Student Life

Students are welcome to tackle all aspects of their lives and in particular they will try to find the correlation of their actual and foreseen life with success. They will have to define success. Is it money? Is it family or love? Following ones dreams? Is it having a good life? What is a good life? When students will compare their “living conditions” to others they will learn more about themselves. They will get to know other cultures’ understanding of success and the path to it. What are the obstacles and the means to achieve this sometimes elusive goalThe most important thing is to get the students to see the path of "Studying-Having a degree" to "Success", and knowing that having the best education from the best school doesn't guarantee success. Consequently, this will unlock concepts like competence, individual/group efficiency, professionalism and many more. Getting students together in this project will be a great opportunity for them to discuss and discover each other’s habits and lifestyles as students. It will give them the opportunity to come up with interesting conclusions and solutions!

This projects ultimate goal is to get the students aware of their impact on great issues of our time. As a member of the WEC volunteering team (World Education corps this project background will revolve around 21st Century issues as described in Jim Martin’s book. If you want more information about this initiative please go to: www.worldeducationcorps.org The issues include: World population growth, water shortages, education access, food shortages, economic disparity, technological advances, environmental destruction/preservation, and more.In this project students will express themselves, share and discuss their dreams. It will empower them and give a tangible and concrete avenue for their willingness to do positive actions and to be good. An interesting way to get this under the Jim Martin perspective would be to show students that, with all these studying hours, they are not getting the time to get acquainted and think about ideas like the ones coming from the "Meaning of the 21st Century" book.

Facilitated by: Paul Metni (from Lebanon) serving in China and Eddie Kigozi (from Uganda) serving in India

Ages: 15+

Languages: English

Dates: Ongoing

Contact: For more information about participating in this or other iEARN projects, write to iearn@iearn.org.