Fall Blog Festival

ELT for
Peace

EFL Blended Projects on promoting Peace through the use of social media and virtual
worlds.

Presented by
Dr. Doris Molero (Pionia Destiny)
September 21st, 2014

Lets talk Peace

Please, Introduce yourself to the person

sitting next to you.. and share your take on

the following questions
Whats peace?
Is language teaching and learning a way

to promote peace?
Why should educators promote a culture
of peace?
Would language become real if we
integrated a culture of peace in our
classrooms?

Language classrooms are known for

promoting anxiety, stress and competition,

rather than the collaboration and sensitive
awareness.

Teaching and Practicing Peace in

the EFL class
Peace does not simply involve the absence
of war but includes the concept of peaceful
collaboration amongst individuals and
groups of different ethnic backgrounds as
well asfrom the same ethnic background.
.. Students benefit by learning to
collaborate more effectively and by
avoiding conflict and violence.

Marisa Constantinides

Can English Language Teachers rise to these

challenges? I believe they can, .Our job,
after all, is to teach effective
communication skills, and defining our
educational objectives in conjunction with
peace education objectives is not as
difficult as for teachers of other disciplines."

http://marisaconstantinides.edublogs.org/2010/09/21/peace-education-

Peace Oriented
Education
According toUNESCO, a peace oriented education
..should attempt to reduce the willingness to use
violence in individuals and to reveal and remove the
infrastructures which cause violence in human relations
at all levels of society and amongst nations.
Human rights and an education which has peace as its
goal are not a luxury but are at the roots of the mission of
an educational institution..
Peace Linguisticsis a term which appeared in the 90sfor the
promotion of peace and human rights at international level and
stressed the value of linguistic multilingualism at national
and international level.
Within this framework, there is a need to create language
attitudeswhich respect the dignity of individual speakers

Help
Educating for Peace
students

Become members of communities of practice

Become collaborators and cooperators.
Become good communicators by improving

communication skills
Develop the ability to resolve conflicts.
Improve understanding and develop empathy
for others.
Develop the ability to view issues from a
multiple perspectives.
Develop knowledge about the world
Develop critical thinking.
Connect with peers and the world

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My face for peace
Avatars for Peace
Words for peace - I stand for peace
Voices for peace
Peace posters
A poem for peace
Caps for kids
Celebrating Peace Day
Video Lyrics for Peace
I declare World Peace

My Face for Peace Project:

Fireworks for Peace
http://doris3meflcenter.blogspot.com/2013/03/myface-for-peace-project-fireworks-for.html

http://doris3meflcenter.blogspot.com/2013/03/ava
tars-for-peace-efl-language-project.html

Facebook

https://www.facebook.com/groups/64162169918
6528/

https://www.facebook.com/MyFaceForPeaceVenez
uela

https://www.facebook.com/doris.molero/media_s
et?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5xpzHngFss

Twitter
#myfaceforpeace

#facesandavatarsf
orpeace

Words for Peace.. We stand for

Peace

http://doris3meflcenter.blogspot.com/2014/05/workshop-1-words-for-peace.htm

Voices for Peace

https://soundcloud.com/doris-mo
lero/aless-1?in=doris-molero/se
ts/voices-for-peace

Posters for Peace

http://www.pinterest.com/doris3m/posters-for-peace/

https://www.facebook.com/doris.molero/posts/101545492068253
68

Poems for Peace

http://doris3meflcenter.blogspot.com/2014/07/apoemforpeace.h
tml

Caps for Kids

https://www.facebook.com/doris.molero/media_set?set=a.1015446519164
0368.1073741893.642495367&type=3

Peace Day

http://doris3meflcenter.blogspot.com/2014/09/international-day-of-peace-peace-day.h
tml

Pinterest

http://www.pinterest.com/doris3m/images-andlanguage-of-peace/

http://www.pinterest.com/doris3m/ava
tars-for-peace/

http://www.pinterest.com/doris3m/our-faces-for-peace-efl-for-

You Tube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=rixKw8KsRLM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2jNLt-fEro

https://www.youtube.com/watch?

Second Life

http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/EduNation/48/2

Resources to teach peace

Teaching Peace through Literature and

Song (K-2)
http://learningtogive.org/lessons/unit156/less
on2.html
ESL Discussion Questions about Peace &
World Peace
http://wuxiesl.blogspot.com/2012/12/esl-discu
ssion-questions-about-peace.html
Peace and solidarity worksheets
http://www.eslprintables.com/vocabulary
_worksheets/peace_and_solidarity/

Doris Molero, Ph.D., Instructor

Rafael Belloso Chacin University
doris3m@gmail.com
Follow me on Twitter: @doris3m, we're using
the hashtag #doris3meflcenter for this
course.
You can visit our class blog:
http://doris3meflcenter.blogspot.com/
You can also follow me on Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/doris.molero
Join our class Facebook group:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/520496445
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