001- CAR Pedagogy

CAR Pedagogy

Can education prepare people to productively engage in responding to conflict and addressing root causes of violence and injustice? Can it assist those seeking transformation of destructive and durable conflict dynamics? If so, how? What are the theories, values, vision and practices that guide how we might approach both the design and implementation of conflict resolution education? Where is this work being done and what are the challenges and opportunities that arise for practioners in various contexts?

This course will look broadly at the challenges and opportunities of designing and facilitating contemporary conflict resolution education. The main focus will be on pedagogy, how we facilitate learning processes, the social and political commitments underlying those approaches and how those approaches impact student learning.

This course design is grounded in experiential education and will provide numerous opportunities for students to engage in participatory activities such educational theater, workshop facilitation techniques, the use of multi-media tools and other approaches in class. The course will offer opportunities to design and facilitate pedagogical activities and students will also conduct research on class themes and make their research available to other educators and communities online through the website peacelearner.org that has visitors from over 90 different countries.

Conflict Resolution education will be framed as a living global system of educational praxis, comprised of dynamic networks of people from around the globe, working within and across highly varied contexts.