Year: 2022 | Month: April | Volume 1 | Issue 1
Teaching Peace Education through Joyful Learning Approaches: A Conceptual Analysis
Krushna Chandra Patra
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Abstract:
One of the dark sides of the advent of science and technology is it has helped some nations to be emerged as super powers equipped with devastating nuclear weapons; which not only creates fear of war and violence among the people of the world but also destroys peace and harmony of mankind. The best example of the situation is the crisis between Ukraine and Russia. These can be stopped by training our young minds to comprehend the significance of peace and non-violence by incorporating peace education. According to Wikipedia- “Peace education is the process of acquiring the values, the knowledge and developing the attitudes, skills, and behaviors to live in harmony with oneself, with others, and with the natural environment”. To teach different aspects of peace education, i.e. development of human values, acquisition of knowledge of peaceful co-existence in the society, strengthening skills of living together peacefully and modifying behavior to show tolerance to other’s culture, adequate methods and approaches are required. Since the contents of peace education are integrated with the different subjects like language and literature, social sciences, mathematics and sciences, etc. there is no single method to teach peace education, rather it can be taught through combining various methods. Therefore, pedagogy of peace education is broad and which includes various methods and approaches. Out of the numbers of appropriate methods, some of the joyful methods of peace education can be incorporated in teaching learning process to teach peace education successfully and interestingly. An attempt has been made in this paper to give a conceptual analysis of some methods like role playing, drama, literacy activities, games & sports, yoga etc. based upon joyful learning approaches which are best suited to teach peace education at every sphere of education with a number of suggested activities.
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