Principles and practices of peace education
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Contents

  • Introduction
  • Guidance for participants and facilitators
  • Quakers in Britain
  • Moving around the course
  • Introduction
  • 1 What does peace mean to you?
    • 1.1 Peace and peace educators
  • 2 Positive peace
    • 2.1 Is it peace for everybody?
  • 3 Violence
    • 3.1 Structural violence
  • 4 Conflict
  • 5 Introducing Peace at the Heart
  • 6 Summary of Session 1
  • Introduction
  • 1 Wellbeing and peace building
    • 1.1 What does wellbeing mean?
  • 2 What’s good in me – Affirmations
    • 2.1 Affirming others
  • 3 Managing myself in difficult situations
    • 3.1 Self regulating
    • 3.2 Recognising needs
  • 4 Summary of Session 2
  • Introduction
  • 1 Working in circles
    • 1.1 Planning a circle session
  • 2 Approaches to conflict
  • 3 Empathy and peace competencies
    • 3.1 Using empathy as a curriculum tool – touching on peace in the wider world
    • 3.2 Competencies for peace
  • 4 Summary of Session 3
  • Introduction
  • 1 Children and young people in their communities
    • 1.1 Making a start
  • 2 Developing peace in educational settings
    • 2.1 Peer mediation
    • 2.2 School aspirations and pupil responsibility
    • 2.3 Training peer mediators
    • 2.4 Competencies and peer mediation
  • 3 Acting for change – Rights Respecting Schools
  • 4 The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child
  • 5 Summary of Session 4
  • Introduction
  • 1 Hope
    • 1.1 Understanding hope
    • 1.2 Thinking about non-violence
  • 2 Wangari’s Trees of Peace – starting with a story
  • 3 Selecting stories for peace education
  • 4 Working in the community: Glasgow Girls
    • 4.1 Finding suitable books
  • 5 Teaching for peace in the wider world
  • 6 Upstanding and privilege
  • 7 The role of the educator
  • 8 Teaching controversial issues
  • 9 Summary of Session 5
  • Introduction
  • 1 Your development as a peace educator
    • 1.1 Making a personal development plan
  • 2 What makes peace education quality education
    • 2.1 Working towards a coherent ethos of peace
    • 2.2 Resources to support your peace journey
    • 2.3 Evaluating peace resources
  • 3 Next steps
  • 4 Summary of Session 6
  • Further learning
  • References
  • Acknowledgements
  • Course resources and recommendations
    • Course further reading

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