Meaningful Conversations: The Role of the Teacher

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In the current context where children grow in protected yet isolated environments where their interactions with adults and groups of children are limited, their connections virtual and their inclusion in community endeavors rare, they need to be guided through conversations that promote mutual respect and understanding. Such meaningful conversations are constructive of closeness and friendship, and as the first step for building unity will serve as the foundation for collective and unified action.

In this respect, the role of the teacher is central to actively model the method of delivery and the substance of such conversations, encouraging questioning and elevating this scientific exploration of underlying causes of societal ills and their remedies by reframing and re-imagining everyday subjects: to find the profound in the mundane, the significant in the trivial, the unifying in the controversial.

Rebecca Teclemariam-Mesbah main passion is to explore how spirituality, scientific knowledge and creativity can meet to help grow sustainable, plentiful, and vibrant communities. With an Ethiopian father and a French mother, and having lived in Ethiopia, Kenya, France, the Netherlands and now Bosnia and Herzegovina, she is keenly aware that a diversity of voices and inputs are vital to this growth. Rebecca holds a PhD in Neurobiology (University of Strasbourg, France), an MA in Women and Development (Erasmus University, Netherlands) and a Montessori International Diploma (Early Years) and Teacher Trainer certificate from Montessori Center UK.