UNESCO Ethics Teacher Training Course in Minsk, Belarus, 17-21 November 2008

April 30, 2008

One of the activities undertaken to disseminate information concerning the Universal Declaration on Bioethics and Human Rights, adopted in 2005 by UNESCO, is the Ethics Education Program. This program is mapping existing teaching programs in the area of ethics in the Member States of UNESCO. The various programs are described, discussed in expert meetings, and made available in the Global Ethics Observatory (www.unesco.org/shs/ethics/geobs). Experiences concerning the contents, intensity, methods and materials of existing programs are therefore publicly accessible and can be exchanged among experts. Teachers who want to initiate ethics teaching can find suggestions and ideas in the database. UNESCO has organised meetings with ethics teaching experts in the previous years in Budapest, Moscow, Split, Muscat and Istanbul. In 2008 a similar meeting will take place in Marrakesh, Morocco.

More information as well as a registration form can be found on the SHS website.