Workshop focuses on children and sustainable development

Workshop focuses on children and sustainable development

(Vatican Radio) The Pontifical Academy of Sciences is hosting a Workshop from 13-15 November on “Children and Sustainable Development: A Challenge for Education.”

The Workshop is a followup to the April 2014 Workshop “Sustainable Humanity, Sustainable Nature.” The earlier workshops included contributions that produced a clear picture of the issues, and stressed the urgency to act. It also raised the need for spiritual and moral leadership. But the Workshop stopped short of elucidating the role of education in the changes to come, and making poposals for action in this direction. These essential questions form the basis of the current Workshop.

According to the Pontifical Academy of sciences, the goal of the Workshop “is to build, through education, an inclusive society in which all people can have the resources to develop a life project in harmony with their culture and beliefs, transcultural universal values and respect for the environment. Children must develop an approach open to the other as oneself so that the world, without losing the richness of diversity, can become ever more integrated. To prepare their active participation in the common good, promoting a cooperation between students in their relationships with civic awareness, valuing cooperation and solidarity above all forms of competitive selfishness are essential. Cognitive and health sciences provide today a better understanding of the way children grow, from birth onward, develop their cognitive abilities to read and write but also to reason, as well as their emotional senses and empathy.”

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