Peace Education Center, Teachers College Columbia University
TRAININGS & WORKSHOPS
Fall 2005

Peacemaking and Conflict: A Holistic Approach

ITSF4094.017/CRN 33094 (“Educational Planning in IED”)
September 23-24, September 30-October 1, 2005
Fridays (4:00pm-9:00pm), Saturdays (9:00am-6:00pm)
Available for 2 credits @ $935 per credit or 2.6 CEU’s@ $400
Instructor: Janet Gerson

This course explores the spectrum and interrelationship of approaches to conflict toward management, resolution forgiveness, and transformation. Core peace education concepts, values, knowledge and skills will provide a framework for understanding. The course will also provide specific methodologies, international and regional lesson samples suited to elementary, middle and secondary levels. Adaptability to students’ learning settings will be emphasized.

Peace Education Perspectives on Security: Alternatives to War and Armed Conflict

ITSF 4094.018/CRN 33814 (“Educational Planning in IED”)
October 7-8, 14-15, 2005
Fridays (4:00pm-9:00pm), Saturdays (9:00am-6:00pm)
Available for 2 credits @ $935 per credit or 2.6 CEU’s@ $400
Instructor: Leonisa Ardizzone

Issues of security are a central concern of educating for peace. The question of what constitutes security and its connection to global problems and relationships are addressed in this intensive workshop. Special emphasis will be placed on possibilities of curricular implementation of the United Nations study on disarmament and non-proliferation education and the special challenges it raises for peace education. Participants will be guided and assisted in formulating their own learning units on alternatives to force and violence.

Education for a Culture of Peace & Justice: Human Rights Perspectives

ITSF 4094. (section TBD)/CRN (TBD)
October 28-29; November 4-5, 2005
Fridays (4:00pm-9:00pm), Saturdays (9:00am-6:00pm)
Available for 2 credits @ $935 per credit or 2.6 CEU’s @ $400
Instructor: Peter Lucas

This is an intensive two weekend workshop on how to design human rights curriculum for schools or informal NGO education environments. Thematically, the class will focus on “child labor.” The curriculum projects will revolve around a documentary film set in Bangladesh, “A Kind of Childhood.” We begin with the documentary (to be placed in the middle of the curriculum) and then the class will create modules about child labor which will wrap around the film. Students will break up according to areas of interest such as early childhood, middle school, secondary school, and adult education, to create a finished group lesson on child labor to present to the class by the end of the second weekend. The class is set up as a workshop environment and much of the design and curriculum writing will happen in the class during the second weekend. Readings outside of class will offer an introduction to peace education, human rights education, and child labor. For educators, students should leave the class with many new ideas about how to design human rights curriculum projects on any theme and how to fold human rights into existing educational environments. More broadly, the class should interest students who would like to study the intersection of media and human rights/peace education.

REGISTRATION & CONTACT INFORMATION
If you are already a Teachers College student you may register for our workshops as normal (via the phone or web) without prior instructor approval. For non-credit or non-matriculated registration for our trainings or workshops, please contact The Center for Educational Outreach & Innovation (CEO&I) by phone 800-209-1245 or by email: ceoi_mail@tc.columbia.edu .

For further information, please visit us on the web at: www.tc.edu/PeaceEd
Or contact us by phone or email: peace-ed@tc.edu / 212.678.8116

Tony Jenkins
Coordinator (Director of Administration and Research)
Peace Education Center, Teachers College Columbia University
General Coordinator, International Institute on Peace Education
Peace Education Center * Teachers College - Box 171
Columbia University * New York, New York 10027
(Office Address 278 Grace Dodge)
Tel: (212) 678-8116 * Fax: (212) 678-8237
Web: www.tc.edu/PeaceEd