7th IOCES International Conference Co-convened with the 4th WCCES Symposium (Virtually through Zoom)

Conference Theme - Values Education and Emotional Learning: Broader Implications for Holistic Curriculum & Schooling during and beyond the COVID-19 Pandemic

“The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education”                                                                                                - Dr. Martin Luther King   

Background and Rationale 

For more than a year, the COVID-19 pandemic has continued its devastation in the world despite the advent of vaccines. The inequalities on the bases of race, gender, social class, ethnicity, national origin, religion and a broader set of grounds of social differentiation, within and between nations, have been further exposed by the ravages of the pandemic. For instance, despite promises, vaccines have been hoarded by wealthy nations while leaving the developing nations with limited capacities in managing this global crisis within their respective borders. This pandemic has also tested the leadership almost everywhere…