Global Citizen Curriculum

This section like everything else in this document is in development. Development and global deployment of a curriculum with the aim of educating children from a young age with the following goals:

• Be good responsible citizens
• Show dedication and commitment to excellence in whatever they do, whether it relates to matters in personal life, career, volunteering or any other avenues.
• Instill the overview effect in every human being and have it become a critical part of their personality/character/worldview, thereby developing a strong concern for protecting planet Earth and the desire to live cooperatively in a global society
• Improve emotional health, conscientiousness, empathy, openness, low dogmatism,, self-esteem, curiosity, leadership abilities, authenticity and other positive personality attributes
• Play an important role in a cooperative global society that works towards the advancement of humankind.
• Be able to think rationally, logically and independently. Think with depth and precision and develop an ability to objectively evaluate different ideas at the same time and be largely immune to confirmation bias. Apply our brain to its maximum potential.
• Learn to be good and effective parents.
• See all diversity-related groups (national, geographic, gender, racial, faith-related and so on) as equals and treat them with equal respect and tolerance.
• Develop a passion for volunteering
• Be great at problem-solving (for example analyzing all possible solutions and choosing the best). This means training and practice in effective problem-solving.
• Be good in decision-making. Consider all possible sources of information and analyze outcomes
• Reward people who follow the above principles.

All these items require further detail and study. The curriculum could span the entire lifetime of an individual. It would be taught to kids of a young age to people when they're 18 or so. If needed, revision training could be offered to a person of any age. The curriculum would be designed to discover, nurture and strengthen unique personal abilities and provide an environment for the individual so these abilities can be fully utilized in society.

This training can be improved in many ways and this will need feedback from others about what they think can be taught. Also its relatively easy to think of traits that we want others to have. Its challenging to create methods that can be used by others to develop and strengthen those traits over time.

This initiative would take the help of teachers, educators, psychologists and other subject-area experts to develop a curriculum that would become part of the existing education system. It would be continuously improved like any other project on Javul. It would be developed in multiple languages with all kinds of teaching methods targeted (courses, books, exercises, videos, powerpoints, face to face classes and so on). Needless to say the curriculum would be available for free. To encourage deployment, countries or education systems that deploy the GCC would receive benefits that can be decided later.

The GCC will try to create partnerships with other organizations with similar goals such as The Foundation for a Better Life.

See this real life example where an attempt is made to teach young people certain values or ways of thinking. This is another example. The GCC doesn’t strive for perfection or the solution of every problem, only improvement over the current situation. This means we are not expecting anyone to become perfect in any way after this training. We’re hoping to see incremental improvement.