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Principles and practices of peace education
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Acknowledgements

This free course was written by Lucy Henning, Isabel (Izzy) Cartwright and Ellis Brooks and was first published in December 2024. The course authors would like to acknowledge Woodbrooke Study Centre who created peace education programmes run in partnership with Quakers in Britain, that provided ideas and inspiration that fed into this course. Thanks also to Mirjam Hauck, Dominic Servis and the team at the OCLC for their support in creating this course.

OpenLearn course editor: Dale Harry.

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Introduction and guidance

Images

Course Image: Courtesy Quakers in Britain, www.quaker.org.uk

Session 1

Images

Figure 1: Courtesy: Quakers in Britain www.quaker.org.uk

Figure 2: Courtesy: Quakers in Britain www.quaker.org.uk

Figure 3: Quote: Martin Luther King

Figure 4: Geopix/Alamy Stock Photo

Figure 5: Stocksnap – Pixabay

Figure 6: Courtesy: Quakers in Britain www.quaker.org.uk

Figure 7: andresr/Getty Images

Figure 10:  Front cover of the report Peace at the Heart, commissioned by Quakers in Britain. Courtesy: Quakers in Britain www.quaker.org.uk

Video

Video 1: introducing peace education: ©The Open University (2024) with thanks to Quakers in Britain www.quaker.org.uk for images and video.

Video 2: Children’s perceptions of conflict (extract) from Peace Building in Schools https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=XuX5h112ML4&list=PLPeUpt2GsDX5F7VRuh3zxwVUDyDy0_S4O&index=3 Courtesy: Quakers in Britain www.quaker.org.uk

Session 2

Images

Figure 1:  monkeybusinessimages iStock/Getty Images Plus

Figure 2: ‘Pick Up Cards’ from a Peace Week activity from Peace Week Primary core lesson (p. 3 ) plans a resource from Quakers in Britain, Courtesy: Quakers in Britain www.quaker.org.uk

Figure 3:  Courtesy: Quakers in Britain www.quaker.org.uk

Figure 4:  from Transforming activities for whole school engagement in human rights, citizenship and peacemaking ideas and resources for use in primary and secondary schools p. 20. London, NW1 2BJ © Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) in Britain 2019

Videos

Video 1: ©The Open University (2024) with thanks to Quakers in Britain www.quaker.org.uk for images and video

Video 2: Welcome to the brain’s amazing drugs cabinet from the charity Scottish Centre for Conflict Resolution. Courtesy: Scottish Centre for Conflict Resolution www.scottishconflictresolution.org.uk. This video was produced by SCCR to be part of, Cranial Cocktails – www.scottishconflictresolution.org.uk/homunculus

Video 3: ©The Open University (2024) with thanks to Quakers in Britain www.quaker.org.uk or images and video

Session 3

Images

Figure 1: Explanation of a circle from Peacemakers from: Learning for Peace :A guide to developing outstanding SMSC in your Primary School peacemakers.org.uk/resources/learning-for-peace-book/ Used with permission

Figure 2: Diagram of a circle session from Peacemakers diagram from: peacemakers educating for peace (p. 2) peacemakers.org.uk//wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Online-safety-CT-sessions2.pdf peacemakers.org.uk

Figure 3: adapted from (p. 12) Conflict Management and Peace Building in everyday life. resourcecentre.savethechildren.net/pdf/resourcekit-web.pdf/Save the children, resourcecentre.savethechildren.net, creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/deed.en

Figure 4: An extract from Learning for Peace (p. 59) Learning for Peace , Peacemakers, Lifeworlds Learning, lifeworlds.co.uk

Figure 5:  Book cover: My Name is Sangoel (2009) by Karen Williams and Khadra Mohammed (illustrated by Catherine Stock) Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., www.eerdmans.com/ Used with permission

Session 4

Images

Figure 1: ricochet64/iStock/Getty Images Plus

Figure 2: Eoneren/Getty Images

Figure 3: Alex Scottish Mediation poster: courtesy of Scottish Mediation www.scottishmediation.org.uk

Figure 4: UNICEF’s Rights Respecting Schools poster The child rights ICONS poster Courtesy: Unicef www.unicef.org.uk www.unicef.org.uk/rights-respecting-schools/resources/teaching-resources/our-rights-poster/

Figure 5: Article 39 of the UNCRC www.unicef.org.uk/rights-respecting-schools/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2017/01/uncrc_su_unicef https://www.unicef.org/

Videos

Video 1: Introduction: ©The Open University (2024) with thanks to Quakers in Britain, www.quaker.org.uk, for images and video

Video 2: marked as 1 CRESST with Greystone’s Primary School, Sheffield. Peer mediation scheme www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2Yq62oazbI&t=11s Courtesy: Quakers in Britain www.quaker.org.uk

Video 3: listed as video 2 Mediation Skills for Life | Building Peace in Schools www.youtube.com/watch?v=5G7sLRkkkUE&ab_channel=QuakersinBritain.Courtesy: Quakers in Britain www.quaker.org.uk

Video 5: listed as video 4: Peer Mediation in Scotland | Young Talk. Peer Mediation in Scotland/Young Talk. Courtesy: Quakers in Britain www.quaker.org.uk

Session 5

Images

Figure 1: Climate activists Vanessa Nakate and Greta Thunberg. Vanessa Nakate: used under licence from Reuters News and Media Ltd ; Greta Thunberg Per Grunditz/Shutterstock.

Figure 2: Book Cover, Wangari’s Trees of Peace: A True Story from Africa by Jeanette Winter , Harper Collins (2018).

Figure 3: A photograph from theatre production Glasgow Girls. Glasgow Girls, 2012, a National Theatre of Scotland Production. Photo credit: Drew Farrell.

Activities

Activity 1: diagram adapted from: Standish, K. (2019) (p. 6) ‘Learning How to Hope: A Hope Curriculum’, Humanity & Society, 43, p. 484–504.

Activity 6: extract from Teaching Controversial Issues: A guide for teachers (p. 3). Teaching Controversial Issues: A guide for teachers – Oxfam Policy & Practice, published by Oxfam Education.

Videos

Video 1: Introduction, © The Open University (2024) with thanks to Quakers in Britain for images and video, www.quaker.org.uk

Video 2: Never give up: Retelling Wangari’s Trees of Peace https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKdWEkOPLkw&t=1s0 courtesy Quakers in Britain, www.quaker.org.uk

Video 3 and video 4: Elizabeth Garrett Anderson School. ‘Something will be different’ Building Peace in Schools, courtesy Quakers in Britain, www.quaker.org.uk

Session 6

Images

Figure 1: Courtesy Quakers in Britain, www.quaker.org.uk

Figure 2: United Nations quality education logo: sdgs.un.org/goals

Figure 3: Adapted from Peace at the Heart (p. 38). A relational approach to education in British schools Quakers in Britain, 2022 Courtesy: Quakers in Britain www.quaker.org.uk

Videos

Video 1: ©The Open University (2024) with thanks to rights holders of logos and Quakers in Britain for other images,

Video 2: Sustainable Development Goal 4: Quality Education (Secondary) copyright:2019 by Participate, Inc. This work is licensed under the Deed – AttributionshareAlike 4.0 International – Creative Commons

Video 3: ©The Open University with thanks to Quakers in Britain www.quaker.org.uk for images

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