Pathways Step Ahead
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Chapters
Truth Trail: Walking The Straight Path
Colours, a song about owning up, and a king who turns away the daughter who tells him the truth introduce honesty as something that takes courage and then sets you free.
Duty Street: Carrying The Weight
On Responsibility Street everyone carries an invisible backpack, and the tale of Everybody, Somebody and Nobody shows what happens when each person waits for someone else to act.
Union Bridge: Crossing Together
Sayings gathered from around the world and a youth anthem sung by students of many countries show that unity does not mean becoming the same, but standing side by side while respecting differences.
Grace Gate: Opening To Courtesy
From thanking a friend to staying calm when you are certain you are right, this chapter presents courtesy as respect put into everyday words and gestures.
Charity Lane: Raising People Up
Stone Soup, a neighbour left to manage alone after surgery and a song about homelessness ask what it costs to notice someone who needs help.
Sentiments Road: Walking In Another’s Shoes
Blind men each describing one part of an elephant, and a reminder that people everywhere feel the same joys and sorrows, teach empathy as seeing more than your own piece of the story.
Pathways Values in Action 1
A comprehensive character education textbook for Grade 7 students. Explores core values including integrity, empathy, responsibility, and respect through real-world scenarios and interactive activities.
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Chapters
Walking the Honest Way
Through short stories, dialogues and a self-check quiz, this chapter shows why telling the truth — even when it is uncomfortable — is what builds trust between people.
Navigating the Road of Duty
A bored prince's search for meaning opens a look at the duties we owe ourselves, our families, our society and our environment, and at confronting problems instead of escaping them.
Journeying Through Just Acts
A ruler who takes only his equal share of cloth, and a group of friends who spread fairness through their town, introduce justice as equal treatment and respect for everyone's rights.
Building Bridges of Unity
A chance meeting between two rival table-tennis players and a dialogue between friends explore how diversity and unity complete each other rather than conflict.
The Golden Path of Respect
Roger Federer's quiet celebration after beating a rival, and families caring for ageing grandparents, show respect as something owed to opponents, elders, ourselves and the natural world.
Pathways Values in Action 2
An advanced character education textbook for Grade 8 students. Builds on foundational values with deeper exploration of ethical dilemmas, critical thinking, and real-world decision making.
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Chapters
Generous Walks of Altruism
The old almsgiving stones, where help was left anonymously, and students organising their own giving, present altruism as generosity that protects the dignity of the person receiving it.
Gratitude Along the Way
From thanking a cashier to a peasant who learns to value his crowded one-room house, this chapter treats gratitude as noticing the effort and the blessings behind everyday things.
Understanding Through Empathy
Nala's first weeks at a school in a new country, and the tales of Nasruddin, teach empathy as listening and imagining another person's situation before judging it.
Steps of Trustworthiness
A radio programme answering listeners' letters examines how trust is slowly earned through reliability, truthfulness and accountability, and how quickly hypocrisy destroys it.
Compassionate Pathways
This chapter maps the different forms love takes — family, friendship, compassion for strangers — and uses Mr. Thompson's story to show love proved by deeds rather than words.
Pathways Choices and Challenges 1
The capstone character education textbook for Grade 9 students. Focuses on values-based decision making, moral reasoning, leadership development, and preparing students to make a lasting positive impact.
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Chapters
Self-Awareness
Beginning in front of a mirror and ending with the Japanese practice of kaizen, this chapter asks students to look past appearance to the emotions and values that make up who they are.
Curiosity
The Wright brothers' childhood toy helicopter and a reading on the sense of wonder present curiosity as the habit of asking questions and testing ideas instead of accepting things at face value.
Diligence
The Apollo 13 crew calculating their engine burns by hand, alongside Longfellow's poem on a life of action, present diligence as sustained focus that paces itself rather than burning out.
Care
Oscar Wilde's The Happy Prince and a house that keeps running after its family has gone raise care for family, for strangers and for the natural world, and how to repair broken communication.
Courage
The rescue of thirty-three miners trapped in Chile, set beside the ordinary fear of an audition, separates courage — acting despite fear — from simply not being afraid.
Positive Outlook
Rumi's lines on beauty, Nick Vujicic's life and a cast of optimists and pessimists show how the thoughts a person chooses shape both what they notice and what they do.
Pathways Choices and Challenges 2
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Chapters
Communication
A poem about language and pain, and people who reached others with almost no words at all, show that most of what we communicate is tone, body language and whether our actions match what we say.
Collaboration
A symphony, John Donne's No Man Is an Island and the arithmetic of three separate ones becoming a hundred and eleven show how working together multiplies what people can do alone.
Open-mindedness
Edison's thousands of failed filaments and a new classmate everyone misjudges present open-mindedness as pausing to question an assumption and treating failure as information.
Citizenship
A student proposing a community garden at a youth forum, and a school arguing over a mural, present citizenship as taking responsibility for shared space rather than as holding a passport.
Perseverance
Jack Ma's thirty job rejections and Maya's run through a cold morning rain show perseverance as carrying on after the effort has stopped feeling rewarding.
Accountability
A student presenting his own progress to his parents, and an athlete owning up to damage nobody saw him cause, present accountability as answering for what you do — mistakes included.
