Someone give me a story bout a social change in our life
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A room full of principals, policy makers, and senior faculty listened intently to Kiran’s simple yet profound thoughts on whether education today is preparing our kids for the future. Kiran reinforced how they can play a crucial role in teaching kids to think, develop skills needed for today and giving them the freedom to choose in order to create curious, competent future citizens.
Kiran demonstrated her deep belief that every child has the potential to bring about social change if only we believe in them. Kiran explains. "The 21st century skills are not a separate syllabus - it becomes embedded in their everyday life. And when children do good, they also do well."
Raffles Institution was invited to share how their DFC project ‘smile for cleaners’ helped sensitize their schoolmates and teachers to the plight of hardworking but unsung heroes. The DFC process involved many aspects of learning from research, analytical skills, design-thinking process, and implementation, re-doing & re-fining and sharing in many ways.
Jaspal Kaur, CIP teacher from Pasir Ris Primary and Mr Mark Minjoot, principal of Greendale Secondary joined in to share their experiences with DFC Singapore in the last two years.
‘education by design and not by chance’ – a social conversation with Kiran : the session was held in collaboration with Lien Centre for Social Innovation
Responding to a question from the audience on empowering children, Kiran said:
"The kids have to feel it themselves," she reiterated, “and it's not about ticking off a checklist of projects, or having children parrot issues that adults tell them about. They have to engage with their community, see the real needs and feel for the issue, in order to develop genuine empathy. This could even be as simple as allowing a visually handicapped boy to touch the faces of all those around him for the first time (a DFC project from the Experimental Elementary School in Taiwan).”
Design for Change became a by-product of the Riverside School syllabus; and has since gone global, reaching 35 countries, 300,000 schools and 25 million children.
Kiran demonstrated her deep belief that every child has the potential to bring about social change if only we believe in them. Kiran explains. "The 21st century skills are not a separate syllabus - it becomes embedded in their everyday life. And when children do good, they also do well."
Raffles Institution was invited to share how their DFC project ‘smile for cleaners’ helped sensitize their schoolmates and teachers to the plight of hardworking but unsung heroes. The DFC process involved many aspects of learning from research, analytical skills, design-thinking process, and implementation, re-doing & re-fining and sharing in many ways.
Jaspal Kaur, CIP teacher from Pasir Ris Primary and Mr Mark Minjoot, principal of Greendale Secondary joined in to share their experiences with DFC Singapore in the last two years.
‘education by design and not by chance’ – a social conversation with Kiran : the session was held in collaboration with Lien Centre for Social Innovation
Responding to a question from the audience on empowering children, Kiran said:
"The kids have to feel it themselves," she reiterated, “and it's not about ticking off a checklist of projects, or having children parrot issues that adults tell them about. They have to engage with their community, see the real needs and feel for the issue, in order to develop genuine empathy. This could even be as simple as allowing a visually handicapped boy to touch the faces of all those around him for the first time (a DFC project from the Experimental Elementary School in Taiwan).”
Design for Change became a by-product of the Riverside School syllabus; and has since gone global, reaching 35 countries, 300,000 schools and 25 million children.
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