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About CCP

Compassionate Children Program

As initiated by The D. H. Chen Foundation and curated by the School of Everyday Life, the Compassionate Children Program (CCP) has been successively implemented in P1 to P3 in two Seed Schools and four Partner Schools since January 2020. CCP is a collaborative project involving local school teachers and various experiential learning partners, aiming at developing a compassion-based life education curriculum that can be integrated into school subjects like Chinese Language, General Studies, Visual Arts, Physical Education, and Religion, etc.

About CCP

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Cultivating Compassion Through Personal Encounters

We offer a variety of experiences that are rich in emotions and encourage thinking about life values in order to cultivate children's awareness of, thus responsibility towards, the inner self, others, the environment and the world.

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Reconnecting Learning and Everyday Life

We value the human sensory-affective as well as cognitive abilities. By implementing a diversity of explorative and hands-on activities, children are encouraged to connect subject knowledge with their daily lives, enabling them to experience and then act out of compassion in a personal yet broad-minded manner.

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Connected Thinking and Decision-making

We let children dig into their interdependent relationship within the world, probing them to further investigate the rippling effects of their behaviors. In so doing, we seek to develop a far-sighted and holistic perspective that embraces differences in worldviews and values.

Our pedagogical approach

Collaborative Learning

We seek to develop children's awareness and understanding of themselves as well as those of others through face-to-face interactions.

Nurturing Compassion in Children

We seek to nurture children to become a compassionate agent in action through fostering their abilities in empathic understanding and deliberative action. In pedagogical terms, our compassion-based lessons can be characterized by the following elements:

Create experience, nurture active acquisition

Embody value education; in learning experiences of doing, practices, and sensory perceptions.

Cross-subject learning connecting subject teaching with life education

We work closely with our experiential learning partners and school subject teachers in order to integrate compassion-based life education into subject curricula.

Connectedness with daily life in support of personal growth

We seek to enhance children's perceptivity and understanding of their surroundings by pinpointing the relevance of classroom learning to their daily lives.

Caring and Respectful Dialogue

We encourage children to speak up and to listen to others; we utilize progressive inquiry strategies and imagination exercises to enhance their thinking skills.

Collaborative Learning

We seek to develop children's awareness and understanding of themselves as well as those of others through face-to-face interactions.

Nurturing Compassion in Children

We seek to nurture children to become a compassionate agent in action through fostering their abilities in empathic understanding and deliberative action. In pedagogical terms, our compassion-based lessons can be characterized by the following elements:

Create experience, nurture active acquisition

Embody value education; in learning experiences of doing, practices, and sensory perceptions.

Cross-subject learning connecting subject teaching with life education

We work closely with our experiential learning partners and school subject teachers in order to integrate compassion-based life education into subject curricula.

Connectedness with daily life in support of personal growth

We seek to enhance children's perceptivity and understanding of their surroundings by pinpointing the relevance of classroom learning to their daily lives.

Caring and Respectful Dialogue

We encourage children to speak up and to listen to others; we utilize progressive inquiry strategies and imagination exercises to enhance their thinking skills.

Collaborative Learning

We seek to develop children's awareness and understanding of themselves as well as those of others through face-to-face interactions.

Compassionate Sensibility

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  • Be sensitive to the inner voice
  • Be an attentive and empathetic listener
  • Be empathetic and be able to care for self as well as for others

Compassionate Thinking

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  • Be observant of the interconnectedness of all things
  • Be far-sighted and mindful of the possible consequences of one's action
  • Be thoughtful of our influence upon others and the community

Compassionate Action

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  • Be caring and deliberative in action
  • Be able to revise one's way of living with good intentions and prudence.
  • Be creative, broad-minded and open-hearted in our encounters in the world
Curriculum Development

Adaptive Integration of Life Education into School Subjects

Children are invited to experience and appreciate compassion on various sampling facets of daily life. These facets are organized into a theme-based curriculum with four topics, on which relevant educative activities are adaptively designed in order to be integrated into various subjects, in correspondence to specific goals of different participating schools.

Four curriculum topics：Nature, Agri-Food, Community, Citizenship

Compassionate Classrooms

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Community Development

CCP Co-learning Community of Educators

CCP is a collective effort committed to engage school teachers and experiential learning partners from a variety of professions in order to collaboratively develop curricula and host professional development workshops on life education. A variety of activities will be held in the future to bring together educators and community members who are interested in teaching and learning compassion in classrooms of all subjects. It is our hope to extend our support to more teachers in their classroom practices and, in the long run, initiate systematic changes in the teaching and learning of life education.

Contact Us

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