Global Humanist Toolkit
Humanist education for the classroom, rooted in local life.
About the Toolkit
The Global Humanist Toolkit (GHT) is an educator guide for bringing Humanist thinking into the classroom. It is a set of 12 visual teaching resources that help learners ask good questions, weigh evidence, understand one another, and act with fairness and compassion.
Every resource uses examples from everyday community life, such as a neighbour's claim about a new seed, a shared well in the dry season, or a rumour in the market. The ideas feel familiar and can be adapted to any classroom. The Toolkit is supported by Humanists International and developed with HALEA.
Who it is for?
Teachers, trainers, youth leaders and humanist organisations who work with learners and want practical, discussion-ready tools. No special background in humanism is needed.
What is Inside?
- Thinking with Evidence: How Do We Know What Is True?
- Opinion vs Fact
- The Evidence Ladder
- Cause, Effect and the Trap of Coincidence
- How Science Changes Its Mind
- Understanding Information: Who Benefits?
- Identifying Bias in Information
- Ethics and Empathy: The Golden Question: How Would I Feel?
- Doing Good Because It Matters
- Rights, Responsibilities, and Me: Drawing on the Ubuntu Philosophy, "I Am Because We Are."
- Identity and Belonging: Two Maps of Beliefs Resources Showing that Questioning One Belief Does Not Change All of Who You Are.
- Shared Values: Shared Ethics for Everyone: Which Answers Common Myths About secular and Humanist People.
- Disagreeing Respectfully: A Dialogue Guide
How Do We Know What Is True?
Opinion vs Fact
The Evidence Ladder
The Golden Question
Rights, Responsibilities, and Me
Identifying Bias in Information
Doing Good Because It Matters
A Map Of Beliefs
We Are More Than One Thing
Shared Ethics For Everyone
Cause, Effect & Coincidence
How Science Changes Its Mind
Disagreeing Respectfully: A Dialogue Guide
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Our Aims
- To help learners think critically, check claims, and tell fact from opinion.
- To build empathy, fairness and responsibility towards others.
- To show that curiosity and questioning can sit alongside culture, family and faith.
- To give educators ready-to-use material that works in different cultural settings.
Our Goals
- To place humanist education in classrooms and learning groups across Africa, Asia and South America︎.
- To support educators to adapt each resource to their own language, setting and community.
- ︎To encourage learners to practice these habits together, because truth-seeking grows stronger as a group.
How to use it
Choose one resource, read it aloud, and use its questions for discussion. Ask learners to bring their own local examples. Return to the resources often, since each skill grows with practice.
Acknowledgement
© Global Humanist Toolkit (GHT). Developed with HALEA. Supported by Humanists International.