Baseera

Baseera Institute, a leading institution in educational and pedagogical training and consultancy in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, utilizes internationally accredited programs and high-level professionals to prepare individuals and educational institutes for facilitating philosophical thinking through P4C approach as a basis for developing teaching and learning tools, curriculum, and educational environment.

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Our Story

We started in 2011 as a pioneering project by introducing teaching and learning philosophical thinking as an enriching activity. We conducted many workshops targeting different age groups in a period of five years, until 2018, when Baseera was established as an institution for educational and pedagogical consultancy, becoming the only certified institution for accrediting (P4C) facilitators across the Arab world in cooperation with our international partner, DialogueWorks, at both foundational and advanced levels. In 2021, Baseera participated in the first philosophy conference in Saudi Arabia. Moreover, Baseera provided a two-year comprehensive program to support diological education for teachers in the Emirati school in the UAE in cooperation with the Ministry of Education. In 2022, in cooperation with the curriculum development team at the Ministry of Education of UAE Baseera offered a one-year comprehensive program to develop the curriculum of the UAE schools. Furthermore, Baseera established the Level Three accreditation program and participated in the Riyadh International Philosophy Conference for two consecutive years 2021-2022. In 2022, Baseera training center for philosophical thinking, diological curriculum development, and tools for diological learning and teaching was launched.

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Our Vision

To be the leading professional reference across the Arab world for teaching and learning philosophical thinking.

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Our Mission

Supporting and promoting P4C dialogical learning and teaching methodology through accrediting educational institutions and individuals and developing learning tools, curriculum, and educational environment.

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Our Goals

1. Enhancing cognitive abilities through learning metacognitive habits (such as philosophical reasoning and inquiry, conceptual thinking.. Ets) and integrating them in diological teaching and learning methodologies. 2. Promoting philosophical teaching strands (such as reflection, appreciation of virtues, and so on) in teaching and learning approaches. 3. Cultivating a strong sense of community of inquiry wihtin educational environments, including social diological skills such as tolerance, openness to criticism, acceptance, willingness to admit mistakes, rationality, self-control, and making oneself available to others.

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A word from the founder

I began the journey as a mother of five wonderful children. Motherhood strengthened my belief in the value of self-learning and stimulating reflection with my beloved family. Then, my university major directed my attention to the value of stimulating moral reasoning as a fundamental goal for education. Therefore, I made dialogical teaching and learning and philosophical thinking the center of my focus in developing my career as an educational consultant. Meeting my dream specialization: Philosophy for Children (P4C) And now, after ten years of learning, working, and gaining experience, I can say that I've found my passion, strength, inspiration, and role in spreading P4C education professionally in the Arab world. P4C is a revolutionary model for the educational process. It brings a qualitative shift not only in arousing interest and desire in learners by giving back children the gift of questioning, but also in balancing the relationship between the teacher and the learner. Thus, it reduces the accumulated gap in their hierarchical relationship and creates an environment where education and learning are integral parts of the same continuous human experience. In my beloved country, where development in all fields is happening at an unprecedented pace, it's time to transition to the dialogical education model offered by philosophical thinking, with all its distinctive features and constructive potential. As the first expert in this field in the Arabic language, I can confidently say that I am taking sincere, ambitious, and accomplished steps towards change by driving the facilitation wheel instead of traditional education. I aim to provide internationally accredited programs to train the highest caliber of professionals in facilitating Philosophy for Children (P4C) in Arabic.

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Certified and licensed programs from various local and global authorities

As an entity of international expertise and local certification, we are proud of exporting our global high-end experience of Arabic identity to the Arab world, granting locally and internationally certified accreditations.

Baseera's philosophical thinking education programs are internationally accredited by DialogueWorks organization that offers training, support and sources for a richer education experience.

Baseera's programs for teaching philosophical thinking are part of the global UNESCO network that encourages children to participate in communities of inquiry. We take pride in our partnership with the UNESCO Chair for Philosophy with Children at Nantes University in France.

As an entity of international expertise and local certification, we are proud of exporting our global high-end experience of Arabic identity to the Arab world, granting locally and internationally certified accreditations.

As an entity of international expertise and local certification, we are proud of exporting our global high-end experience of Arabic identity to the Arab world, granting locally and internationally certified accreditations.

What do we provide?

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Certified Programs

'Baseera Institute' offers, both on-site and online, locally and globally accredited training programs specialized in teaching and facilitating philosophical thinking in the Arabic language. Some of these programs follow a multi-level track for those looking to advance in the field of philosophical facilitation.
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Accredited Qualification Programs in Philosophical Facilitation

Accredited programs to enrich the professional and personal expertise of the facilitators.
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Academic Programs

'Baseera Institute' provides, both on-site and online, training programs and lectures in teaching philosophy topics as well as programs that enhance critical thinking skills. These programs are presented by specialized academics in philosophy from across the Arab world.
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Workshops

'Baseera Institute' provides, both on-site and online, various practical and dialogue-based workshops and programs in the style and methodology of teaching and learning P4C philosophical thinking.
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Qualifying educational institutions

Preparing and training the staff in institutions and providing consultations for curriculum development by integration with dialogical methods and philosophical thinking (P4C) in teaching and learning.
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Consultancy

For the purpose of enhancing the educational process (educational environment, curriculum, tools of teaching and learning), We at 'Baseera Institute' are committed to continuously support those who participated in any of our programs by providing consultations in Arabic on the methodology of P4C for teaching and learning philosophical thinking—both in person and remotely, extending beyond the training period
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Publications

'Baseera Institute' is the first and only specialized entity in the Arab world in providing P4C approach. Therefore, we are dedicated to publishing high-standard content in the field.