A Human Values Pathway for Teachers

Dr Suma Parahakaran is a researcher in Education in Human Values and member from the Sathya Sai Academy, Malaysia. She also works as a consultant for the Southeast Asian Ministers of Education Organisation Regional Centre for Education in Science and Mathematics (SEAMEO- RECSAM) Malaysia. Currently, Suma is a visiting Professor for the American University of Sovereign Nations (USA) and her research is on Spiritual Human Values and Bioethics in environmental education. Suma was also an education training consultant for HUMANA Child Aid Society (2014-2016) and has worked with schools in Thailand and Malaysia. She was a resource person for the Human Values based Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Education (HVWSHE) for the (UNHABITAT) and Society for Preservation of Water (Institute of Sathya Sai Education, Thailand) between 2004 and 2009. The focus of her work is in the integration of education in human values in the curriculum for Education and Environmental Education. Silent-sitting is one of the main teaching pedagogies which Suma is interested in implementing in educational systems. She works as a tutor in the Education faculty for Wawasan Open University, Malaysia   Dr. Stephen Scherer is a research and supervising clinical health psychologist whose research interests lie primarily in the field of emotion and emotion regulation, with a focus on mindfulness as a mediator of emotion regulation. Dr. Scherer has over 20 years of experience in meditative practice and began researching emotion regulation and mindfulness as an undergraduate student. He developed the Personal Factors that Influence Academic Behaviors Assessment (PIABs) which aims to further bring the fields of mindfulness, emotion regulation, and post-secondary education together to help enrich the lives and successes of college and college-bound students. He also teaches mindfulness and emotion regulation strategies to children, adolescents, and adultsin his clinical practice and provides Dialectical Behavior Therapy, a mindfulness-based treatment to adolescents and adults.

1.The impact of silent sitting on Chinese teachers’ problems.- 2.Teachers’ perceptions of implementing silent sitting for Education in Human Values inMalaysia.- 3.Humanising Education in the Digital Era.- 4.Silent Sitting & Story Telling: The Power Of Oral Traditions.- 5.Silent sitting technique in the digital era:The benefits for Sustainable Education Transformational journey.- 6.Silent Sitting: A as a self transformatory process.- 7.Teachers’ experiential learning using silent sitting.- 8.Mindfullness as Resilience: Applying African- Centered Psychology in Educating Youth of Color in the United States.- 9.Mind Management & Inner Strength: Human Values program for Community development.- 10.Silent sitting: a reflective tool for sustainable education.