Are there academics and other educators, curriculum developers interested in the design of a world peace curriculum with practical adaptations across cultures? Is the notion even possible when “peace” has various meanings to different people?
Arthur Mark
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May 27th, 2009 at 11:26 pm
I was involved in a summer school at a Norwegian University a few years ago to manage the school programme. The curriculum was based around the UN Declaration of Human Rights and Peace issues, so happy to help, pass on contacts etc.
Also, there’s a Peace school in Olso, Norway and their curriculum is around peace but also issues of intercultural understanding, communication skills etc.
Rotary International also offer a Peace Studies program with several universities around the world deliver this. Bradford Uni, UK is one of these and they have a Peace studies dept, so I’m sure they’d be interested in helping.
For us, our international education programs (ididbetter.com) have a number of objectives for participants, one of which is for them to learn intercultural communication skills, ultimately, it’s felt these skills plus the experience of living abroad can lead to greater levels of understanding, self-awareness and ultimately a more peaceful outlook. So I’m keen to know more about developments.
Feel free to get in touch if you need any contacts. I’m on linked in and also on twitter.com/idid_better
May 28th, 2009 at 11:06 am
Your information and review of your personal experiences with various worldwide Peace Studies programs interests me. I have
memory of programs in the U.S., particularly Teachers College
Columbia University from which the World Council for Curriculum and Instruction (WCCI) grew. There are models of elementary and
secondary education programs being collected at Spelman College
by the students of Karen McLean Dade (kdonaldson@spelman.edu) who was the editor of the WCCI Newsletter. On what level is the Oslo Peace school? Please do brainstorm with me.
May 29th, 2009 at 4:37 am
Interesting links and ideas.
Most of the experiences I have are at higher education level, rather than primary/secondary school as I’ve always worked with post-18 year olds for our programmes.
The website for the Centre for Conflict Mgt in Oslo seems to be down, so unfortunately that’s at a deadend.
The Bradford Uni Peace Studies dept website is:
http://www.brad.ac.uk/acad/peace/
The Norwegian summer school/university I was involved with has a website of http://www.hibo.no
June 9th, 2009 at 8:18 am
A new global education program from the Tony Blair Faith Foundation, Face to Faith, http://tonyblairfaithfoundation.org/projects/schools-and-young-people/face-to-faith/?dm_i=584863619
is a good start in this direction.