Early Childhood and Primary Education for Peace (E..
Early Childhood and Primary Education for Peace (ECPEFP)
The project tackles the issue of violence and would like to implement a Culture of Peace and Nonviolence, as stated by UNESCO in its manifesto declaring 2001-2010 as the decade for Peace and Non-Violence. The project aims to address this issue according to a preventive perspective and will both develop and introduce a pilot anti-violence training programme, directed particularly at the teachers and trainers of young people from 0-16 years old. The training programme will comprise three modules (sexual & physical violence, psychological violence and economic & social violence), which will draw upon the experience related by 9 individuals representing the 3 partners countries. The pilot course along with a pedagogic-didactic support mechanism will be tested by a pilot group comprising those individuals having presented their own experience for the development of the 3 training modules. Through improving the skills and abilities of educators and through new approaching to teaching and learning skills on the Peace Culture, the course expects the future support a culture of peace in young people. The partnership itself involves universities promoting teaching training and organization responsible for training of the trainers (TOT), both able to implement the pilot course beyond the lifetime of the project. Project dissemination will include the distribution of a CD-ROM containing the eventual pilot course to existing partner networks of training and teacher training institutions, development of a dedicated project website, the hosting a promotional workshop on the theme of violence and the publication of associated workshop documentation. All products will be made available in English, Turkish, Spanish, and German.
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