Identity and Values

Identity and Values

The program is about worldview issues. The main topics include personal and collective identity, epistemology, and axiology. The purpose of the program is to promote conceptual thinking, shape community-building culture, and spread the dialogue about values in Armenia and the Diaspora.

 

Teaching Philosophy
26/09/2023

Teaching Philosophy

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
Identity and Values
Professional Ethics
19/09/2023

Professional Ethics

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
Identity and Values
Personal Development
12/09/2023

Personal Development

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
Identity and Values
Teacher’s Mission
05/09/2023

Teacher’s Mission

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

 

Identity and Values
Trust
25/07/2023
35 minutes 48 seconds

Trust

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
Identity and Values
Patridognosia (Knowledge of One’s Fatherland)
18/07/2023
30 minutes 28 seconds

Patridognosia (Knowledge of One’s Fatherland)

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

 

Identity and Values
European Values
11/07/2023
31 minutes 55 seconds

European Values

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
Identity and Values
Knowledge and Information Streams
04/07/2023
34 minutes 24 seconds

Knowledge and Information Streams

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
Identity and Values
The National Component of Education
28/06/2023
32 minutes 14 seconds

The National Component of Education

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
Identity and Values
National Music
20/06/2023
31 minutes 11 seconds

National Music

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

 

Identity and Values
Museum Education
13/06/2023
37 minutes 37 seconds

Museum Education

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
Identity and Values
National Ideology
06/06/2023
33 minutes 15 seconds

National Ideology

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
Identity and Values
National Language
30/05/2023
34 minutes 42 seconds

National Language

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

 

Identity and Values
Civil Society
23/05/2023
36 minutes 32 seconds

Civil Society

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

 

Identity and Values
Evolution of Human Thought from Enlightenment to Metamodernism
19/05/2023
30 minutes 43 seconds

Evolution of Human Thought from Enlightenment to Metamodernism

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
Identity and Values
Value System and Leadership
09/05/2023
34 minutes 28 seconds

Value System and Leadership

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
Identity and Values
Culture and Anti-culture
02/05/2023
28 minutes 04 seconds

Culture and Anti-culture

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
Identity and Values
National Scars
24/04/2023
29 minutes 24 seconds

National Scars

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
Identity and Values
Truth
18/04/2023
37 minutes 10 seconds

Truth

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

Identity and Values
Introduction
11/04/2023
32 minutes 17 seconds

Introduction

The necessity of this project and social processes behind it. Thematic elements of the radio program. Core values. National and human values. The uniqueness of Armenian identity. Values as factors of building human identity. National interests and ideology. Transmitting the national identity and values as an educational program.

  • Speaker: Fr. Mesrop Aramian
  • Host: Deacon Vardan Aslanyan
Identity and Values