An education for peace and understandingH.D.S. Greenway
The potential of integrated education to promote tolerance and understanding is discussed. This paper concludes that the needs of children and society for reconciliation through integrated schooling should perhaps take preference over the rights of parents to segregated education.doi:10.1080/...
Founded on Freire’s principle of inspiring ‘critical optimism’, peace education strives to enable students to become agents of social change (Bajaj, 2008). However, Freire (2014) cautioned for a counterproductive cultivation of hope without a critical understanding of the social conditions and co...
Peace is about creating community, getting to know one another, working together for win-win solutions and providing hospitality to all. It is in recognizing our differences, but not letting these differences get in the way of understanding and appreciation for our diverse, collective wisdom and ...
Gingerbread for the Mind: A Review of John Locke and Children's Books in Eighteenth-Century England Locke's Concerning Human Understanding (1690) and Some Thoughts Concerning Education (1693) were influential works in the eighteenth century, when the ideas of England's "first philosopher" permeated...
Herbart’s basing of educational methods on an understanding of mental processes or psychologicalconsiderations, his view that psychology and moral philosophy are linked, and his idea that instruction is the means to moral judgment had a large place in late 19th-century pedagogical thought. Among Her...
Understanding and transforming violence is central. The following diagram helps visualise the core relationship between violence and peace.Peace is understood not only as the absence of traditional forms of direct violence, but also as a positive presence. Globalization is a process of interaction and...
6.International Understanding: True to the hoary tradition of India following the principle of amity and co-operation among nations, education has to strengthen peace and understanding between nations, treating the whole world as one family and motivate the younger generations for international co-op...
Through progressive courses in language and the exact sciences, the young people would be brought to a deeper understanding of things. Finally, theuniversity(19–24) would be a continuation of this school. Every province ought to have one such university, whose central task would be the ...
Reflections on the peace education in universities 在高校开展和平教育的若干思考 2. So we should guide children with a correct attitude towards military games,a proper understanding to history,and curriculums related to peace education should be designed. 为此,要引导儿童正确地对待军事游戏;让儿童适...