(APRIL 2 – APRIL 8, 2016)
CLASS 7: Peace & Justice (Week of April 2 – 8)
IMPORTANT REMINDER: Lesson plans due in class from lesson 5
Key Notions
- What is peace/conflict?
- What is peace education?
- Why build peace?
- What is the place of peace education in the curriculum?
- What are some examples of peace initiatives in the region/contexts we are in?
- What are the challenges of implementing peace education?
- Teaching ‘difficult knowledge’ (how do we teach controversial issues or topics?)
Required Readings
GROUP A: Agatha Verdero & Anna Obura (2008). Peace education in Eastern and Central Africa State of the Art: Lessons and Possibilities. Conference Report. http://www.npi-africa.org/pages/admin/publications/upload/PEACE_EDUCATION_IN_EASTERN_AND_CENTRAL_AFRICA:_STATE_OF_THE_ART:_LESSONS_AND_POSSIBILITIES_CONFERENCES_REPORT_1375362325.pdf (selected pages – pp. 3-23)
GROUP B: Chelule, E. (2014).Impediments to implementation of peace education in public universities in Kenya. IOSR Journal Of Humanities And Social Science (IOSR-JHSS) 19 (3),174-185. http://iosrjournals.org/iosr-jhss/papers/Vol19-issue3/Version-2/W01932174185.pdf
GROUP C: Kenya Ministry of Education Science and Technology (2014). Education sector policy on peace education. http://planipolis.iiep.unesco.org/upload/Kenya/Kenya_education_sector_policy_peace_education.pdf (selected pages – pp. 9-22)
Recommended
- Milofksky, A. (2012). The role of education in peacebuilding. Worldview, 23-24. http://www.peacecorpsconnect.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/PEACEBUILDING_milofksky.pdf