Higher education is arguably critical for healing and stabilization in postconflict contexts, by developing leaders who value peace and have the skill sets to achieve it in various sectors. A rapidly growing body of literature concludes that peace education in particular has great potential to transform postconflict communities, both in higher education and at other levels of schooling. Yet there exists little rigorous analysis of the decisions faced by educational leaders responsible for implementing such programs, particularly those in postconflict settings where the needs are uniquely challenging. This qualitative investigation documented the M.A. in Peace Studies and Conflict Transformation program, managed by the Centre for Conflict Management (CCM) within the University of Rwanda’s College of Arts and Social Sciences (CASS), one of the first of its kind in the region. The goal of this study was to use interviews and field notes collected during a six-week fieldwork period to highlight lessons from the experiences and perspectives of colleagues who have typically been on the outskirts of the conversation about how formalized peace education can contribute to leadership development and national stability. Participants included faculty members, administrators, and alumnae, as well as leaders affiliated with the Rwandan Ministry of Education (MINEDUC) and various civil society organizations. The study led to twelve key findings aligned with the three research questions, each of which is similarly aligned with a corresponding discourse theme and three clusters of interview questions, as well as three related overarching researcher recommendations for policy and practice, grounded in participant perspectives. Abstract (French) On peut soutenir que l’enseignement supérieur est essentiel pour la guérison et la stabilisation dans les contextes d’après-conflit, en formant des leaders qui attachent de la valeur à la paix et possèdent les compétences nécessaires pour l’atteindre dans divers secteurs. Un corpus de littérature en croissance rapide conclut que l’éducation à la paix, en particulier, a un grand potentiel pour transformer les communautés après un conflit, à la fois dans l’enseignement supérieur et à d’autres niveaux de scolarité. Cependant, il existe peu d'analyses rigoureuses des décisions des responsables de l'éducation chargés de la mise en œuvre de tels programmes, en particulier dans les situations d'après-conflit où les besoins sont particulièrement difficiles. Cette enquête qualitative documentait le programme de maîtrise en études sur la paix et la transformation des conflits, géré par le Centre de gestion des conflits (CCM) du Collège des arts et des sciences sociales de l’Université du Rwanda (CASS), un des premiers du genre dans la région. L’objectif de cette étude était d’utiliser les interviews et les notes de terrain recueillies au cours d’une période de travail sur le terrain de six semaines pour mettre en évidence les leçons tirées des expériences et des points de vue de collègues qui se trouvaient généralement à la périphérie de la discussion sur la manière dont une éducation à la paix formalisée pouvait contribuer au développement du leadership. et la stabilité nationale. Parmi les participants figuraient des membres du corps professoral, des administrateurs et des anciennes élèves, ainsi que des dirigeants affiliés au Ministère rwandais de l'éducation (MINEDUC) et à diverses organisations de la société civile. L'étude a abouti à douze résultats clés alignés sur les trois questions de recherche, chacune correspondant également à un thème de discours correspondant et à trois groupes de questions d'entretien, ainsi qu'à trois recommandations de recherche globales relatives à la politique et à la pratique, basées sur les perspectives des participants.

Yes / This chapter focuses on important dimension of peace education, the effort to foster qualities and skills for engaging constructively with conflict. Peace education and environmental education have many affinities. It concerns transforming violent or unpeaceful relationships into peaceful ones. The chapter examines several strategies for supporting these aspects of education in elementary schools. It introduces three areas of practice within Conflict Resolution Education cooperative learning, peer mediation, and restorative justice before offering a brief comment on some wider issues that educators might consider in this area of work. The chapter discuses the connection between peace education and environmental education via a shared concern with violent, unpeaceful relationships including our relationship with the natural world and the necessary effort to establish more peaceful, nurturing relationships. It also addresses the environmental problems that are the concern of this book climate change, biodiversity loss, soil erosion, there is a need to critically re-examine our relationship with nature.

No / In this paper, we argue that two key trends – an unfolding ecological crisis and a reduction in the amount of (cheap) energy available to society – bring into question both the relevance and the resilience of existing educational systems, requiring us to rethink both the content and the form of education in general, and peace education in particular. Against this background, we consider the role education might play in enabling citizens and societies to adapt peacefully to conditions of energy descent and a less benign ecological system, taking seriously the possibility that there will be fewer resources available for education. Drawing on Wes Jackson’s and Wendell Berry’s concept of an education in ‘homecoming’, and on E.F. Schumacher’s concept of ‘appropriate technology’, we suggest a possible vision of peace education. We propose that such education might be focused around ‘appropriate knowledge’, commitment to place, and an understanding of the needs and characteristics of each local context. We then consider an example of what this might mean in practice, particularly under conditions of increasing resource scarcity: Permaculture education in El Salvador, we suggest, illustrates the characteristics and relevance of an education that aims to foster ‘appropriate knowledge’ within a particular and very challenging context. The paper concludes by considering the wider implications of our argument.

This thesis applies securitisation theory to the Israeli-Palestinian case with a particular focus on the potential for desecuritisation processes arising from Israeli-Palestinian cooperation/coexistence efforts in peace education and water management. It aims to apply securitisation theory in general and the under-employed concept of desecuritisation in particular, to explore the limits and prospects as a theoretical framework. Concepts, arguments and assumptions associated with the securitisation theory of the Copenhagen School are considered. In this regard, the thesis makes a contribution to Security Studies through its application of securitisation theory and sheds light on a complex conflict situation. Based on an analytical framework that integrates the concept of desecuritisation with the concepts of peace-building and peace-making, the thesis pays attention to desecuritisation moves involving Israeli and Palestinian civil societies through peace education and water management. The thesis contributes to debates over the problems and prospects of reconciliation between Israelis and Palestinians, so making a significant empirical and theoretical contribution in the development of the concept of desecuritisation as a framework for analysing conflict resolution. The thesis develops an analytical framework that combines political level peace-making with civil society actors' peace-building efforts. These are seen as potential processes of desecuritisation; indeed, for desecuritisation to occur. The thesis argues that a combination of moves at both the political and societal levels is required. By contrast to securitisation processes which are mainly initiated by political andlor military elites with the moral consent of society (or 'audience' in Copenhagen School terms), processes of desecuritisation, especially in cases of protracted conflicts, go beyond the level of elites to involve society in cultural and structural peace-building programmes. Israeli-Palestinian peace education and water management cases are employed to illustrate this argument.

Whereas reconciliation in Cambodia has mostly received academic attention in terms ofanalyzing state-institutions, this thesis explores the role of civil society actors. Of particularinterest is the impact, grass-root efforts can have on promoting an inclusive group identitythrough educational means. This will be researched through the analysis of attitudes towardselements of an inclusive group identity held by pre-service teachers, who were interviewedbefore and after they took part in a so-called genocide education workshop organized by theDocumentation Center of Cambodia. These attitudes will be examined in terms of theirjustifications, and if the workshop influenced their quantity as well as quality. In addition, bytaking into account justifications of attitudes supporting an inclusive group identity, threecommon denominators will be identified that can help strengthening the impact of futureeducational efforts within the framework of reconciliation. Of particular interest in this regardwill be the finding highlighting the relation of functionalist perception of perpetrators thatproofed to be supportive of the interviewees` acceptance of an inclusive group identity.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-27T14:32:47Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Silmara Rascalha Casadei.pdf: 6035425 bytes, checksum: dca11591d7a3ce09452a689ecc435abd (MD5) Previous issue date: 2010-05-27 / The following study aims at identifying subsidies for an integrated curriculum, from the point of view of those teachers who participated on the Peace Volunteers Project, which was developed in an independent school in the city of Santo André, São Paulo recognised by the UNESCO Programme of Associated Schools. Using as a metaphor the image of a kaleidoscope, it shows ten years of the project. It also presents the theories in the light of the scholars from the University of La Cornunã, Jurjo Torres Santomé who has developed in depth research on the theme, the main guidance of UNESCO for the education in the XXI Century, besides some reflections of Abramowics, Apple and Beane, Bernstein, Freire, Sacristan, Bruner, Machado, among other scholars of relevant importance. Teachers opinions and ideas were analysed bearing in mind a qualitative approach and all the data collected were supported by the researched theories. To promote the discussion between practice and theory in the light of an integrated curriculum, the study shows that some aspects such as the importance of the life history of the teacher, the interdisciplinary meetings, the local and global context and the intention of the education for the peace among men and the environment are necessary points of view that can subsidize an integrated curriculum / O presente estudo busca a identificação de subsídios para um currículo integrado, a partir do olhar dos professores participantes do Projeto Voluntários da Paz, projeto esse desenvolvido em uma instituição particular de ensino da cidade de Santo André, no estado de São Paulo e reconhecido pelo PEA- Programa das Escolas Associadas da UNESCO. Utilizando como metáfora a imagem de um caleidoscópio, o estudo revela o percurso dos dez anos do projeto. Apresenta as luzes teóricas do catedrático da Universidade de La Coruña, Jurjo Torres Santomé que desenvolveu pesquisas aprofundadas sobre a temática, as principais orientações da UNESCO para a educação no século XXI, além das reflexões de Abramowicz, Apple e Beane, Bernstein, Freire, Sacristan, Bruner, Machado, dentre outros teóricos de igual relevância. Os depoimentos dos professores foram analisados diante de uma abordagem qualitativa e os dados coletados buscaram amparo na teoria pesquisada. Ao propor e discutir a articulação entre a prática e a teoria com vistas a um currículo integrado, o estudo demonstra que alguns aspectos tais como a valorização das histórias de vidas dos docentes, os encontros interdisciplinares, o contexto local e global e a intencionalidade da educação para a paz entre os homens e destes com o meio ambiente são olhares necessários que podem subsidiar um currículo integrado

O conflito presente desde sempre nas relações humanas é, geralmente, confundido com violência ou agressão. Contrário a este sentido, o presente estudo se propõe a analisar o caráter positivado do conflito, de modo a considerá-lo um ato que venha a educar os indivíduos, gerar neles a capacidade de construir, edificar ações, atitudes e pensamentos de positividade. Participar ativamente das questões que ocorrem na sociedade de maneira ética, clara, crítica e reflexiva. Assim, o compreende como o cerne da vida democrática e o ato educativo como seu desenvolvimento. Para tal, analisa três pilares pedagógicos acerca do humano: autonomia, liberdade e alteridade. Em consequência, vê que o indivíduo, na conquista destes pilares, assume o processo consciente e dialógico que os precede sobre as questões que o envolvem num determinado estado conflitivo, a partir de um processo pedagógico progressista. Trata-se de uma pesquisa bibliográfica e qualitativa, de cunho fenomenológico-hermenêutico que busca analisar, interpretar e compreender os textos decodificados em si mesmos. A investigação se pauta em uma consciência crítica e reflexiva sobre as ações e atitudes do ser na atual sociedade, com ênfase na sociedade brasileira. Não se trata de um estudo de constatações empíricas, ele percorre o mundo das palavras e nelas se forma e apresenta verificações específicas e reflexivas ao objeto de estudo. O estudo avalia o Brasil, enquanto um país de conflitos velados esboçando um quadro histórico, político, pedagógico e educacional do país. Constata que a Pedagogia do Conflito possibilita ao indivíduo o valor de perceber os movimentos que ocorrem na sociedade, de maneira a inserir-se neles conscientemente por meio de um constante diálogo; autônomo, liberto e altero para consigo e para com o outro. Constata que o Brasil apresenta um sistema social gerido por uma hierarquia que conduz, dita regras e afirmações desde suas bases de formação. / The present conflict since always in human relations is, usually, confused with violence or aggression. Contrary to this sense, the present article intends to analyze the positive character of the conflict, in order to consider it an act which will come to educate individuals, create on them the capacity to construct, build actions, attitudes and positive thoughts. Actively participate of those questions that occur in society in an ethical manner, clear, critical and reflective. Thus, it includes as core of the democratic life, the educative act as its development. For this end, analyzes three pedagogical pillars about the human: autonomy, freedom and alterity. In consequence, sees that the individual, on the achievement of these pillars, assumes the conscious process e dialogical that precede about the questions that surround him in a certain conflictive state, starting from a progressive biological process. It is a bibliographic and qualitative research, phenomenalogic-hermeneutic imprint that searches to analyze, interpret and comprehend the texts decode in it. The investigation is guided in a critic and reflexive conscious about the actions and attitudes of being in the present society, with emphasis in the Brazilian society. This study is not about empirical findings, it travels the world of words an in it, takes form and presents specific and reflexive verifications to the object of study. The study assesses Brazil, as a country of veiled conflicts drafting an historical, political, pedagogical and educational frame of the country. It notes that the Pedagogic of Conflict enables the individual the value of realize the movements that occur on the society, in order to insert into them consciously by a path of a frequent dialogue; autonomous, free, change to him and to the other. It notes that Brazil presents a social system managed by a hierarchy that leads, said rules and statements from their basis of formation.

This study aimed to examine the relationship between empathy-related constructs of English instructors at Atilim University Preparatory School and certain demographic features such as age, gender, educational background, and experience. The scale which consists of a demographic inventory, a questionnaire, and a semi-structured interview were developed by the researchers. The scale consists of &quot / Interpersonel Reactivity Index (IRI)&quot / . The results of the questionnaire were analyzed through SPSS 15.0. This data gathering instrument was implemented on 90 English instructors working at Atilim University Preparatory School. The results of the interviews were analyzed tghrough content analysis. The result of the study revealed that there is a relationship between perspective-taking and empathic concern tendencies of English instructors and their age and experience.

The field of peace education presently remains undertheorized suffusing praxis and pedagogy as foundation within the edifices of dissembling postModernity marked within the Institute of Rationality. (Re)imag(e)(in)ing critical pedagogy in a peace education-to-come, enjoins readers/writers along a putative journey through the violence of metaphysics in the fundamental question of difference bridging chiastic ethico-philososphical terrain, reconceptualizing pedagogical endeavour in ethicus obligatus to the other towards a renewing peace literacy within academe. Peace education can reconstitute the force of community on planes of difference unfolding socialis aequitus and peace, reframing the nature of our being, self and other as the appositional realm of separation/connection. The opening of peace, as concept, ethos, through critical pedagogy in/by the fashioning of discursive forms acknowledging the semio-theoretical chain constructing human social relationality proffers a solid theoretical foundation for the field of peace education, re-tracing difference across socio-ethno-politico-historical structures. Central tenets of the evolving field of peace education are reconfigured in deontological proposition through deconstruction as precursorial project in reason affording performative discourse transversing the transcendental signified, peace, in another idiom eclipsing spatio-temporal illusion, affording diachronous affirmation and revelation in a crucial luminous snapshot within the post-conflict setting of Northern Ireland concerning fundamental matters of peace and education. Peace education as constituent element of contemporary peace knowledges and principal arena for education for peace within the unconditional university is fundamentally challenged in a commitment to peace literacy to adduce and address all interwoven questions of difference, justice, peace, and education within academe. A new beginning compels another reading in presence honouring the other and Other in ethico-philosophico-pedagogy radically questioning our individual and collective rationality in relation to understandings of human social relationality and the transperformative tenets of peace education in difference through différance, cathecting presence anew while (re)configuring academe primarily concerned with difference, peace, and social justice as discursis unfolding impossibility. Consequently, the order of phallogocentricism and its sponsoring patriarchal institution that would sublimate a discourse on/of difference in substitution, as the same irrupts in the fissure another perspectivity opening through presence, presence in meaning, presence in spatiality, presence in temporality in the impossibility of the limit.

Twenty-first-century competencies have been identified as vital thinking and working skills for the 21st century. Students could contribute to social change by using information and communication technology (ICT) while developing 21st-century competencies, but this type of experience is not frequent at schools. The purpose of this qualitative case study was to examine the experiences of 2 middle-school teachers and their 6th-grade students as they used critical literacy strategies and ICT to promote 21st-century competencies and critical democracy in a Midwestern public school. This case study was guided by the critical democracy, critical pedagogy, and competency-based education theories. The research questions asked what the experiences of the teachers and the students were, what were the reflections of the teachers about their teaching practices, and what were the students’ reflections about their learning experiences. Data were gathered through interviews, students’ online discussion forums, and artifacts. An adapted analytic induction process was used to analyze the data and explain the phenomenon. The key findings generally supported the framework developed by the Partnership for 21st Century Learning (P21), which is a coalition of businesses, education leaders, and policymakers whose goal is to promote 21st-century competencies in schools. However, the findings indicated that when applying the P21 Framework for social change purposes, an international human rights perspective needs to be added. This study demonstrated how students can develop 21st-century competencies through the implementation of ICT to address injustice and inequity in society and contribute to positive social change.