(2021). Determining the Effect of Peace Education on Knowledge and Attitude of Prospective Teachers: An Experimental Study. Bulletin of Education and Research, v43 n3 p47-66 Dec. Peace education contribute to promote peace by changing the thinking of people. Education is a tool to impart peace by changing the mind of people. Teacher can solve the problems of peace by developing the peaceful minds of youth through peace education. This study was conducted to determine the peace education's effect on knowledge and attitude of future teachers. It was a quantitative study and followed the quasi-experimental design i.e. A pretest posttest nonequivalent group design. Researchers develop two tools for data collection: A Test for Knowledge of Peace Education (TKPE) and a Scale for Peace Attitude (SPA). Five themes of peace education were selected to developed the TKPE and SPA, i.e. peace, conflict resolution, human rights, social justice, cultural diversity. A Test for Knowledge of Peace Education (TKPE) was developed by reviewing the literature. This objective type test comprised 25 Multiple Choice Questions (MCQs). The attitude scale consisted of 80 statements… [PDF]
(2024). Introducing Peacebuilding Philosophy to Language Teacher Education. Language Teaching Research Quarterly, v41 p81-98. Rebecca L. Oxford's contributions to academia extend well beyond language learning strategy research, for which she is well known, to embrace peace education in language classrooms. Inspired by her peace education philosophy, this study first describes the influence of Oxford's scholarly research in peace approach. Then, it presents a case study of five preservice teachers, all native Turkish speakers, who were guided to adopt the peace approach philosophy to develop creative teaching materials to be implemented in the "Practicum course." Throughout six hours of weekly lessons at a state middle school, the preservice teachers integrated peacebuilding activities into their English instruction. The analysis of the qualitative data from lesson plans, classroom observations, and reflective writings, revealed compelling findings. Preservice teachers who implemented peacebuilding activities showcased increased competence and awareness of peace education philosophy, and they… [PDF]
(2021). Saving Peace Education: The Case of Israel. Higher Education Studies, v11 n1 p18-27. In the divided society of Israel, educators committed to the future and the well-being of young people should incorporate peace education in all the dimensions of doing and learning in the educational system. While the formal educational system does not have a peace education policy, throughout the country, many schools undertake diverse practices of peace education. However, these practices have neither succeeded in changing students' attitudes and emotions about other groups members, nor have they succeeded in transforming conflictual relationships, between different social-ethnic-religious groups, into relationships of trust, understanding, and reciprocity. In this article, I review the accepted practices of peace education and suggest a potential explanation of the failure of these practices. The main purposes of the article are first to argue that many educators, who engage in peace education, aspire to cultivate tolerant, or even pluralistic relationships among the conflicting… [PDF]
(2021). Integrating Peace Education into English Language Teaching in Primary Schools. International Online Journal of Primary Education, v10 n2 p308-318. Peace education is a significant aspect of education as it aims to teach individuals to deal with violence and conflicts in a peaceful way. A literature review indicated that peace education can be integrated into English language teaching (ELT) and learned by students while they study English in middle and high schools and at universities, but how peace education can be integrated into ELT in primary schools has not been studied. Therefore, the present study aimed to find out whether peace education is integrated into the new English language teaching program (ELTP) for primary schools in Turkey and, if it is, how it is integrated into the ELTP. This work was designed as a qualitative study. The new ELTP for primary schools in Turkey was used as the data collection tool and data were subjected to content analysis. The findings of the study indicated that peace education is integrated into the new ELTP through the themes and/or language functions of the units in the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th… [PDF]
(2021). An Initiative to Introduce Peace Education in B.Ed. (Hons) Program. Bulletin of Education and Research, v43 n1 p229-246 Apr. Today, we are living in an era of violence and conflicts and many people have forgotten their values and norms that are essential for living peacefully in societies. Peace education is the only way to overcome these problems because it helps to enrich both social as well as cultural values of an individual, and a society as a whole. In order, for peace education to become a steady insertion and curriculum anticipation within schools, teachers must be well trained to reduce conflicts within the society. Therefore, integrating the concept of peace education in teachers' training institutions is very essential. For this purpose, the study used action research methodology to identify students understanding regarding the concept of peace education in B.Ed. (Hons) program. For this study, students were primary participants, whereas, teachers were secondary participants. The findings from this study revealed that peace education is not included implicitly in the B.Ed. (Hons) curriculum, nor… [PDF]
(2023). Integrating Ecumenism and Interreligious Dialogue in Peace Education in the Philippines from a Catholic Perspective. International Journal of Christianity & Education, v27 n2 p209-222 Jul. This study presents the importance of promoting interreligious dialogue and ecumenism in teaching peace education. It also discusses the applicability of selected papal documents for implementation in current interreligious education in Catholic and government schools in the Philippines. We explain the importance of interreligious dialogue and ecumenism from the Catholic Church documents Ut Unum Sint and Nostra Aetate. Then, we show the need for interreligious dialogue and ecumenism in achieving peace in this time when religion is misconstrued. Conclusions are given to lay out the need for interreligious dialogue and ecumenism to be integrated in peace education…. [Direct]
(2021). Teachers' Strategies of Everyday Diplomacy in Peace Education: A Case Study of the "Infrapolitics" of Peacebuilding in Greek-Cypriot Schools. Research in Comparative and International Education, v16 n1 p43-63 Mar. The aim of the article is to describe and analyze the strategies used by teachers in their everyday encounters with those who express concerns towards peace education–parents, colleagues, head teachers, and students. The analysis uses a theoretical framework that builds upon critical peace education and brings into conversation the notions of "everyday peace" and "everyday diplomacy." The data are drawn from a qualitative case study based on interviews with 25 Greek-Cypriot teachers participating in a peace education intervention. The findings show that everyday diplomatic strategies invented by teachers help create conditions under which this peace education intervention, as a form of everyday peace, can take place, although it is not clear to what extent these strategies challenge the long-term nature of concerns. The implications of the study highlight the need that teachers and policymakers engage with concerns towards peace education in productive, sensitive… [Direct]
(2023). What Can Be Learned from Looking for Gender Differences in Peace Education Data? Lessons from a Bah√°'√≠-Inspired Undergraduate Course. Journal of Peace Education, v20 n1 p95-119. Despite attention to the importance of the role of women in peacemaking, there is a curious gap in the peace education literature in gender differences research and study of the specific impact of peace education on girls and women. In this article, we explore some of the reasons for this trend and propose that looking for differences is important to maintain awareness of gendered experiences, the settings in which they exist, and those in which they are absent. Further, we suggest that the principles underpinning the approach to peace and peace pedagogies, in this case Bah√°'√≠ concepts of human nobility, the equality of women and men, and the oneness of humanity, and related discursive values, help to foster 'equal benefit' environments. We describe our exercise of disaggregating pre- and post-course responses from a Bah√°'√≠-inspired university peace education classroom of twenty students, findings of overall similarity, and particular themes in some women's responses. Finally, we… [Direct]
(2021). Reflections on Decolonizing Peace Education in Korea: A Critique and Some Decolonial Pedagogic Strategies. Teaching in Higher Education, v26 n2 p145-164. Universities and scholars around the world teach and research extensively in the field of peace education; yet, despite a plethora of diverse scholarship, educational programs are often critiqued as dominated by the English-speaking world. This paper employs the intersecting lenses of decolonization and postcolonial theory to explore and challenge the perceived dominance of Western literature and practice. Using a criss-crossing comparison method, English and Korean literatures are compared to ascertain the extent of Western-centricity within Korean higher education peace studies, and to offer a critical discussion of liberal peacebuilding, and linear problem-solving models within the literatures. Counter-arguments and policy recommendations are considered. The paper concludes that for peace education to fulfill its mission, global educational decolonization movements need to be strengthened. It is argued that efforts toward decolonization of Korean peace education could support the… [Direct]
(2021). In the Mood for Peace? Mood Work and Structures of Feeling in the Politics of Peace Education. Journal of Peace Education, v18 n3 p342-359. This paper puts in conversation Martin Heidegger's concept of "Stimmung" (mood or attunement) with Raymond Williams' notion of 'structures of feeling' to theorize 'mood work' in peace education. It is argued that the perspective of mood provides new insights in peace education that might be harder to grasp through the lens of affect or emotion, suggesting that mood is a term well suited to paying attention to longer duration of affective phenomena. In particular, mood work draws attention to the processes of affective (mis)attunement, that is, the successes and failures of individuals and groups to 'fit the mood.' The author offers a vignette from his ethnographic research to show the mood work conducted by a teacher in the context of a peace education initiative within a conflict-affected society. The analysis shows how mood work marshals bodies, objects, and feelings "towards" or "away" from particular political visions in peace education…. [Direct]
(2020). Peace Education Reconstructed: Developing a Kuwaiti Approach to Peace Education (KAPE). Journal of Peace Education, v17 n1 p83-106. Peace education is an emerging and growing field of study that holds promise for the future survival of our species. In this study, I use a relational hermeneutics method to analyze the relative compatibility of elements of three major peace education approaches (i.e. integrative, critical and comprehensive) with the Kuwaiti sociocultural context. My findings reveal several compatible elements: reflection, dialogue, creative learning, and action. I use these elements to propose a framework for a Kuwaiti Approach to Peace Education (KAPE) and discuss several practical and research implications…. [Direct]
(2023). Interactive Peace Imagery — Integrating Visual Research and Peace Education. Journal of Peace Education, v20 n1 p53-74. In this article, we suggest incorporating visual images into peace education through "interactive peace imagery" (IPI). We will show, and illustrate with examples from our work, that interactive teaching creates a space for students to reflect upon their socializations, including visual ones, without which image interpretation cannot be fully explained. We begin by exploring photojournalism as a media that, while providing raw material for peace education, does not serve as a model for image interpretation. Emphasizing images' interpretive openness, we suggest an alternative approach (IPI) that unearths, (re)vitalizes, and capitalizes on the plurality of meanings images carry with them. We focus on digitization and active interaction (seeing — changing — sharing) in a non-hierarchic teaching environment. In IPI, the classroom becomes a network: students interactively engage with visual images by regarding existing images, elaborating on them, changing them, sharing the… [Direct]
(2021). A Poiesis of Peace: Imagining, Inventing & Creating Cultures of Peace. The Qualities of the Artist for Peace Education. Journal of Peace Education, v18 n2 p143-162. In this theoretical article, the qualities of the artist for peacebuilding and peace education are explored. Peacebuilding and peace education are not only based on skills and knowledge, but also on art, a creative process that originates in our imagination. The question guiding this paper is: How can we, as peacebuilders and educators, imagine, invent, and create cultures of peace and build spaces for others to do so? Based on Lederach's moral imagination, I present a conceptualization of a poiesis of peace as a frame for peace education. This so-called poiesis of peace is built on the sensibility of the heart as the feeling center that can perceive the imaginal and the relationality of breath as described by Irigaray as a field of intersubjectivity and interconnectedness. The potential of this imaginative sensibility is the ability to feel into another experience, described as empathy and resonance, which might manifest as an ethics of care and nonviolence. Using arts based methods… [Direct]
(2019). Diffraction, Transrational Perspectives, and Peace Education: New Possibilities. Journal of Peace Education, v16 n3 p274-295. This paper draws on the theoretical lens of diffraction to conceptualize a new approach to transrational peace education theory and praxis in the post-2016 posttruth political era and Industry 4.0 economic period. The paper reviews foundational concepts and approaches from key founders of the field — Paulo Freire and Betty Reardon — before turning to two contemporary peace education scholars — Wolfgang Dietrich and Hilary Cremin — to investigate the contributions of recent scholarship toward diverse diffractive possibilities for transrational peace education. In this sense, diffraction offers pluralistic views and transformative possibilities for transrational peace education in varied contexts. Transrational peace education builds upon peace education to integrate affective and aesthetic perspectives into peace education theory and praxis. Before concluding, we offer some theoretical implications and pedagogic responses for scholars seeking to work at diffractive transrational… [Direct]
(2021). Developing Context-Specific Peace Education Initiatives with Local Communities: Lessons from Bolivia. Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, v51 n7 p1003-1021. Peace education is often carried out without being appropriately adapted to the contexts in which it takes place and rarely involves those most affected by the work in the design and planning of their own initiatives. This article reports on an original participatory action research project designed to contextualise a peace education initiative with local communities in Bolivia. It draws on fieldwork, including interviews and focus groups with policymakers, educators, and students, to show how local actors, including students, were involved in influencing what peace education should look like for them, focussing on its purpose, pedagogy, and content. Lessons learned are also discussed. The case study is offered within a larger context of how the international community can work with the direct beneficiaries to co-develop peace and education-related initiatives that are responsive to the needs of the particular groups and contexts they are trying to affect…. [Direct]