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Train the Teachers:Preparing teachers as peace
educators in classrooms
Stephanie Knox Cubbon
ETUCE Conference - Cyprus
May 17, 2013
Agenda• Why I came to peace education
• Why teachers?
• About Teachers Without Borders (TWB) and its
Peace Education Program (PEP)
• What we teach
• How we teach it
• Strategies and sample activities
• Questions and discussion
Article 9 Conference to Abolish
War
Japan 2008
Cora Weiss of Hague Appeal for Peace: “It’s time to abolish war.”
The role of teachers in promoting peace
“Since wars begin in the minds of men, it is in the
minds of men that the defenses of peace must be
constructed.”
-UNESCO Constitution
Peace can be learned (and taught)
We need teachers…
…who have peace education training
“Just as war begins in the minds of men, so does peace settle there. The same species who invented war is capable of inventing peace. The responsibility
lies within each one of us.”-Seville Statement on Violence
“Since war begins in the minds of men, it is up to UNESCO and the schools all over the world to put an
end to the beginning of war.”-Richard Muller
TWB mission:To connect teachers to information and each other to
create local change on a global scale
o Provide teacher professional development opportunities
online and offline
o Bring teachers together in virtual and face-to-face learning
communities
o Local initiatives with a global impact
TWB Programs• Certificate of Teaching Mastery
• Emergency Education
• Millennium Development Ambassadors Program
• Voice of Teachers (peer-review online journal)
• Country Programs (i.e. Nigeria, Mexico, China)
• Peace Education Program – October 2010
How the TWB PEP was born - 2010
Nigeria Costa Rica
Peace Education Program• Collaboratively developed from April-September
2010, launched October 2010
o Unit 1: History, Definitions, Key Thinkers, Core
Concepts
o Unit 2: Scope of Peace Education
o Unit 3: From Theory to Practice – Towards a
Peaceful Classroom, School and Community
• Intended for all educators and community leaders
worldwide
o Working with local partners to adapt the program
About the program• Theory + Self-Reflection + Practice/action
o What are the main theories and concepts of peace
education?
• Providing a strong theoretical foundation in peace
education pedagogy and principles
o How do these apply to my life as a human being?
• Promoting self-reflection and incorporation of
these principles into participants’ lives and work
o How do these apply to my teaching practice?
• Preparing teachers for practical application
• Overall goal: Contribute to a global culture of peace by
empowering teachers as agents of peaceful change in
their classrooms and communities
“…for educators to be in tune with the times
and to be able to respond to the demands of
current events, we must provide them with the
educational methods for transforming
consciousness, starting with their own, so that
they themselves can be examples of peace
and harmony. Indeed, how can we change
other people, if we do not start with
ourselves?”
-Pierre Weil, the Art of Living in Peace
What do we teach?Content
Part 1: Intro and Core Concepts
• History of Peace Education
• Definitions
• Core Concepts – Understanding Peace, Violence,
and Nonviolence
o Positive and Negative Peace, Physical and
Structural Violence – Johan Galtung
o Nonviolence – Gandhi, King, Sharp
o Peace Education as Transformative Practice
o Culture of Peace
o Inner and Outer Peace (new section)
Part 2: Scope of Peace Education
• Disarmament Education
• Education for and about Peace
• Critical Peace Education
• Human Rights Education
• Multicultural Education
• Gender and Peace Education
• Global Citizenship Education
• Conflict Resolution Education
• Environmental Education
• Futures Education
Part 3: Pedagogy and Practice
• Peace Education as Pedagogy (how we teach is as
– if not more – important than what we teach)
o Modeling peaceful behaviors
• Attributes of a Peace Educator
• Effective Communication
• The Art of Asking Questions
• Teaching and Learning Approaches
• Beyond Classroom Walls – Building a Culture of
Peace in Your School and Community
• Final Project – Peace Education in Action
Basic concepts• Peace can be learned and taught
• Peace education should be contextual, relevant to
the participants/learner
• Everyone in the peace education process is
teaching and learning (“edulearner” concept;
developing a horizontal rather than hierarchical
relationship) and it’s a lifelong learning process
• Power dynamics are important – critical peace
education (Freire)
• Holism – PE deals with the personal to the
global, past present and future
How do we teach it?Methods and Strategies
Offering the Program
• Free to download => 15,000+ downloads since Nov. 2010
• Offline workshops –US, Canada, Mexico, Uganda, DR Congo, Kenya, South Africao Average 4 days
• Online o Free self-paced version – Nixty.com
o Instructor-led version in partnership with National Peace Academy (US)
• 12 week-course
Uganda DR Congo
CanadaSouth Africa
Uganda– January 2011• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7_kxyRMGvA
&feature=player_embedded
• Peace clubs, radio programme, peace ed as core
subject
FIRD holding community dialogue meeting on peace education in Lira District
Building Community• Icebreakers, Dialogue, Listening, Sharing
Network of Mutuality• ”I am cognizant of the interrelatedness of all
communities and states. I cannot sit idly by in
Atlanta and not be concerned about what
happens in Birmingham. Injustice anywhere is a
threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an
inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single
garment of destiny. Whatever affects one
directly, affects all indirectly. Never again can we
afford to live with the narrow, provincial "outside
agitator" idea. Anyone who lives inside the United
States can never be considered an outsider
anywhere within its bounds.” – Martin Luther King Jr.
Self-Reflection• Peace Education Autobiography exercise - Why are
you here?
• Inner Peace Practices – How can you cultivate and
maintain your own inner peace? Self-care
• Setting a peace intentiono I go in peace to love the world. – Frank M.
o May my heart be open, clear, wise and courageous. – Karen R.
• Communication – Compassionate/nonviolent
communication
Definitions of Peace Education
1. Walk around the room and read the various definitions
2. Stop at the definition that resonates the most with you.
3. Speak with the other people who stop there. (Why did you choose this definition? What resonates with you? Why didn’t you choose the others? What elements of the other definitions did you like?)
4. Return to your seat and write your own definition of your understanding of peace education, and consider how this definition would guide your teaching, work, and life.
Creating a Zone of Peace
Zones of Peace – Louise Diamond
1. Make a conscious choice to establish a Zone of Peace.
2. Make a Peace Agreement based on the Four Principles of Peace (nonviolence, cooperation, community, peace starts with me)
3. Restore your Peace Agreement when it gets broken.
4. Declare yourself publicly as a Zone of Peace.
5. Surround yourself with people and things that support your Zone of Peace commitment.
6. Study peace and peacemaking to constantly enrich your Zone of Peace.
7. Connect with other Zones of Peace to support each other and grow the revolution.
Retrieved from http://www.thepeacecompany.com/peacelibrary/pdf/ZonesOfPeace.pdf
This “Classroom” is a Zone of Peace
1. Listen when someone is talking
2. Do not exclude anyone. (Include everyone)
3. Say only kind words.
4. Speak gently.
5. Show respect for each other.
Declare your classroom a zone of peace and establish
rules to achieve it.
Navarro-Castro, L. & Nario-Galace, J. (2008). Peace Education: Pathway to a
Culture of Peace. Quezon City: Miriam College. Retrieved from
http://www.peace-ed-campaign.org/resources/cpe-book-14oct2010-FINAL2.pdf
Tijuana – este aula es unazona de paz
Peace PledgeI pledge
In my daily life
In my family
My work
My community
My country
And my region to:
Listen to understand
Share with others
Preserve the planet
Rediscover solidarity
Reject violence
Respect all life.
(UNESCO Manifesto 2000, Retrieved from http://www3.unesco.org/manifesto2000/)
Reflecting on Violence• What kind of violence do you/your students
experience?(structural, physical, cultural, etc.)
• What are the root causes of this violence?
• What are actions we can take at the
individual/community/national/global level to
address this issue?
Staircase Model
From Learning to Abolish War, Hague Appeal for Peace
World Café Dialogue – Building the
World We Want -Futures Education1. What is your vision of the world in 50 years if we
carry on “business as usual”?
2. What is your ideal vision of the world in 50 years
(the world you would like to see)?
3. What can we do NOW (concrete actions) to
create that ideal vision of the future?
Tijuana wishes for a better future
Peace Education Resources
• Hague Appeal for PeacePeace Lessons from Around the WorldLearning to Abolish War
• Teaching Tolerance
• YES! Magazine
• International Institute for Economics and Peace (Building Blocks for Peace)
• Peace Education: A Pathway to a Culture of Peace by Loreta Navarro-Castro and Jasmin Nario-Galace
• Videos/TED Talkso Zoe Weil – The World Becomes What You Teach
o John Hunter- World Peace Game
o RSA Animate, Sir Ken Robinson – Changing Education Paradigms
Approaches to Peace Education in the Curriculum
Infusion- part of everything
(mainstreaming)
Separate subject
Integration- part of some areas
Identifying Entry Points• Find entry points in the learning competencies of
the basic education systemo Link subject objectives/standards to peace education
objectives
o Link subjects/topics to peace education themes/topics
If we leave peace education to “accidental teaching” or “teachable moments,” we may never get to it….
Recommended Reading:
Candace Carter, Peace Education Standards
UNICEF Peace Education Definition (Standards)
Infed, Curriculum Theory and Practice
Assignments and Final Applied Project
• Syllabi
• Lesson plans
• Workshop
• Adapting existing lesson plans/curricula
• Peace events
Peace walk for International Day of Peace, Liberia
Next steps• Course for educators on Nonviolence – Metta
Center for Nonviolence
• Peace Education in Trinidad & Tobago
• Online course with John Hopkins University (US)
• Chapter on our work in Saltillo (Mexico) in Peace
Education from the Grassroots book (2013)
Your “homework” • Commit (or recommit) to your own inner peace practice
• Create your own peace intention
• Write your peace education autobiography
• Learn as much as you can about peace (consider taking our online course!)
• Imagine your ideal future and take one concrete action now towards it
“If we could change ourselves, the tendencies in the world would also change. As a man changes his own nature, so does the attitude of the world change towards him. … We
need not wait to see what others do.”
-Gandhi
Thank you!Email: [email protected]
TWB Peace Educators Facebook Group:https://www.facebook.com/groups/141362325951107/
www.twb.org
www.mettacenter.org
www.nationalpeaceacademy.us
Practice-peace.com
Q & A• What questions do you still have about peace
education and training teachers?
• How might you apply some of the concepts in your
work/life/community?
• What are some challenges in integrating peace
education into your context?
• What possibilities do you see for applying or
expanding peace education in your community?