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Integrating CSE into Classroom Practice: Approaches to Peace Education and Cultural Responsiveness

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Integrating CSE into Classroom Practice: Approaches to Peace Education and Cultural Responsiveness

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Course Description

Conflict Sensitive Education (CSE) is specifically designed to be flexible and catering to a changing context. It is inclusive and based on principles of equity, social justice in order to address causes and drivers of conflict. It is also consistent with protection needs for teachers and children by providing psychosocial support (PSS), building on socio-emotional learning principles which you learnt about in the course “Understanding Your Students”. In this course, we will look at some example methods and approaches for applying the principles of inclusion, equity, peace and social justice in your classroom practice and help students also to practice important life skills such as conflict mitigation and resolution – a key skill for learning how to live together. Providing opportunities for students to apply these life skills and affirmation of behaviour that promotes inclusion, equity and social justice is therefore a feature of peace education. As a teacher of peace education, your role is to develop your skills in culturally-responsive pedagogy. Doing so builds positive, social identities for students and sensitises you yourself to the ways in which the mandated curriculum excludes some and privileges others. You are then able to nurture a generation of students who are academically prepared, socially aware, culturally sensitive, and ready to have a role in conflict resolution and create a more inclusive and equitable society.

The course covers the following modules:

Module 1. Education for Peace

1.1. What is CSE and why do teachers have an important role?

1.2 Effective learning and teaching as a foundation for Education for Peace

1.3. Education for Peace Competencies

Module 2. Culturally-responsive pedagogy

2.1. Essential characteristics of culturally-responsive teachers

2.2. Cultural Knowings Framework

Key terms

Barriers to learning; Conflict; Conflict Sensitive Assessment; Conflict Sensitive Curriculum; Conflict Sensitive Education; Conflict resolution; Constructive responses; Cooperative learning; Critical consciousness; Cultural competence; Cultural safety; Culturally responsive pedagogy; Destructive responses; Differentiation; Effective learning; Emotional wellness; Esteem needs; Exclusion; Feedback; Inclusion; Inclusive education; INEE Minimum Standards; Intellectual wellness, Learning to be; Learning to do; Learning to know; Learning to live together; Learning objective; Learning principles; Learning progressions; Learning to transform society and oneself; Peace education; Reflectiveness; Resilience; Safe and supportive learning environment; Well-being

Course Objectives

This course prepares learners to understand and practise the principles, approaches, and strategies for creating a safe and supportive learning environment conducive to maximising the positive impacts of education and therefore the prevention of new conflicts in conflict-prone settings.

Learning Outcomes

By the end of this course, teachers will be able to

Define CSE and explain why teachers have an important role;
Identify linkages between teachers, teaching, CSE and Education for Peace;
Correlate the five learning pillars with the integration of CSE in practice;
Reflect on key activities for developing peace competencies and how these address conflict situations;
Propose additional activities for developing peace competencies;
Develop a holistic view of what a culturally-responsive teacher achieves in their classroom practice;
Identify learning activities that correlate with both the characteristics of cultural-responsiveness and the Cultural Knowings Framework; and
Identify the peace competencies that are developed through culturally-responsive learning activities.

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Lectures

Introduction

Module 1. Education for Peace

Module 1 Expected Learning Outcomes and Competencies Gained

1.1. What is CSE and why do teachers have an important role?

1.2 Effective learning and teaching as a foundation for Education for Peace

Stop and Reflect Activity for Module 1.2.

Stereotyping, prejudice and discrimination

CSE Values

Five Pillars of Learning

M 1.2. Quiz

1.3. Education for Peace Competencies

Peace competencies

Active Listening

Stop and Reflect Activity for Active Listening

Self-awareness: Constructive and Destructive Responses to Conflict

M 1.3. Quiz

Stop and Reflect Activity for Self-awareness

Non-violent communication

In Practice Activity for Non-violent Communication

Non-violent Communication - Continued

Module 1. Quiz

Module 1. Summary

Module 2. Culturally-responsive pedagogy

Module 2 Expected Learning Outcomes and Competencies Gained

2.1. Essential characteristics of culturally-responsive teachers

Culturally responsive pedagogy

In Practice Activity for M 2.1.

2.2. The Cultural Knowings Framework

In Practice Activity for Module 2.2.

Module 2. Quiz

Module 2. Summary

Summary

Final reflection

Course summary

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