Peace

education
- is the process of acquiring thevalues,
theknowledgeand developing
theattitudes, skills, and behaviorsto
live in harmony with oneself, with
others, and with the natural
environment

INTEGRATING PEACE EDUCATION

IN THE PRESENT CURRICULUM

LUCELE D. PASINAG
MAED-EM

 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

1. Knowledge

2. Attitudes

3. Values

4. Skills

KNOWLEDGE

Conflict

Students should study a variety of

contemporary conflict situations
from the personal to the global and
attempts made to resolve them.

KNOWLEDGE

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.

KNOWLEDGE

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

KNOWLEDGE
Nuclear issues

Students should learn about a wide

range of nuclear issues and be aware of
the key viewpoints on defence and
disarmament.

KNOWLEDGE

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

KNOWLEDGE

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

KNOWLEDGE

Gender
Students should study issues on
discrimination based on gender.

KNOWLEDGE

Race

Students should study issues to do with

discrimination based on race.

KNOWLEDGE

Environment

Students should have a concern for the

environment welfare of all the natural
systems on which they depend.

KNOWLEDGE

Futures

Students should study a range of

alternative futures, both probable and
preferable.

ATTITUDE

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

ATTITUDE

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

ATTITUDE

Ecological Concern

Students will have a sense of respect for

the natural environment and our overall
place in the web of life.

ATTITUDE

OpenStudents will be willing to approach

mindedness
different sources of information, people,
and events with a critical approach but
open mind.

ATTITUDE

Vision

Students will be open to and value

various dreams and visions of what a
better world might look like.

ATTITUDE

Commitment to
Students
will be enabled to value
justice

genuinely democratic principles and

processes and be ready to work for a
more just and peaceful world at local,
national, and international levels.

VALUES
Human
rights
and
dignity, equality, protection of the rights
democracy
of all peoples, freedom of speech and
expression, and freedom of belief

VALUES
Cooperation
and
Solidarity
of peace and harmony,
love

conflict
resolution by peaceful means, mutual
understanding and cooperation and
respect

VALUES

Preservation of
Culture of
peace, respect for the family
Cultures
and all of its members, appreciation of
ones own culture, appreciation of the
worlds cultural heritage and human
achievement

VALUES

Self and
Self-awareness,
Others self-esteem, and

discipline
Respect and empathy in our relationship
with others
Moral courage
O-mindedness, truthfulness and
tolerance
Mutual respect for the religious
observance of others
Freedom of thought, conscience and

VALUES
International
Awareness
ismof the rights and duties of
citizenship
Equality among nations
Harmony between nationalism,
regionalism, and internationalism
Awareness of global issues and their
peaceful resolution

VALUES
Protection of the
Interdependence
of people and nature
Environment
Caring for environmental welfare

Commitment to maintain and improve the

environment for the survival of all species

SKILLS
Critical
Thinking

To approach issues with an open and

critical mind and be willing to change
opinions in the face of new evidence and
rational argument.

SKILLS
Information
Handling
To know where to look for answers and how
to select and reject information.

SKILLS
Creative
Thinking
This skill enable student to think creatively
to resolve conflict.

SKILLS
Reflection
Students will be developing the ability to
influence decision-making thoughtfully,
both within their own lives and in their local
community, and also at national and
international levels.

SKILLS
Cooperation
Working cooperatively with other individuals
and groups in order to achieve a common
goal.

SKILLS
Empathy
Students will be able to imagine sensitively
the viewpoints and feelings of other people.

SKILLS
Assertivenes
s

Students will be able to communicate clearly

and assertively with others.

SKILLS
Conflict
Resolution
Students will be able to analyze
different conflicts in an objective and
systematic way and be able to suggest a
range of solutions to them.

SIX
MAJOR
MEDIA
INTEGRATION

Subject Context

Peace education can

be introduced into a
classroom as a program.

Language

Peace education in the context of

language provides motivation for intercultural communication, a dimension of
social consciousness within the
curriculum, and potential for
interconnecting disciplines and
addressing complex issues.

Language Activities used in

teaching Peace Education:
Reading and
Writing

Speaking and
Listening

Language Activities used in

teaching Peace Education:
Including Human
Rights and
Peacemaking
Vocabulary Words
in Weekly Spelling
Program

Communication
Skills

- Respect
Responsibility
- Fairness
-justice
- Rights
- needs
- Perceptions democracy

Language Activities used in

teaching Peace Education:
Writing Scripts
and Plays

Pilandok = EDSA People

Pwer Inspired

Debates

Language Activities used in

teaching Peace Education:
Drama

Negotiation

By integrating the above mentioned ideas

and approaches of Peace Education students
will be able to:
Understand and be aware of war and peace
issues
Develop skills of empathy
Illustrate links between the personal, local
and global spheres
Promote personal growth and development
through self-awareness
Communicate their feelings and listen to
others; and
Contribute to create peace with justice.

Mathematics
Mathematics can be a very powerful
way to approach topics of equity,
global distribution of wealth, economic
development, and military versus
educational expenditures, pollution,
and environmental responsibility.

Mathematics
Peace concepts can be
effectively integrated:
While teaching graphs, charts
and so on, it could be
produced to display some of
the relationships of our
country with others.
Students could be made to be
aware of the world problems
involving cost of defense
budgets and local impact.

Mathematics
By integrating the above mentioned
ideas and approaches to Peace
Education students will be able to:
Develop problem solving skills
Creative thinking and critical
thinking skills
Be aware of the connection between
math and culture
Develop deep concern for our
environment

Science
Science teachers can teach peace
by
promoting
environmental
awareness and ecological thinking.
Processes of obtaining, analyzing
and evaluating evidences and making
predictions in science develop social
skills for peace and collaborative
citizenship.
Themes
of peace and justice can be infused in
the content of science subject so that peace is
pervasive in the curriculum.
Life Science
Chemistry
Physics

Social Sciences
Peace education is a natural extension of the
elementary classroom; it is not that Peace
Education is something that children do, but it is
not what they do what is true is that teachers
themselves should serve as a model and teach
through example.
The following are Social Science subjects that
provide scope to enable students to explore world
peace.
History
Geography

Arts and Design

In
Art, as in Design Technology,
investigating and making can be practiced
collaboratively in the classroom.
-The art world is full of images and conflict,
death and anger besides peace, serenity and
cooperation.
-Signs and symbols have been used for
centuries to promote war or peace.
-Students can be encouraged to do specific
projects highlighting the necessity of peace
to human community.

Computer Science
-Information Communication Technology (ICT)
has not only increased the potential for global
co-operation but has also changed the way
wars are fought.
-Students could use ICT to research and
present their hopes for greater cooperation
and understanding in the future by producing
a website or multimedia presentation.

Computer Science
-Students could examine the morality of
killing people from a keyboard thousands of
miles away, or the notion of a just war in
which some are armed with hi-tech
equipment
and
others
use
military
technology centuries old.
-In Information Technology, communicating
and handling information can give great
scope for exchanging ideas and experiences
with others, particularly other young people
across the world.

Teaching Methods
The development of learning that will
enable humankind to renounce the
institution of war and replace it with
institutions more consistent with the
visions and values being articulated in the
body of international standards remain
the core of the Peace Education task.

-Betty Reardon, Peace Education:

A Review and Projection, (1999)

Teaching Methods
Cooperative
Learning
To help ensure that
students will manage
conflicts
constructively
a. a
cooperative
classroom
and
school
must
be
established
b. Students must be
directly taught how
to
manage
intellectual
conflicts
inherent
in learning groups

Language

Teaching Methods
Group Discussion
- Is a tool for teaching peace-related
concepts via various subjects in the
classroom
and
to
assist
active,
meaningful
engagement
with
other
students and work towards a common
goal.
a. What is peace?
b. Why is government necessay?

Teaching Methods
a. Discussing Quotes
of famous Peace
Workers

b. Developing
Ethical reasoning
through discussion
Taught
through
discussion
of
moral
conflicts and dilemmas.

Teaching Methods
Peer Teaching
*Effective
peer
teaching provides
students
with
opportunities
to
develop awareness
and understanding
of
community
issues,
problems
to develop social
responsibility.

Teaching Methods
Brainstorming
to introduce the notions of interfaith
harmony, and conflict resolution while
teaching Social Sciences, which will bring a
new attitude of peace among individuals.
Most effective with groups of 8-12 students
and should be performed in a relax
classroom environment.
A brainstorming session requires a teacher,
a brainstorming space and something on
which o write ideas.
The teachers responsibilities are guiding
the session, encouraging participation and

Teaching Methods
Steps of Brainstorming Technique
Identifying Problem

Consolidation Phase

Assessment Phase

Teaching Methods

Role-Play
Promotes
interaction
both
among
students and between the students and
teacher
inside
and
outside
the
classroom.
Helps to create a safe environment
where students can feel free to express
their views and the teacher can then
correct or modify.
Has been common practice in teaching
negotiation skills, appreciating specific
type
of
interest-driven
behaviour,
understanding better the ethical issues
involved, and developing sympathetic
views in course on politics.
allows students to gain insight into their

Teaching Methods
Energizers

Are great ideas for students to rest from

their activity or to boost their brain
activity.
Engage all students and are a strategy
that fosters cooperation.

Teaching Methods
Storytelling
Sharing stories gathered from around the
world will reveal surprising solutions to
common conflicts in homes, schools and
communities through the magic of story.
Allows students to find their voice,
imparts knowledge, carries on traditions
and helps foster changes in listener's
behaviours and ways of thinking.
Peace building should be an enjoyable
process which can be shared together by
adults and children.

Teaching Methods
Storytelling
Peace building elements
a.
b.
c.
d.
e.
f.
g.

Happy endings
Nonviolent resolution
Challenges existing stereotyping
Imaginative and creative
Faith and hope
Peace with the environment
Finding personal place

Teaching Methods
Service Learning
- integrates meaningful community service
with instruction and reflection to enrich the
learning experience, civic responsibility, and
strengthen communities.

Teaching Methods
Service Learning benefits the students in a
number of ways :
They learn to serve other rather that
being served by others.
Students will practice the principles and
human
values
that
constitute
the
foundation of their purposeful life.
skills
of
cooperation
Their
communication also get improved.

and

Promotes understanding of diversity and

mutual respect among al participants.

Teaching Methods
Service Learning benefits the students in a
number of ways :
They learn to serve other rather that
being served by others.
Students will practice the principles and
human
values
that
constitute
the
foundation of their purposeful life.
skills
of
cooperation
Their
communication also get improved.

and

Promotes understanding of diversity and

mutual respect among al participants.
It

helps

students

develop

interpersonal

Teaching Methods
Experiential Teahing

Teaching Methods
Experiential Teaching
Experiential learning has been shown to
significantly enhance teamwork, social skills,
peer relations and other concepts closely
related to peace building.
learning
asserts
the
Experiential
importance of critical reflection in learning.
learn
To
behaviours.

constructive

non-violent

Cooperative and educational games are

used as tools for experiential learning.

Teaching Methods
Inquiry-based Learning and Teaching

Teaching Methods
Inquiry-based Learning and Teaching

Students are made to learn to value others

point of view, to be confident, to share
opinions in a respectful way and to resolve
conflict dialogically.
Students can experience a range of
thoughts and perspectives for cultural
understanding, non-violent communication
and learn conflict management skills.

Teaching Methods
Dialogues
Pictures

Teaching Methods
Dialogues
Promote the bonds of friendships, decision
making skills and build empathy, where
people can feel for each other.
Promote values such as self-respect,
respect for others, self expression and
ability to listen to others, including those
who have different perspectives.
Enhance tolerance and open-mindedness.

Co-curricular Activities

is a program or out-of-class activity

which provides curriculum-related
learning and character building
experiences.
are particularly good at providing
opportunities for students to work in
teams, to exercise leadership, and to
take the initiative themselves.

Assembly
this
Through
activity
social
interaction,
leadership
,
healthy
recreation,
selfdiscipline
and
self-confidence of
students can be
enhance.
a
Develops
framework
for
understanding
and appreciating
diversity
and

Sports and Games

should
Games
contribute
in
building
ones
character
and
teach the person
how
to
break
down barriers of
hatred
and
distrust.
should
Games
foster the spirit of
cooperation
and
provide
the
opportunity
to
experience

Club Activities
should
Clubs
promote
global
understanding
among
pupils
coming
from
different
backgrounds
in
developing
a
global vision to
become
a
true
citizen
of
the
world.

Uniformed groups
aims to develop a
resourceful,
resilient
loyal
young
men
and
women capable of
serving
the
Republic
as
responsible
adult
citizens
and
to
groom leaders for
the next millennium
so that they can
contribute to peace

Cultural Meets
Organizing cultural meets such as music,
dance
and
drama
in
schools
will
strengthen
inter-religious
and
intercultural
cooperation
among
students.
Music
Children singing in unison
Patriotic songs
Hinirang

Dance and Drama

Ang

bayan

ko,

Lupang

Staff Development

Making a school a place of

peace is an achievement of
a cooperative effort and
the commitment of the
whole
staff
under
the
supportive leadership of a
competent principal.

Staff Development
The purposes of
program should be:

staff

development

To make them feel valued in the job

they do
To enable them to do their job well
To help them to anticipate and prepare
for changes in their work
encourage
them
to
derive
To
excitement and satisfaction from their
involvement in change; and
make
them
feel
willing
and
To
competent to contribute constructively
to the development of the school

Staff Development
Activities for staff development

1. Conducting staff meeting

2. Provide Discussions forums and
Workshops
3. Training Methods
4. Organizing Staff Seminars on Peace
Education
5. Intensive Training

Classroom Management

Maintaining a wellbehaved classroom is

one of the most crucial
elements for achieving
maximum learning.

Classroom Management

Classroom Management
Principles of Classroom Management

Encouraging good behavior with

praise
Happy students display better
classroom behavior
Engaging students in interesting
lessons is a sure-fire way to eliminate
problem behavior.
Handling disruptions with minimal
interruption
Prevention is far easier than a

School Management

Requires the school

to demonstrate all the
concepts
related
to
peace
both
in
the
methodology
and
implementation of the

Classroom Management
Peace Education can be successfully
integrated through these principles:
Positive tone of warmth and safety
climate
Child-centered philosophy and
practice
Practices for developing self-esteem
Absence of corporal punishment

PRACTICAL STEPS
TO BUILD PEACE
CULTURE IN
SCHOOLS

The following are the practical steps to

build peace culture in schools:
1.
2.
3.
4.

Meta-cognition and thinking dispositions

The classroom as a peaceful community
Language Arts activities
Trust building activities
Morning Meeting
Celebrate One Day in Peace
Peace Week
5. Celebrations around the World
6. School Library
7. Displaying Mottos

THANK YOU!!!