How can teachers explore conflict with young people safely? This session will share practical strategies for promoting a culture of peace and nonviolence in the classroom and beyond.
We will look at models and activities to explore our relationship with conflict and how to cultivate peacemaking skills. Drawing on nonviolent communication and restorative practice, participants will look at activities and strategies to help young people understand their own thoughts, feelings and actions in conflict, and to empathise with others.
We will look at how these insights can be applied across the curriculum from Literacy to Social Studies to engage with global issues like armed conflict and the climate emergency. We will look at how teachers ensure at ‘a balanced approach to exploring political issues’ (Education Scotland, 2013) by reflecting on how they can address major conflicts and events in the classroom on “days after”.
Our courses are highly interactive, both to model the participatory global citizenship approach, and also so we can introduce activities and methodologies for use in the classroom. This course will make use of breakout rooms and simple digital participation tools (all necessary instructions will be given). It can be hard to participate fully on a phone or tablet, so we highly recommend you join the course on a desktop or laptop computer, with your microphone and video enabled.
If you have particular access needs, please contact faith@wosdec.org.uk so we can work together to create as positive an experience for you as we can.
We have designed this course to be engaging, relevant and thought-provoking. Please join the course in a reasonably quiet place if possible, and do what you can to bring your full participation and focus to the session.