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“EHV Program – Excellence through Human Values” for Early Childhood and Primary Aged Children.
The foundation of any quality early childhood program is the development of the “whole child” in whom all the personality domains, physical, intellectual, emotional, social and spiritual are given appropriate importance so that the child gains an optimal start to life.
The “EHV Program – Excellence through Human Values” supports the holistic development of children in early childhood and can be used by teachers and parents alike for kids aged between four and eight.
Educators and Parents have a special responsibility for helping the children lay a strong foundation for a peaceful, ethical and productive life for their children. The aim of the EHV (Education in Human Values) program is to help teachers and parents to realise this goal.
In striving towards the oneness of humanity through Human Values educators around the world have found the children also become more generally competent, more focused on academic work without losing balance, more socially skilled and resourced, more confident and more aware of their own and others feelings.
The basic philosophy that underpins this program is that it will improve the life of the child forever by creating a positive self-identity and by unfolding competencies in all personality domains. The program is based on a grid of values (character attributes) that increase progressively in cognitive and emotional complexity.
The pedagogy of the program is a cluster of strategies that a teacher will use in collaboration with the parents to shape the consciousness of the child positively, anchoring the child in a personal ethical philosophy about self, others and the environment. This is aimed to achieve through an encounter of the child with age appropriate understanding and practice of universal human values.
This program is designed to complement the Community Services and Health Industry Skills Council Unit CHCECE010 – “Support the holistic development of children in early childhood” In this Program examples are given of how the teachers may integrate values into the State Curriculum and thus retain the emphasis on Human Values even while satisfying the needs of the Curriculum.
This program is presented in three Volumes – A Handbook for Teachers, Teacher’s Resource I and Teacher’s Resource II with additional resource material. The Handbook for Teachers gives teachers an understanding of the Philosophy of EHV, deeper knowledge of the five Human Values and sufficient details of the Teaching Techniques for teachers to make their own start in creating a culture of Human Values in their School. The Teacher’s Resource of Lessons gives 40 model lessons in detail.
The full program will extend over two years if each lesson is spread over one week. This Program is specifically designed for the teachers and the children of Pre-Primary and Primary Schools. The Parent Link invites and involves the parents in a collaborative effort with the teachers to inculcate at home, the values that are the focus of understanding in the School, so the children are immersed in a culture of the same value in both the institutions that shape their character positively.
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