•Ication 488-4 Special Toes:

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Teaching Peace in the Classroom: Problems of?

Methods and Implementation

SUMMER SESSION, 1986 ? INSTRUCTOR: S. Hargraves

Tuesday & Thursday, 8:30 - 12:20 ?

Location: MPX 9511

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Calendar Description:

Students will consider peace education as a problem of methods and

implementation and will apply curriculum theory to the task of

teaching peace in the classroom.. Students will examine examples and

case studies of peace education innovations drawn from Canadian and

international contexts, and will develop a teachable curriculum unit

in a form suitable for implementation..

Objectives:

1)

Students will be able to define peace education as both content

and structure of the curriculum with examples in recent history..

la) Students will discuss peace education as a problem of curriculum

development and implementation..

2)

Students will identify the key stake holders and change agents in

the peace education process.

3)

Students will analyze the characteristics of the innovation and of

the context for compatibilities and incompatibilities to the

change..

4) Students will examine examples of recent peace education

experiments to determine common factors lending to success or lack

of same..

5)

Students will be able to discuss the problem of bias and balance

controversial materials.

6)

Students will practice key peace-making skills in role-playing and

real life situations.

7) Students will develop a curriculum unit around one of the themes

in peace educatin.

8) Students will design a strategy for implementation of their unit

within a specified educatinal context..

Required Reading:

(1983)

Educators for Social Responsibility, Cambridge, Mass..