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Moral Education

Moral Education is an innovative, engaging curriculum designed to develop young people of all nationalities
and ages in the UAE with universal principles and values, that reflect the shared experiences of humanity. At
Clarion School, Moral Education is embedded in the very ethos, vision and values of who we are as a
school.

Moral Education 20/20 Vision Clarion School Vision
‘A journey to preparing a generation of young ‘Our students will be challenged to high
people who are responsible, resilient and expectations and engaging with the world as
knowledgeable who can contribute to their collaborative, productive and responsible members
community locally and globally.’ of a global community’.

At Clarion the Moral Education Curriculum is best illustrated and evidenced in Social Studies. Social
Studies is made up of several components that provide opportunities for teachers and children to:
• Learn in an interdisciplinary way—using literacy, mathematics, science, and art for example, as
means for exploration and expression.
• Examine the interaction between people and their environments and analyze how human life is
shaped by the environment and how people have reshaped it;
• Study human technologies from the simple to the complex, and how technology serves the basic
human needs of food, clothing, and shelter and communication;
• Explore the social systems—family, community, work, laws, taboos, customs, and beliefs—
that determine a people’s way of life and structure individual and group behavior;
• Study cultures through myths, religion, science, and art to gain an understanding of how a
people arrive at a sense of meaning;
• Recognize that we live in an ever-changing world and examine the competencies needed to meet
and challenge that world
• Prepare to live as citizens by being part of a classroom where children have the opportunity to
participate in making decisions, learning to work collaboratively, listening to each other’s ideas, and
coming to respect different points of view.
Social Studies includes the social fabric of classroom life. EVERYTHING is Social Studies.
EVERYTHING is Moral Education.

At Clarion, the implicit curriculum refers to —how children interact with each other, how they speak
to the adults in the room, what happens when playing outside or in the lunchroom. This is why the
routines and setting of expectations for classroom living are so important in the beginning of the year.
The organization and the management of the classroom reflect the kind of values we share as a
community.
As important as WHAT we Study, is HOW we Study.

The Moral Education program is designed using the following 4 pillars. These pillars are reflected in our
Clarion Student Profile:
• Character and Morality
• The Individual and the community
• Cultural Studies
• Civic Studies

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