Workshop by Dr. Manuels Fernandezs, Senior Researcher, and Anna Sidorova, Doctoral student & Teacher, University of Latvia.

This workshop is led by Dr Manuels Fernandezs (MA Character Education) who will share how the Character curriculum of the Jubilee Centre for Character and Virtues was transferred to schools in Latvia in partnership with 265 teachers.

We will explore some of the main challenges and solutions to developing this moral online education through the spirit of openness, dialogue, respect and emotional control!

In the second part of the workshop, we would like to work together with participants on good (and bad!) experiences about implementing moral education online. To feed the discussion, we will share what Latvian teachers said about this issue, as most of them (excepting preschool education) were piloting the moral curriculum in online settings because of COVID-19 restrictions. Our input for the joint discussion comes from more than 1300 feedback questionnaires from teachers and from 4 focus group discussions.

What we hope to learn together as a 'take awa' from this workshop are new practical ideas for implementing moral education online, and inspiration for enhancing the awareness of the values of the school community, including teachers and parents, when implementing moral education at school.