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Telephone numbers: 2810 370593 / 6974 303512
Ε-mail: info@elstea.net
The cultivation of Virtues supports Education and Training.
“…for the absolute accomplishment of virtue, three conditions must be met: nature, logos, and habit. The origins of virtue exist in human nature; I call logos the learning and habit the practice. Nature without learning is blind, learning without nature is incomplete, and practice without these two is imperfect…“
~ Plutarch, On the Education of Children
The Stegi for Welfare and Excellence has designed educational programs for primary schools and students, as well as for institutions that focus on the cognitive and moral development of children. The programs are implemented by educators who have themselves cultivated the virtues and they teach them, experts in hagiography, painting, clay, gold-silversmithing workshops, and at our premises during a three-hour morning visit.
The program is divided into two parts:
- In the first part, the children watch audiovisual material, a video, created by Stegi of Welfare and Excellence, which is an adaptation of a thematic unit. Then, the pedagogue, using the question-and-answer method, Dialectic Method, stimulates the children’s Critical Thinking and Emotional Intelligence. From the meanings of the themes selected from Ancient Greek Literature and Mythology, virtues such as friendship, temperance, solidarity, courage, justice, democracy, and diligence (love for work) emerge, and the children are encouraged to put them into practice in their lives. From the development of children’s Critical Thinking and Emotional Intelligence, Virtues emerge.
- In the second part, the children engage in traditional crafts. In the hagiography, painting, and clay workshops, children create their own work under the guidance of specialized staff on a topic that often relates to the theme they have watched. Thus, skills and abilities such as observation, attention, self-concentration, creativity, self-confidence, noble rivalry, initiative, and a sense of harmony and beauty are cultivated.
- During break, in a designated area, children have the opportunity to engage in sports, play board games or browse the libraries of Stegi.
The goal of the educational programs is to support the efforts of the family and the school in developing the physical, intellectual, and moral abilities of children.
Thematics
CLASS |
THEMATIC UNIT |
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| 1st and 2nd Grade | Aesop‘s Fables
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| 3rd and 4th Grade | Greek Mythology
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| 5th and 6th Grade | Topics that subserve “KNOW THYSELF”
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Full Program (in Greek)
