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Develop and Sustain

Sustainable and Development: The Alternative Strategy to Progress

Statistics is a credible evidence to the statement “Progress Means Deterioration” by Patrick Huber. As you have seen progress and development are synonymous to disintegration and chaos. The current pattern of economic progress and development, as it was in the past, enriches a few but fails to address the needs of the vast majority who are poor. But more than this, it has depleted the earths natural wealth. Is this development? What we are seeing now are the adverse impacts of growth and development on our natural resources. Our environmental problems actually reflects each one of us lack of development. It is common problems are usually structural in nature.

Sustainable Development is no longer new concept. It is a term that will be carried on to the future because it is about the future, our future. Sustainable development is fundamentally about shaping that future about directing change to create the kind of future that we want to have. It is, therefore alternative strategy to development.

In this article we need to sustain our development as individual and not the opposite of development. You know that if we develop and improve our personality we carry also our career, our country and nature. Think of that it’s not too late to change. We need to develop and improve ourselves first and sustain that level.

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Teaching Approach

The teaching approach adopted by this series andragogical, or experiental in nature. It is premised on the concept that adolescent learners have a rich reservoir of experience from which new learnings may spring. Each adolescent learner is a source of learning, hence provisions for creative and stimulating learning experience allow the learners to go through the activities where they can learn values together.

Values Education

The approach also makes use of the strengths of the major approaches to values education. values clarification, moral development. It believes that values education teaching learning process where these two functions are appropriately exercised. Values clarification and values analysis always precede the directive process

Values Education Philosophy

The Values Education Philosophy of a person is endowed with spiritual, physical, moral, social, economic, and special political powers. These potentials are innate in the human being. Hence, Values Education helps the person develop or enhance these potentials and use them for self actualization and for the common good. The person’s fullness actualized in his/her being with others and in the pursuit of something beyond himself/herself in the common good.

Values Development

On this basis, values development may be two pronged: the development of the self in relation to oneself (intrarrelations and the development of the self in relations to others (interrelations). These are two separate dimensions, yet they are a whole aligned in the development of the human being.

Intrarelations and Interrelations

Development of both the intrarelations and interrelations directed toward the pursuit of the common good is God inspired. Thus, processes for all kinds of development, including values development, should be directive and in conformity with what is good and with the will of God.

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