CONSCIENTIZATION PROGRAMME
NEED AND SIGNIFICANCE OF PEACE EDUCATION AND NATIONAL
INTEGRATION
INTRODUCTION
Peace education is the process of acquiring the knowledge,
values, attitudes, skills, and behaviour to live in harmony with oneself and
others and with the natural environment. The issue of war and peace has always
been a social issue in all periods of history and at all levels. All religions
advocate peace and elimination of war. In contemporary time, the most urgent of
issues has been to preserve the protect the values and establish peace and
strongly condemn terrorism and enemies of peace.
OBJECTIVES
·
The
students should be able to understand the meaning and importance of peace.
·
The
students should be able to understand the benefits and conditions of peace and
the need to create a peaceful environment in the schools.
·
Identify
the major barriers to peace find ways to overcome them in life.
ORGANISATION OF ACTIVITIES
As part of the B. Ed curriculum and practice, we trainees
conducted a conscientization programme during our training session. We had to
select a socially relevant topic considering the mentalities of the students of
S.N.Trust H.S.S. Our team decided to select ‘Peace Education and National
Integration-Need and Significance’ and approached our HM who gave us consent to
conduct on 30th January for IX standard students.
On 30th January, we invited HM, teaching staff,
and non-teaching staff to attend our programme at 1:30pm. We started our prayer
with a tribute to almighty God with a prayer song. Then our HM made the students aware of the relevance
of the programme and asked the students to make maximum use of it. Then we continued
with the programme.
The prospective
teachers Shameena and jency gave an introduction about peace education. Then
honey and Jeena Joy took class on need and significance. During the they
explained about current condition of society and their need for peace
education. Diana dealt with importance of peace education incurrent society. Ancy
James,Geethu Johnson and Surya Raj explained ‘how to impart peace education in
students. The students were very active in the class.
A teacher’s main role is to promote learning and to assist
all of their students to experience intellectual, social and emotional
development and growth. The points were incorporated and Gandhian views on
peace education was explained by Bindu K Nair followed by Ameera Khalid who
gave a conclusion to the topic. Then we collected feedback from the class by
asking their experience about the class. Then we ended our awareness programme
with national anthem.
FEEDBACK FROM STUDENTS
Almost all the students who attended opined that the class
was very beneficial and effective. Some opined more programmes like these must
be conducted in schools. They recommended that peace education must also be
included in the curriculum. On the whole, majority gave a good opinion about
our programme.
FINDINGS AND SUGGESTIONS
·
Peace
education in areas of conflicts have a severe issue such as conflicting
collective narratives.
·
These
awareness programmes yields positive attitudes better ability to see the other
side perspective.
·
It
promotes and encourages to regards all as equal and strengthen unity .
Suggestions include;
·
Students
must be made aware of the threats around them.
·
Proper
awareness and counseling classes should be provided frequently to the students.
·
Peace
education should be imparted in the curriculum.
CONCLUSION
The topic ‘need and significance of peace education and
national integration’ was selected and conducted smoothly. The teachers
congratulated us for the programme. The awareness programme had a great effect
on the students. Thus the conscientization programme was very effective and relevant
to the present scenario of the school.
REFERENCE
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http://www.insightonconflict.org
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http://www.unicef.org
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http://www.ei-ie.org
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