Continuing Professional Development Training Course on Peace Education

“Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war”. 

María Montessori  

Traditionally, teachers have been trained to consider themselves as persons who impart content. In this view ‘the teacher knows everything and the students know nothing’ (Freire, 1970, p 73)i and teaching is seen as the act of ‘filling an empty pot.’ A teacher-centered approach that assumes that teachers have all the knowledge while learners have none can have important consequences. Rather than being critical and independent thinkers, the learner is submissive and reliant on a teacher to tell them what to think and what to know. Peace education is the opposite of the teacher centered-approach. This approach is learner-centered and is driven by active learning and combines critical thinking, reflection, self-awareness, ethics and meaningful action. Rather than the filling of an empty pot, in this approach, teaching is seen as enabling flowers to grow. 

The main purpose of  this  training  manual fundamentals  of  Peace  Education is  to  introduce  the training participants (Ps) to  the its  basic  knowledge  base  as  well  as  the skills  and  values that need  to  be  cultivated  to foster equality, diversity and  inclusion  and  further  prevent  from violence and  bullying  in  early  childhood. 

In  as  much  as  this  is  only  an  introductory  manual,  it  will  not  be able  to  deeply  on  the  various aspects related  to the  field.  Rather,  the  thrust  and  specific  objective  of  this to  introduce  the  following: 

• A holistic  understanding  of  peace  and  violence  (bullying), 
• The  prevention  of bullying  based  on  peace  education  from  early  years
• The  role  of the  practitioners  (teachers)
• And the learning materials to be implemented in the classroom. 

Only  by  empowering  teachers  we  can  achieve  a  better  world.  Our  aim  is  to  create  habits  in the children that determine  any  performance  in  the  future,  a transfer  of  values  that  remains in  the  long  term  that  extends during  all their lives. 

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