Teaching Our Way Out of the Cave: How Peace and Conflict Educators are Challenging War, Violence, and Human Suffering

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TEACHING OUR WAY OUT OF THE CAVE
How Peace and Conflict Educators Challenge War, Violence, and Human Suffering
Daryn Cambridge
Peace Educator in Residence
American University
darync@american.edu

2.  What is the current state and perception of
global conflict?
 How can the content we teach be reflected
in the way we teach?

3. What is the current state and perception
of global conflict?

6. How can the content we teach be
reflected in the way we teach?

8. COMMUNITY BUILDING
Finding things that unite and bind us together as a learning
group, while at the same time respecting and celebrating our
differences.
Recommended Resource: Cocktail Party / Thought-Provoking Questions

9. COMMUNITY BUILDING
Recommended Resource: Cocktail Party / Thought-Provoking Questions

10. ENABLING MULTIPLE INTELLIGENCES
Balancing the learning experience by engaging students in ways
that play to their strengths as learners while also challenging them
to develop, acknowledge, and value other forms of intelligence.
Recommended Resource: Multiple Intelligences Quiz

11. ENABLING MULTIPLE INTELLIGENCES
Recommended Resource: Multiple Intelligences Quiz

12. NURTURING EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE
Acknowledging the emotions, feelings, and experiences that each
learner brings to the learning environment and helping them find
ways to cope with those emotions and navigate those social
interactions. Nurturing compassion and empathy among students
in ways that allow them to be sensitive and aware of each other’s
emotions.
Recommended Resource: Social and Emotional Learning on Edutopia.org

13. NURTURING EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE
Recommended Resource: Social and Emotional Learning on Edutopia.org

14. EXPLORING APPROACHES TO PEACE
Breaking down an ideal, overarching concept of peace into
manageable bites and methods of actualization.
Recommended Resource: Ian Harris’ Seven Strategies for Peace

15. EXPLORING APPROACHES TO PEACE
Recommended Resource: Ian Harris’ Seven Strategies for Peace

16. REFRAMING HISTORY
Challenging the dominance of violence and war in the narratives of
cultures, countries, and peoples. Changing the lens through which
we look at major historical shifts, construct heroes, and develop
cultural norms.
Recommended Resource: Cultures of Peace: The Hidden Side of History by Elise Boulding

17. REFRAMING HISTORY
Recommended Resource: Cultures of Peace: The Hidden Side of History by Elise Boulding

18. TRANSFORMING CONFLICT NONVIOLENTLY
Embracing the inevitability of conflict by practicing nonviolent ways
to wage it, manage it, and resolve it.
Recommended Resource: The Little Book of Restorative Justice by Howard Zehr

19. TRANSFORMING CONFLICT NONVIOLENTLY
Recommended Resource: The Little Book of Restorative Justice by Howard Zehr

20. SKILL BUILDING
Building, practicing, and adopting life skills that empower
individuals to bring about peace in the world around them –
interpersonal skills, intrapersonal skills, analytical skills, conflict
resolution skills, organizing skills, and learning skills.

21. Click link to watch the Malala Yousafzai Daily Show interview
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjGL6YY6oMs

22. Questions / Comments / Reflections