EDITORIAL
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Foto: World Bank Photo Collection
To build peace we need ideas and values, but also instruments
Rafael GrasaThe theme of this issue of Por la Paz/Peace in Progress is the single subject of the role of supervisory committees and the analysis of textbooks in the creation of a culture of peace and in education for peace.
As I provocatively said a few years ago, educating for peace, human rights and solidarity in the academic and social field calls for radical prudence: prudence, because it is necessary to progressively set reasonable objectives in order to achieve changes, and radical, meaning going to the roots and starting from the roots, because we have to consider the final objectives from the very beginning, both in analysis (what is criticised and what needs to be changed) and in expected results (what is expected in order to build). Radical prudence against tactical impatience.
IN DEPTH
INTRODUCTION
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Cécile Barbeito and Míriam Acebillo are researchers and educators for peace
Cécile Barbeito and Míriam AcebilloBased on a proposal at the 1st Catalan Conference on the Movement for Peace held in Barcelona in November 2009, the International Catalan Institute for Peace (ICIP) has supported research into the values promoted by Catalan textbooks, beginning with social science textbooks in the fourth year of secondary education.
The aim of the research is to contribute to the general objective of facilitating the addition of criteria of education for peace into textbooks and was carried out by a team composed of history teachers and educators for peace. A dialectical process was also included through fourth-year secondary education teachers, authors and publishers of these textbooks, which resulted in the report Anàlisi dels llibres de text de ciències socials des d’una perspectiva de pau (Quart d’ESO, 2008-2011) ) (Analysis of social science textbooks from a perspective of peace – fourth-year secondary education, 2008-2011).
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CENTRAL ARTICLES
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On the Scientific and Ideological Nature of the Social Sciences
Jaume Botey -
How to talk about wars in the classroom
Gemma Tribó -
The culture of peace in the classroom
Joan Camós and Albert Marzà -
The construction of peace for citizenship and human rights: main indicators
M.Carme Boqué (Coord.), Mònica Albertí, Montserrat Alguacil, Elena Carrillo, Laura García-Raga, Mercè Pañellas and Cèlia Rosich
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FINDING OUT MORE
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Websites and blogs
In the wide range of information that you can find on the internet about education, there is a lot about resources for teachers (workshops, games, activities, suggestions etc.). These types of sites can be found in various languages and generally offer resources free of charge. The following compilation presents some of these sites and also gives information about the educational programme websites for peace of various organisations.
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INTERVIEW
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10 questions for Steven Stegers, Senior Manager of EUROCLIO - European Association of History Educators
Xavier AlcaldeWe are talking to Steven Stegers, from the European Association of History Educators. He has contributed to projects that promote history in an innovative and responsible way, as well as state education in the Balkans, the Caucasus, in Central Europe and in the Euro-Mediterranean region. He is also the general coordinator of Historiana, an educational programme about European history and heritage (www.historiana.eu). He has a degree in Social and Organisational Psychology from the Leiden University and has carried out research in the History Department of Georgetown University in Washington D.C.
PLATFORM
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Violent firearm-related deaths in Brazil
Aritz García -
The psychology of North Korea
Francesc Pont
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