Peace Education

LUCELE D. PASINAG, MAED-EM

INTEGRATING PEACE EDUCATION IN THE PRESENT CURRICULUM

“Without an integrated understanding of life, our individual and collective problems will only deepen and extend. The purpose of education is not to produce mere scholars, technicians and job hunters, but integrated men and women who are free of fear; for only between such human beings can there be enduring peace.

* J. Krishnamurti

Facets of Peace Education

I. Knowledge

* Conflict

* Students should study a variety of contemporary conflict situations from the personal to the global and attempts made to resolve them.

* Peace

* Students should study different concepts of peace, both as a state of being and as an active process, on scales from the personal to the global.

* War

* Students should explore some of the key issues and ethical dilemmas to do with conventional war.

* Nuclear Issues

* Students should learn about a wide range of nuclear issues and be aware of the key viewpoints on defence and disarmament.

* Justice

* Students should study a wide range of situations illustrating injustice.

* Power

* Students should study issues to do with power in the world today.

* Gender

* Students should study issues on discrimination based on gender.

* Race

* Students should study issues to do with discrimination based on race.

* Environment

* Students should have a concern for the environment welfare of all the natural systems on which they depend.

* Futures

* Students should study a range of alternative futures, both probable and preferable.

II. Attitudes

* Self-respect

* Students will have a sense of their own worth and pride in their own particular social, cultural, and family background

* Respect for others

* Students will have the sense of the worth of others, particularly of those with social, cultural, and family backgrounds different from their...