EDU 101: CONTEMPORARY INDIA

AND EDUCATION
MODULE 3 (3.6)- PEACE
EDUCATION AND INCLUSIVE
EDUCATION
INCLUSIVE EDUCATION
 INCLUSIVE EDUCATION
• Inclusive Education (IE) is an approach to improve the education system
by limiting and removing barriers to learning and acknowledging
individual children's needs and potential.
• Central to the programme of IE is the belief that education makes a
powerful contribution to the social construction of the inclusive
communities and an inclusive society
 INCLUSIVE EDUCATION
• Welcomes diversity.
• Benefits for all learners, not only
those who have been previously
marginalized or excluded.
• Providing equal access to education
and becoming more flexible and
adaptive for certain children,
without excluding them.
• Not about special schools, but
more about individual support to
students who need such things
within the regular educational
system.
• Is not about reform of special
education alone, but reform of
both formal and non-formal
education system.
 IE INVOLVES
• Awareness raising and often, the change of attitude at all levels of the
society.
• Support to schools with enrolment of children in need of special attention.
• Development of community participation.
• Development and supply of teaching and learning material and aids.
• Development of academic, professional and institutional capabilities and
capacities at the national and district level.
 BENEFITS
• More active learning ( doing,talking and trying out).
• Less passive learning.
• More responsibility is given to students for their work, goal setting and
monitoring.
• Less stress on competition and grading.
• More attention for emotional needs and different cognitive styles of
individual students.
 INCLUSIVE EDUCATION
• Based on the belief that the right to education is a basic human right for all
children and is the foundation for social justice.
• IE takes the Education for All (EFA) agenda forward ,by finding ways of
enabling schools to serve all children in their communities, as part of a
national education system.
• IE is about transforming mainstream systems (policies and practices)into
more responsive systems .
• IE recognizes that every child has unique characteristics.
 IE – COMMON BELIEFS
• All children can learn.
• All children are different.
• Differences can and should be valued.
• Learning is enhanced through cooperation with teachers,parents,and the
community.
• Societies are involved in creating differences .
• We all belong and have a role in society.
 PEACE EDUCATION
A Transformative Response to Major Societal Challenges
 WHAT IS PEACE EDUCATION ?

Peace education is the process of acquiring the

values, the knowledge and developing the
attitudes,skills,and behaviours to live in harmony
with oneself, with others, and with the natural
environment
 MAIN CONCEPTS
• Anti- nuclearism.
• International understanding.
• Environmental responsibility
• Nonviolence.
• Human rights awareness.
• Coexistence and gender equality.
• Tolerance of diversity.
CONFLICT RESOLUTION TRAINING
• Training individuals to resolve inter-personal disputes through techniques of
negotiation and mediation
• Peace education programs focus on the social behavioural symptoms of
conflict
• Learning to manage anger and improve communication through skills such
as listening ,identifying needs, separating facts from emotions etc
 DEMOCRACY EDUCATION
• Peace education programs centered on democracy education typically
focus on the political processes associated with conflict, and postulate
that with an increase in democratic participation the likelihood of
societies resolving conflict through violence and war decreases .
 AIMS
• To explore concepts of peace both as a state of being and as an active
process .
• To enquire into the obstacles of peace and the causes of peacelessness, both
in individuals, institutions, and societies.
• To resolve conflicts in ways that will lead towards a less violent and a more
just world.
• To explore a range of different alternative futures, in particular ways of
building a more just and sustainable world society .
 CONCLUSION
• Encompasses the key concepts of education and peace
• Help students acquire skills for nonviolent conflict resolution and to reinforce these
skills for active and responsible action in the society for the promotion of the valves
of peace
• Aim is to prevent a conflict in advance or rather to educate individuals and a society
for a peaceful existence on the basis of nonviolence, tolerance,equality,respet for
differences, and social justice
• The complex systems of society, the circumstances, and the context make the peace
education field very active and diverse
 THANK YOU

By SOUMYA GEORGE