Georgia

Georgian Association of Educational Initiatives (SIQA) ALIVE Associate Tea Lobjanidze Tel: +995 34 151358 Mob: +995 99 556 234

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Living Values Education came to Georgia when Pavle Tvaliashvili attended the LVEP Train-the-Trainer seminar in Oxford, England during the summer of 2004. He and several other educators have enthusiastically embraced the program and begun translation of the materials.

On 22 January, 2005, an LVEP Informational Seminar was held for Georgian teachers and school principals. This first LVEP workshop took place in Zugdidi. Twenty-five Zugdidi school directors and educators took part. Mr. Tvaliashvili acquainted them with the program overview, content, goals and principles. The seminar participants talked about the 12 values presented in LVEP and decided that six of the values could be connected with the developing ?Open Schools? model in Georgia. The chosen values are: Responsibility, Freedom, Humility, Cooperation, Honesty and Unity. All 12 of the values will support the education system in Georgia. They agreed to pilot LVEP?s classroom activities. The issue of values is of concern in this city as it is situated near the Abkhazeti conflict zone. There are many internally displaced students in the schools; educators from Zugdidi are especially interested in Living Values Education Program?s materials for refugees. Workshop participants will implement LVEP in the classroom to explore the effects of the program and find out what works practically in Georgian schools. They will participate in trainings to serve as LVEP teachers in the future.