MOST religions already have their own resources to teach good character traits and values. But for parents and educators looking to get a neutral non-religious-based resource, check out Character Building Resource published by Learners Publishing.Co-written by a panel of authors from Singapore and the United Kingdom, the book is targeted at children aged between 9 and 13, whose adult sense of good and bad, and right and wrong is just beginning to develop.
The book covers all the core values that they will need.
Complementing national education
A unique feature: it supports its main values education framework with lessons and examples drawn from Singapore's history and social structure.
Thus this complements values education with national education, providing the student with material that comes from their own experience and environment, increasing its meaning for them.
Character Building Resource - Scope of book
The qualities and issues dealt with in the book are grouped as follows:
- Basis of a person's self-respect: integrity, self-discipline and related qualities.
- Help people to get to grips with the world: courage, enthusiasm, positive thinking and other qualities.
- Sustain people in adversity: quiet virtues such as patience and perseverance.
- Show concern for others: selfless qualities such as kindness and compassion.
- Enable people to work together with others: good relationship qualities such as courtesy and fairness.
- Make people useful and worthy members of society: citizenship qualities such as patriotism and tolerance.
- Helping the world deal with current crises: respect for nature and the environment, appreciation of education and literacy and understanding of internationalism.
Each unit deals with a particular quality or issue in an entertaining, but also thought-provoking and inspiring way. Topics are also suggested for further discussion.
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