The course of philosophy in Armenian and global education system. The separation of humanities and exact sciences from philosophy. The movement “Philosophy for children” (P4C). Philosophical meditation in adolescence, questions of identity and ontology, skepticism. The philosophical ethics and theology as a foundation for the value system, worldview, and the way of life.

• Speaker: Lilia Khachatryan
• Host: Deacon Vardan Aslanyan

A value-based approach to professional activities. Keeping moral norms in society and its importance. Professional ethics as a moral imperative of a person. Professional oath, responsibilities to society. Common violations and the law regulations. Introducing the principles of the professional ethics to schoolchildren and university students.

• Speaker: Varduhi Petrosyan
• Host: Deacon Vardan Aslanyan

The stages of person’s psychosocial development. Changes occurring in childhood and adolescence and common difficulties. The levels of realization of self-identity. The formation of the value system, values education. Firming of the fundamental ideas in the consciousness of the teenager. The right opportunities for the psychological intervention in the school program.  

• Speaker: Anna Arakelyan
• Host: Deacon Vardan Aslanyan

The education crisis in Armenia. The character of a teacher in various cultures and ages. The traditions of Mashtots’ school and Armenian pedagogy. The institute of leadership as a model of values education. Pedagogical ethics. Equal educational rights in provinces. Reformation projects of the educational system.

Speaker: Hripsime Khanzadyan
Host: Deacon Vardan Aslanyan

The fundamental importance of trust in human life. Self-confidence and its dangers.
Myths spoon-fed to society and their refutation: “Believe in yourself,” “You can be whatever you want to be,” “The existing system is trustworthy.” The motto “In God we
trust.”

• Speaker: Fr. Mesrop Aramian
• Host: Deacon Vardan Aslanyan

Knowing the world as part of self-education. Can humans love their fatherland without knowing it? The necessity of learning foreign countries and cultures. Preserving the national identity and values through perpetual contact with the native nature and the cultural monuments of fatherland.

• Speaker: Varsenik Melkumyan
• Host: Deacon Vardan Aslanyan

The Indo-European origin of the Armenian nation. The legendary and historical ties between Armenian and European nations. Cultural exchange between Armenia and Europe. Christianization of Armenia and the Christian West. European values.

• Speaker: Tigran Khzmalyan
• Host: Deacon Vardan Aslanyan

The difference between knowledge and information. Sources of knowledge. The misleading effect of information streams and their management. News transmission and journalism ethics. State information policy and information security.

• Speaker: Noyemi Andreasyan
• Host: Deacon Vardan Aslanyan

The traditions of Mashtots school. State normatives of the educational program. International baccalaureate programs: Araratian Baccalaureate. Teaching methodology of the disciplines related to national identity. Selection and training of the teaching staff. Introducing the study course “Identity and Values” to high school.

• Speaker: Meri Hovsepyan
• Host: Deacon Vardan Aslanyan

Sources and distinctiveness of Armenian music. Armenian spiritual, folk and classical music. Music from alien cultures, refinement and purification of Armenian melodies by Komitas. Formation of musical taste in society.

• Speaker: Daniel Yerazhisht
• Host: Deacon Vardan Aslanyan

Museum culture in Armenia. The methodological basis for organization of museum exhibitions and their educational significance. The integration of teachers and students into the museum environment. Museums as guardians of national identity and values. State policy in the museum sphere.  

• Speaker: Alvard Grigoryan
• Host: Deacon Vardan Aslanyan

The difference between national ideology and chauvinism, nationalism and other destructive ideologies. Distinctive features of nation-state. The participation of the intellectual elite in creation of the national ideology. Garegin Nzhdeh and his Tseghakron movement. The necessity of national vision and of a long-term state plan.  

• Speaker: Gagik Ginosyan
• Host: Deacon Vardan Aslanyan

The family of world languages. The nation-preserving function of the Armenian language. Conditions of language development. Regulation mechanisms of the state and law institutions. The historical layers of Armenian—Classical Armenian, Western Armenian, and classical orthography. New teaching approaches of Armenian. Teaching of foreign languages and in foreign languages.

• Speaker: Davit Gyurjinyan
• Host: Deacon Vardan Aslanyan

Human, individual, citizen. The formation of the citizen. Expression mechanisms of civil will. State–citizen relations. Manipulations of authorities that mislead citizens. Civil disobedience.

• Speaker: Anna Davtyan-Gevorkyan
• Host: Deacon Vardan Aslanyan

The periods of Western thought. The rationalism and freethinking of the Enlightenment. Doubts concerning the maturity of human thought and its abilities in the modern and postmodern reality. Metamodernism and AI. Dangers threatening human identity and values.

• Speaker: Aram Pakhchanyan
• Host: Deacon Vardan Aslanyan

Literary masterpieces that transform human life and our worldview. “Citadelle” by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. Eternal values. Creation of cultures and civilizations. The leader as a teacher and shepherd. Uniting people through love. Engaging in daily work and creating something good instead of judging others and complaining.

• Speaker: Shushanik Tamrazyan
• Host: Deacon Vardan Aslanyan

Culture and civilization. Culture as process; bearers and creators of culture. Global, national and Christian culture. Cultural starvation and lost of identity. Anti-culture and subculture. Modern challenges and the prospects of the antagonism between culture and anti-culture.

• Speaker: Karine Yaralyan
• Host: Deacon Vardan Aslanyan

Events that leave scars on the psychology of nation: genocide, forced migration, massacre, war. Impacts on the national dignity. Threats of losing national identity: vanishing, assimilation, religious conversion. Armenian Genocide in the context of global history. How should we remember the Genocide? Having been subjected to genocide, yet not backing down on national identity and values. Trauma recovery mechanisms. The need of changing the national psychology.

• Speaker: Shushan Khachatryan
• Host: Deacon Vardan Aslanyan

Truth as a core value. Rhetorical and philosophical question  “What is truth.” Search for the truth as a way of attaining knowledge; limitedness of human cognition and its levels. The words of Christ: “I am the Truth.” The hidden and at the same time revelatory character of the truth. The need for development of independent thinking in the education system instead of enforcing formulated “truths.”

Speaker: Fr. Mesrop Aramian
Host: Deacon Vardan Aslanyan