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Liana Bedinadze - The author of the book "Culture of Conduct" (teaching Ethics at schools on the elementary level) a pedagogue of the Public School #24 in Tbilisi Georgia. A Founder and the Executive Directore of the Association Mtsodneli - Innovation REsearch Center in Georgia. More than 30 years of teaching experience at the elementary level at school. The book is designed for children at the age of 7 to 10, in the 2nd, 3rd 4th and 5th grades. It is taught through interactive exercises: games and activities designed as part of the teaching methodology offer a fun way for young children to learn about differences and similarities among people and to introduce the concept of diversity. All types of differences such as race, religion, language, traditions, and gender can be introduced this way.
The book outlines the variety of ways people can be different from each other including colour, size, language, and family.
The Culture of Conduct is the book authored by Liana Bedinadze designed to respond to the lack of discussion on various concepts and theories of ethics in the public schools in Georgia. The book aims to raise and develop in the students the skills of critical thinking, logic, decision-making and the capacity to analyse what is the right and wrong in specific situations and contexts. The book aims at introducing discussion of moral issues in a systematic way and provides an educational experience.
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Quinnipiac's Sujata Gadkar-Wilcox discusses her work researching the conception of human rights in a community in rural India. She tells the story of Chaya Kakade, a woman who went on a hunger strike after the Indian government proposed a tax on sanitary napkins, and has since built her own production center in Latur. How does Kakade understand human rights? How can Westerners move beyond a legalistic view of the concept?
"The rise of China is not the biggest story in the world," says Parag Khanna. "The Asianization of Asia, the return of Asia, the rise of the Asian system, is the biggest story in the world." This new Asian system, where business, technology, globalization, and geopolitics are intertwined, stretches from Japan to Saudi Arabia, from Australia to Russia, and Indonesia to Turkey, linking 5 billion people.
How is China influencing democracies such as Taiwan, Korea, and the United States? "I think there are three areas that you can look at," says Asia security analyst Rachael Burton. "The first is narrative dominance, which I would call a form of cognitive warfare. Beijing has been able to set the terms of debate . . . and once you're asking the questions, then you're able to drive intellectuals or policymakers to a certain answer."
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