of the Crimean Humanities Department of the Drahomanov National Pedagogical University and conducted for them a series of trainings.

April 27, 2007, a pedagogic summit will take place and the Forum’s summarizing document, Manifesto of Humane Education and Upbringing, made public.