Teaching GuideTerm
Faculty of Educational Studies
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Grao en Educación Social
 Subjects
  Education for Peace, Conflict Resolution and Citizenship
   Contents
Topic Sub-topic
1. On the production and reproduction of multiple forms of violence in society, and the need for Peace Education (PE) and a sense of citizenship. - The postcolonial era and neocolonialism.
- On the organizers of the world order and violence in its multiple manifestations: neoliberal globalization, the military-industrial-research complex, wars, terrorism, secondary effects of globalized exploitation, racism and patriarchy.
- Is there a so-called "clash of civilizations"?
- Discrimination, marginalization, oppression, poverty and exclusion, with special attention to gender violence.
- The privatization of the public sphere: general effects, effects on education.
- Human rights: high and low points.
- Counter-hegemonic resistance.
2. Educating for Peace in historical-normative and transnational perspective.
- Precursors.
- The New School.
- The UNESCO.
- Research : Peace and Conflict Studes.
- Nonviolence (Gandhi).
- Educating for Peace in Spain: new frameworks and legal instruments.
3. Pedagogy for citizenship and human rights in cosmopolitan societies. - Human rights and democratic citizenship.
- Concept of human rights: its historical genesis.
- The situation of human rights in the world.
- Critical Pedagogy, Cultural Studies, Ecological Education, Decolonial Studies, Feminist Studies, Queer Studies.
- Conflict, coexistence and democratic and active participation in society.
- Main educational programs in favor of coexistence and citizenship.
- The role of Emotional Education in the pedagogy of coexistence.
- Relevant regulations.
- Teaching/learning principles and organizational strategies.
- The role of social educators.
- Resources and materials.
- Possibilities for intervention.
4. Educating for peace: educational contexts, curricular issues and methodological, organizational and dynamic strategies. - The concept of positive and sustainable peace.
- The creative vision of the conflict.
- Components of PE (nonviolence, aggressiveness vs. aggression, civil disobedience, peace culture, etc.).
- The socio-critical-conflictive model of peace, among other models.
- The socio-affective teaching-learning method.
- Educational advantages of collaborative, cooperative and collectivizing processes.
- The role of cooperative games in group creation: types and characteristics.
- Exhibition of different learning dynamics and cooperative games.
- The role of empathy, respect, affectivity, mutual support and solidarity in the pedagogical promotion of peace.
- The integration of PE in the school curriculum: transversality and transversal themes (Intercultural Education, gender diversity training, etc.).
- Peer Tutoring (TEI), restorative practices, and other educational approaches that promote peace.
5. The role of conflict in human coexistence and nonviolent conflict resolution. - The status of coexistence and conflict in schools: main research.
- Conflicts and their structure.
- Ways of coping with (and overcoming) conflict: conflict resolution.
- Intervention processes.
- Negotiation and mediation in conflicts.
- Restorative Justice and restorative practices and circles.
- Resources and materials.
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