Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
This innovative, much-needed book shares powerful wisdom and practical strategies to help language teachers, teacher educators and peace educators communicate peace, contribute to peace and weave peacebuilding into classrooms and daily life. The clear, six-part Language of Peace Approach underlies more than 50 creative activities that can promote peacebuilding competence in secondary and post-secondary students, current and prospective educators and community members outside of academia. Chapters span the spectrum from cross-cultural peace education to the positive psychology of peace, from nonverbal peace language to transformative language teaching for peace, and from the needs of language learners to the needs of language educators. The book makes a unique and valuable contribution to the discussion of how we can live together peacefully in a changing world.
Synopsis
This book shares powerful wisdom and practical strategies to help language teachers, learners, teacher educators and others communicate peace, contribute to peace and weave peacebuilding into the language classroom and daily life. The chapters utilise a clear, six-part model (the Language of Peace Approach) that is useful for language education, peace education and in other disciplines. Along with a holistic approach to the elements of peacebuilding, the book offers nearly four dozen peace-language activities for use with adult learners and with students in secondary and post-secondary education. The book makes a unique and valuable contribution to the discussion of how we can live peacefully together in a changing world.
Synopsis
This book shares wisdom and strategies to help language teachers, teacher educators, and peace educators communicate peace, contribute to peace and weave peacebuilding into classrooms and daily life. The book's Language of Peace Approach and more than 50 creative activities nurture peacebuilding skills in students, educators and the community.