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Can we teach peace? – Some reflections for a text on peace education using the internet
Can we teach peace? Each of these words should be examined. Can – able or granted permission. We – a teacher-students setting or all people. Teach – in schools, via media, by living, by example, … Peace? What is peace? The absence of war. An easy feeling. Lack of responsibility. Being whole. A world in order.
Is there a field of study known as peace education? Searching on ”Peace Education” on the internet leads to UNESCO’s holistic, constructivistic yin-yang symbol with teacher as learner (theory) and learner as teacher (curriculum).
http://www.un.org/cyberschoolbus/peace/home.asp
They define the aims of peace education is “to cultivate the knowledge, skills, and attitudes needed to achieve and sustain a global culture of peace.” A diagram at
http://www.un.org/cyberschoolbus/peace/frame.htm
contrasts violence – direct and indirect, with peace as the absence of personal and institutional violence and positive measures such as presence of wellbeing, social justice, gender equity, human rights.
There is a Peace Education Foundation that offers a catalog of curriculum and materials, correlates to state standards, and information on their history – organized in 1980, list of accomplishments and projects -
Education for Peace – http://www.efpinternational.org/ - the website of the International Education for Peace Institute – is “a comprehensive community development program dedicated to the establishment of an all-inclusive civilization of peace.”
I am looking for a source for the origin of the song “Down by the Riverside” (also see http://www.mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=58101) that includes “lay down sword and shield.” Jewish communities sing a version of the song that includes -
Lo yisah goi el goi cherev
Lo yilm’du od milchama
Nation shall not lift up sword against nation.
They shall not learn more war.
- ”from one of the best known phrases of the prophet Isaiah: “and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.” (Isaiah, Chapter 2, v 4.)”
http://www.jccathisnewmonth.org/5767/Tevet/tevetson1.asp
I did a search on “peace education” in the online catalog of the CSU system and found that peace education and peace studies were not listed. Military studies was also not listed, but military education has 235 citations in CONSULS – The Connecticut State University Library System.
So I looked into other related terms, such as intercultural & international education and cross-cultural education and found 4 books to review.
50) Title Rethinking multicultural education : case studies in cultural transition / edited by Carol Korn and Alberto Bursztyn ; foreword by Joe Kincheloe
Publisher Westport, Conn. : Bergin & Garvey, 2002
LC1099.3.R49 2002
papers from Brooklyn College, transformative multicultural education to overcome despair, individual case studies
51) Author Clayton, Jacklyn Blake Title One classroom, many worlds : teaching and learning in the cross-cultural classroom / Jacklyn Blake Clayton
Publisher Portsmouth, NH : Heinemann, c2003
orientations in a multicultural classroom – human nature, person-nature, time, activity – being is more important than doing, relational
52) Title Critical multicultural conversations / edited by Greg S. Goodman and Karen Carey
Publisher Cresskill, N.J. : Hampton Press, c2004
LC1099.3 .C75 2004
students of Peter McLaren, individual case studies of minority groups, deep culture concerns, laptop study – on what the students related to the machines and each other
53) Title Culturally proficient instruction : a guide for people who teach / Kikanza Nuri Robins … [et al]
Publisher Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Corwin Press, c2006
LC1099.3.C845 2006
includes as author, Dean Raymond Terrell from CSULA, now in Ohio, terrelr@muohio.edu
continuum towards cultural proficiency – page 3
cultural destructiveness
cultural incapacity
cultural blindness
cultual precompetence
cultural competence
cultural proficiency – holding esteem for culture, knowing how to learn about individual and organizational culture, interacting effectively in a variety of cultural environments
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