Personal development
A path towards understanding Global Citizenship
Our aim is to transmit a set of knowledge and skills to students: how to live together and to cooperate in order to understand society and its global challenges. This important skill training is implemented throughout the primary school years and is centered around 4 basic principles:
- Thinking and acting independently, and being able to defend one’s position and choices (Autonomy);
- Understanding the merits of the norms and rules that regulate individual and collective behavior; to respect them and follow them (Discipline);
- Recognize the diversity of opinions, convictions, beliefs and lifestyles (Coexistence of freedoms);
- Build social and political ties (Community).
These skills are translated into a series of lessons, projects and school-related activities that are gradually introduced from kindergarten, with the objective of understanding and experiencing citizenship. Some examples are:
- Class representative elections and student council meetings;
- Civic instruction and visits to Moroccan and French public institutions;
- Debates inspired by the “Model United Nations” (MUN);
- Discovering important international texts (Declaration of Human and Citizen Rights, Universal Declaration of Human Rights, etc.).
EFI students also conduct at least one humanitarian project each year, in particular in connection with the UNESCO school network, but also with Moroccan or International NGOs (Morocco-based).
