Slow Peace in Action: Starting a Movement Among Educators

• In Event: Roundtable Session 32
  In Roundtable Session: Successes and Challenges in Working With Schools and Educators on Peace Programs

Abstract

This paper documents the on-going story of educators who began their inquiry into peaceful practice at the Mahatma Gandhi Summer Institute for Building Peaceful Communities at the University of Alberta. It provides an account of their individual and collective journeys as they seek to develop their own approaches to pedagogies of peace. Following from others (e.g. Bickmore, 2006; Joshee, 2004; Joshee & Thomas, 2015) we approach education for peace as a particular form of education for democratic practice. The paper discusses challenges and successes as we seek to clarify our approach to education for peace and to understand our evolving idea of slow peace.

Authors

• Reva Joshee, OISE/University of Toronto

• Margaret Shane, Alberta Teachers Assn

• Kristi Mahood, Edmonton Public Schools

• Simone Shirvell, Edmonton Public School Board

• Monica Thomas, Riverdale School

• Ariel Bowering

• Carol Knott, Elk Island Public Schools