For learning to foster peace in their lives, it is necessary to guide them to know and have a clear understanding of what a culture of peace really means, with direct linkage to the current local realities they can identify with in their immediate community.
They further need to know the various things that can contribute to the emergence and sustenance of a culture of peace, together with those things that are needed to promote its entrenchment and sustenance.
This knowledge should be tailored to make them understand their potential individual roles and the effects of their contributions to the cultivation, promotion and sustenance of a culture of peace from their local levels to the wider global level.
To embrace and promote peace, our students need to be empowered (with guidance and a conducive environment) to inculcate the skills, attitudes, and values that will make them adopt the culture of peace in themselves and go on further to propagate it in their various spheres of relationships.
They need to be guided to acquire the capacity for peaceful conflict resolution, mutual respect for diversity, cooperation etc.
Ibrahim,
ReplyDeleteI agree it is very important to guide students. They really need the wisdom of adults to help them understand what is going on around them. So much of peace education is building awareness of our surroundings. It is so easy to just get lulled by the status quo.
Gwen