What we offer
Our Next skills share workshop will be:
Peace and justice through story | 7 November, 2019
The Network will host a skill share on 7 November for educators to develop their practice will be from Twin Vision, a multi media charity which was founded by twin brothers Paul and Gary McCann. Originally funded to teach photography to Deaf children in India, the project turned into a charity working with young people to produce their own video content.
Time: 1.30- 3.30pm | Venue Friend House, 173 Euston Road, London NW1 2BJ
PREVIOUS SKILLSHARES
Peace and justice through story | Monday 17 June, 2019
The Network will host a skill share on 17 June for educators to develop their practice.
Rowena Seabrook from Amnesty International UK will share ways to use story to explore human rights and peace, utilising picture books and poetry to bring them alive.
1.30-3.30pm, Friends House, Euston Road, London NW1 2BJ
Book your free place by emailing isabelc@quaker.org.uk
Amnesty UK’s Education team produce creative and engaging teaching resources for a wide range of issues suitable for all ages as well as working with volunteer educators and teachers across the UK. Rowena is the Human Rights Education Manager and specialises in projects using children’s books to explore human rights.
Teaching controversial issues | Monday 11 March, 2019
Joe Jukes from CND Peace Education will be introducing some techniques for using ‘controversial issues’ to help students understand their own various political and social positions. With conversations of gender and race becoming increasingly common, the way that education can handle these concepts can be more adventurous, creative and critical. The session will introduce some topics and methods for exploring marginalisation, power and agency, using nuclear weapons politics as an example, and will consider any assumptions we might reproduce in our practice.
A Facing History Approach to Remembrance | 22 October, 2018
Michelle Perkins of Facing History and Ourselves UK will model learning activities for engaging young people in a searching educational approach to Remembrance. As we approach the centenary of the World War I armistice on 11 November 2018, we will look at the way we memorialise war and peace. These educational techniques can be applied to different controversial topics from history such as civil rights, forced migration and mass violence.
1.30-3.30pm, Friends House, Euston Road, London NW1 2BJ
RSVP: ellisb@quaker.org.uk
About Our Workshops:
PEN hosts a skills share workshop three times a year open for education professionals each one exploring a different aspect, strategy, or skill of peace education. All are welcome to the skills share, we ask you to contact the chair beforehand just to keep track of numbers. Previous Skills Share Workshops have included:
- Rethinking Security
- Rewriting the Headlines
- The Foundation for Peace
- Eyewitness in the Classroom
- Dial M for Missile
- Fly Kites Not Drones
- Exploring the reality of military life
- Over the Top: A dramatic response to militarisation in education
- Is there a problem with military in education?
- Inspiring a New Generation of Activists
- Building a School for Peace
- Peace Education and the Centenary of World War One
- How can we achieve social change without violence?
- Peace and Human Rights
- Conflict Resolution Education
- Youth Refusing Violence
- Pressure Groups
- Conflict Resolution Using Drama Techniques
Free to Download Resources
CND Peace Education Resources
- Contains 6 lesson plans exploring peace and nuclear issues
- Covers English, Citizenship, Religious Studies, Science, History and Politics at Key Stages 3 to 5
- All based on active and cooperative learning
- Explores the story of a little girl who tried to make 1000 origami cranes as a sign of peace after the Hiroshima bomb
- Aimed at Key Stage 2 and 3. Covers English, Citizenship, Religious Studies and Art & Design
- Contains the story, lesson plans, literacy activities and instructions to make the cranes
Under Pressure: How Pressure Groups Operate
- CND is given as an example of a pressure group and young people are encouraged to build their own campaign on an issue they feel strongly about
- Aimed at Key Stage 4 and 5 for Citizenship, Politics and English
- Contains 3 lesson plans and additional materials
- Contains 3 main lesson plans and a range of resources empowering students to create a mock trial of President Truman to investigate whether he was justified or not justified in the dropping on atomic bombs in Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
- Covers English, Citizenship, Religious Studies and History
- All based on active and cooperative learning.
- Seven innovative and cross-curricular lesson plans on the Cold War, particularly the Cuban Missile Crisis
- Highly relevant History, Citizenship, Politics, and English
- Includes a role-play strategy game, a drama activity on Civil Defence, and lots more, with multiple opportunities to compare and contrast to the world situation today
All of these resources are here.
Pax Christi Resources
General RE Peace Scheme of Work
- A scheme of work to slot into any Catholic Sixth Form College’s General RE programme it enables the learner to think critically about the theology and scripture that inform Christian work for peace.
- This workshop explores the life and witness of Franz Jägerstätter and what his story can teach us about the Christian vocation to peacemaking.
These and other Pax Christi peace education resources can be found here.
Quaker Peace and Social Witness resources
Conscience (primary/lower secondary)
- A WW1 critical thinking project. More information here
- A WW1 critical thinking project. More information here
- Explore the many roles women took on during World War One. Download the full pack [pdf: 292kb]
Forces Watch resources
ForcesWatch resources include overviews of the UK military’s influence in schools; a short film exploring teenagers varying views on the Cadets; and reports questioning the armed forces visits to – and provision of learning resources to – schools. Workshop guides for schools coming soon
These ForcesWatch materials can be found here
Peacemakers (WMQPEP) Resources
Free Citizenship “Creative Conflict Handling” CD Rom
Interactive videos explore a wide range of conflicts that young people may encounter, and explores strategies for responding positively and creatively. Lesson plans are included.
Available from peacemakers. Contact peacemakers for a free copy.
Scottish CND RESOURCES
- The nuclear weapons debate
- Nuclear explosions
- Trident
- Pressure Groups
Each pack contains a three minute video, a resource booklet, and a variety of challenges and activities. They link with a wide variety of curriculum areas.
To download them or request a free DVD visit Scottish CND Peace Education
Peacemaker Briefings:
Recommended Books/DVDs
Peace Education: Academic
SHAPIRO, H. (2010) Educating Youth for a World Beyond Violence: A Pedagogy for Peace (Education, Politics and Public Life) NY: Palgrave Macmillan
BAJAJ, M. (ed.) (2008) Encyclopedia of Peace Education. Charlotte: Information Age.
Peace Education: Practical
KELSEY, FRY AND DHILLON 2010 The Rax Active Citizenship Toolkit New Internationalist Publications Ltd
Peace: General
GALTUNG, J AND Jacobsen, C. (2002) Searching for Peace: The Road to TRANSCEND (Critical Peace Studies: Peace by Peaceful Means Transcend) Pluto Press
Peer Mediation
CREMIN, C. (2007) Peer Mediation: Citizenship and Social Inclusion in Action Open University Press
Restorative Approaches in Education
HOPKINS, B. 2003 Just Schools: A Whole School Approach to Restorative Justice Jessica Kingsley
HOPKINS, B.2011 The Restorative Classroom Optimus Education