FPE101 Module Week 1
FPE101 Module Week 1
FPE101 Module Week 1
INTRODUCTION
Mindanao State University (MSU) was created under Republic Act No. 1387,
amended, enacted on June 18, 1955 by the Philippine Congress, Dr. Antonio Isidro
as its founding president.
MSU started as a one-campus University and though the years it expanded into a
System University comprising eight (8) autonomous campuses located in the different
areas of the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM), and in
other regions of Mindanao,
NAMELY:
1. MSU-Marawi (Main Campus)
2. MSU IIT-Iligan
3. MSU TCTO-Tai-Tawi
4. MSU General Santos
5. MSU-Maguindano
6. MSU-Sulu
7. MSU Naawan
8. MSU-Buug
MSU System Also integrated the following three (3) CHED-Supervised institutions:
1. Lanao National College of Arts and Trade (LNCAT)
2. Lanao Norte Agricultural College (LNAC)
3. Maigo school of Arts and Trade (MSAT)
With its unique mission, MSU becomes a social laboratory for integration. MSU main
campus has always been a home to students from different places, tribes, and of
different religious beliefs and affiliations, during their schooling in the University.
The campus provides a conducive environment and atmosphere, inside and outside
the classrooms, for students to study as well as to fraternize and socialize.
Dormitories inside the campus served as their transient abode and because of the
University’s policy requiring students of diverse cultural backgrounds to be
roommates, their stay in the dormitories provides them more time and opportunity to
hobnob and know each other better.
Consequently, a peaceful co-existence among the students and constituents of the
University has been developed, experienced and observed in the campus since its
establishment several decades ago.
The success of MSU as a social laboratory for integration provides the foundation for
its eventual growth or evolution into a national Peace University.
On May 23, 2017, the Marawi siege took place reducing Marawi to a pile of rubbles
after several months of violent armed encounters between the extremist and military
forces.
The siege was a glaring manifestation of the perturbing presence of violent
extremists in the vicinity of, or right at the gates of the MSU main campus.
In response to this new alarming reality and challenge, the MSU System President,
Dr. Habib W. Macaayong, thought of institutionalizing the offering of a 3-unit course
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on peace education and to this end, he created the Committee for Peace Education
to craft syllabus on said course.
On December 20, 2017, the MSU-Board of Regents, through BOR Resolution No.
356, s. 2017, approved the offering of the 3-unit course Fundamental of Peace
Education course, MSU could help counter the rise of violent extremism and global
terrorism.
This course intends to produce students who will appreciate the value of life and
human dignity, the value of peace as a way of life and respect for diversity, pluralism
and multi-culturalism.
Journal Writing
1. “Share It” [Students are required to share their thoughts and feelings about MSU, and
their experiences in the campus].
2. Story-telling
Guide Questions:
a. Before coming to MSU, what information did you have about MSU?
b. After several days or weeks in Campus, what have you observed or experienced that
validated or invalidated that information?
c. Having stayed in the campus for quite some time, how do you feel now? What make
you feel that way?
d. Were you able to establish friendship with other students from different places, tribes or
of different religious affiliations?
Hugot Line
Activity
Write a hugot line or quote about peace and post it on your Facebook profile picture (Don’t
forget to tag your instructor’s name).
“Hugot” is a verb, which means “to pull/to draw out.” Hugot line is a statement, or quotation
which is something you learned/realized from experience; it is visceral, rising from deep and
strong emotions. Some of these lines are witty, characteristically with emotions.
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HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT
Peace education can be defined simply as:
The process of teaching people about the threats of violence and strategies for
peace.
May take place inside or outside a classroom (Harris, 2008, p.15).
With this broad definition, the history of peace education
is arguably as old as human history, as cultures throughout the world have learned-
and the taught the next generation-how to live peacefully with others.
Diverse religious and philosophical traditions have been a rich and influential source
of peace learning, even though people have also promoted violence in the name of
these traditions.
The development of peace education can be traced back to the end of World War I
(1914-1918)
This galvanized powerful support for the need of international cooperation and
understanding and helped instill a desire to include peace education ideas in the
educational systems.
A group of non-governmental organizations worked together on these ideas,
especially though the International Institute of intellectual Cooperation, an
organization that was the predecessor of the United Nations Educational, Scientific
and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).
The horror and destruction of the First World War led to the formation of the League
of Nations to prevent the occurrence of another war. This was however eventually
found to be a defective world organization.
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The Second World War in 1939 to 1945 brought untold miseries and sufferings of
the millions of victims, such as the execution of millions of Jews and the atomic
bombings of Nagasaki and Hiroshina in Japan.
The establishment of the United Nations in 1946 also gave birth to UNESCO
which was charge with planning, developing, and implementing general changes
in education according to the international politics of peace and security.
The horrors of both was entail reawakening to the need of developing the
humanistic side of education at least among a few educationists, such as Maria
Montessori’s loud and tireless reiteration on the need for educating for peace
(Rajaguru, 2016).
their world…. Peace building is the task of every human being and the challenge of
the human family. --Fran Schmidt and Alice Friedman (1988)
Peace education is the attempt to promote the development of an authentic planetary
consciousness that will enable us to function as global citizens and to transform the
present human condition by changing the social structures and patterns that have
created it.
--Betty Reardon (1988)
Peace education is a mechanism for the transformation from a culture of violence to
a culture of peace through a process of “conscientisation.”
---Freire (2006)
Peace education is teaching for and about human rights, gender equality,
disarmament, social and economic justice, non-violence, sustainable development,
international law, and traditional peace practices. ---Cors Weiss.
o Peace education is the process of promoting the knowledge, skills, attitudes
and values needed to bring about behaviour change that will enable children,
youth and adults to prevent conflict and violence, both overt and structural; to
resolve conflict peacefully; and to create the conditions conducive to peace,
whether at an interpersonal, intergroup, national of international level. –
UNICEF
Peace education is both a significant peace building strategy and an effective way of
preventing conflict. promotes a culture of peace and is essentially transformative. It
cultivates the knowledge base, skills, attitudes and values that seek to transform
people’s mindsets, attitudes and behaviors that, in the first place, have either created
or exacerbated violent conflicts. It seeks this transformation by building awareness
and understanding, developing concern and challenging personal and social action
that will enable people to live, relate and create conditions and systems that actualize
nonviolence, justice, environment care, and other peace values. – Castro and
Galace (2010)
The basic concepts embedded in the above definitions are that peace education is a
remedial measure to protect the youth and children from falling into the ways of
violence in society.
It aims at the total development, inculcates higher human and social values, and
develops set of behavioural skills necessary for peaceful living and peace building
from which the whole of humanity will benefit (UNESCO, 2015)
Global Education
Education for global citizenship has become increasingly important as the world has
become more interconnected through globalization.
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However, this does not mean that education to promote global citizens is a new
phenomenon that is inherently linked to the globalized world.
Global Education (GE) is defined as all programs, projects, studies and activities that
can help an individual learn and care more about the world beyond his or her
community, and to transcend his or her culturally conditioned, ethnocentric
perspectives, perception and behaviour (Fersh, 1990).
The Philippine Council for Peace and Global Education defines GE in its undated
brochure as: education for responsible participation in an interdependent world
community.
Tricia Jones argues that CRE has the following common goals:
1. To create a safe and constructive learning environment
2. To enhance students’ social and emotional development
3. To create a constructive conflict community
A group called the International Network for Conflict Resolution Education and Peace
Education (INCREPE), in cooperation with the Global Partnership for the Prevention
of Armed Conflict (GPPAC), has now seriously taken the challenge of promoting CRE
worldwide and is starting the effort by mapping the CRE and PE organizations by
regions.
Teaching students to become peacemakers involves creating a cooperative climate
that encourage parties to reach mutually acceptable solutions to disagreements.
CRE also includes training in anger management as well as skills in attentive
listening, effective communication, constructive dialogue and other positive
techniques to arrive at a win-win solution to conflicts.
When the relationship and the issue are both important, the collaborative problem
solving is an approach that is recommended.
CRE in the Philippines has also now moved on to using peer mediation as a way of
contributing to a culture of peace in a school community.
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CRE principles are now increasingly being used in Philippines schools, communities,
workplaces and government agencies, usually after some training on CRE.
The challenge of mainstreaming CRE principles in the various sectors throughout the
country is great, as the country has been suffering from protracted conflicts in
addition to other conflicts at many levels.
Multicultural Education
Multicultural Education is an educational movement that has developed first in
countries that are multicultural or have a culturally diverse population.
This is often the case in countries that have a history of receiving many immigrants
from all over the world as in the case of the United States and Australia.
In both the North and South countries, we see the presence of diverse cultures within
a society.
Hence, multicultural Education is often defined as one that “helps students to
understand and appreciate cultural differences and similarities and to recognize the
accomplishments of diverse groups.”
Teaching with a multicultural perspective encourages not only the appreciation and
understanding of other cultures but also of one’s own. It promotes the person’s sense
of the uniqueness of his own culture as a positive characteristic and enables one to
accept the uniqueness of the cultures of others.
Education for International Understanding
Besides the contribution of civil society in the promotion of Education for International
Understanding (EIU), the contribution of UNESCO to the development of EIU has
been significant.
After UNESCO adopted the “Recommendation concerning Education for
International Understanding, Cooperation and Peace and Education relating to
Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms” in 1974, this UN Agency has intensified
its efforts to harness education in the service of world peace.
In 1995, UNESCO came out with the “Declaration and Integrated Framework of
Action and Education for Peace, Human Rights and Democracy” whose primary
principles include the importance of education in promoting peace, human rights and
democracy; and the recognition of their intimate relationship.
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This was followed by this UN agency’s work to promote a culture of peace which
resulted in the United Nations declaration of the year 2000 as the International
Decade for Culture of Peace and Nonviolence for the Children of the World.
In all these Declarations it must be remembered that EIU is an integral part and that
EIU has taken a more holistic meaning, encompassing not only peace at the global
level but also its building blocks of nonviolent. Just and sustainable living in the other
levels of relationships.
The dynamic work that is now being undertaken to promote EIU and a culture of
peace has had the participation of many schools, organizations and other civil society
groups.
Interfaith Education
Interfaith Education refers to cooperative, constructive, and positive interaction
between people of different religious traditions (i.e., "faiths") and/or spiritual or
humanistic beliefs, at both the individual and institutional levels.
Interfaith education grew out of the interfaith movement, a movement with a
progressive agenda.
The interfaith movement began in 1893 at the World’s Parliament of religious
gathering in Chicago.
For the first time in history leaders of the so-called “Eastern” and “Western” religions
had come together for dialogue, seeking a common spiritual foundation for global
unity.
Since then many other interfaith organizations have arisen.
Organizers soon began to advance interfaith education that placed great value on
community visits, service learning and immersion experiences.
Thus, the field of interfaith education began to emerge.
The field of interfaith education was never clearer than after September 11, 2001 and
the consequent climate of social tension and conflict and incidence of discrimination
and hate crimes.
Interfaith education was now viewed as a morally and socially essential means for
countering discrimination and hate crimes and for promoting peace.
Development Education
In the 1960s, Development Education emerged to challenge the mainstream model
of development which the equated development with modernization.
It criticized the unjust and unsustainable economic order which has resulted in
hunger, homelessness and marginalization.
Concerned educators and NGOs have advocated the integration of the issues of
poverty and inequalities in the social studies curriculum and other subject areas as
well as in the community education contexts to raise consciousness.
Ian Harris describes the goal of development communication as building peaceful
communities by promoting an active democratic citizenry interested in the equitable
sharing of the world’s resources.
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Gender-fair/Non-sexist Education
The implications of gender for peace education are many and diverse.
Following the rise of popular feminism and in keeping with the social justice
movement of the late 1960s and onwards, effort to oppose sexism in schools have
been made and the overarching goal is to enable students to reach their full potential
regardless of their gender.
Gender-Fair Education (GFE) seeks to foster among the learners respect for the
abilities and rights of both sexes and to develop awareness of the gender biases and
stereotyping that have been culturally perpetuated in order to change these.
All students have the right to a gender-fair learning environment. All education
programs and career decisions should be based on the student's interests and
abilities, regardless of gender.
Gender-fair education incorporates issues of social class, culture, ethnicity, religion,
sexual orientation, and age.
Environmental Education
Environmental education is a process that allows individuals to explore environmental
issues, engage in problem solving, and take action to improve the environment.
Environmental education (EE) is education about, for, and through the environment.
It is a field that emerged with postmodernism.
It is a field that emerged with postmodernism, as environmental problems began to
be recognized in the 1960s, and as postmodernism celebrated the
interconnectedness of all life as opposed to an attitude of human domination
(Galang, 2001).
The effects of environmental destruction are being increasingly felt: pollution of land,
air and water; depletion of forests and other resources; global warming.
EE is clearly an educational response to ecological crisis.
An important goal as to make everyone a good “steward” or “kin” of natural
environment in order that the needs of both the present and future generations can
be met.
This bottom line message was of course the theme of the landmark book, Our
Common Future.
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SIGNIFICANCE OF PEACE
We are reaching a critical point in history when solving the problems of humankind
has become a matter of our very survival.
Finding sustainable solutions to these problems has never been more pressing, as
population pressure, violence, and environmental degradation are on the rise.
We are alive at a unique time in human history, a time that calls for humanity’s
creativity, ingenuity, and compassion to solve our greatest problems.
There are a myriad of approaches to try to solve these problems, but ultimately, the
roots of these problems are related to human consciousness, worldview and culture.
Taking the cultural approach, our current predicaments are related to the culture of
war and violence, which is a global human phenomenon permeating all aspects of
life.
In order to solve our problems, we must transform the culture of war and violence into
a culture of peace and nonviolence, which is the goal of peace education.
According to UNESCO “war begins in the minds of men”.
If this is true, then it is through changing our minds – our consciousness and our
worldview, which are rooted in our culture that transformation needs to occur in order
to move from a culture of war to a culture of peace.
Albert Einstein said: “The problems we have cannot be solved at the same level of
thinking that created them.”
The goal of peace education is to raise our level of thinking to be able to solve these
problems.
Education is the key factor affecting the way we see the world.
While many factors affect our consciousness and worldview, such as our genetics,
our family, our religion, and our community, the one factor that is key is our formal
schooling.
In the Philippines, the Center for Peace Education in Miriam College and other groups assert
that educating for peace is both a practical alternative and an ethical imperative.
Journal Writing
Consider the following questions:
1. How did you feel about what you saw on the video clip?
2. What violent act/acts do you notice?
3. Which of those acts of violence do you find most problematic and controversial?
4. If those acts of violence are diseases, do you think they are curable or at least
preventable? (Compose 300 words in each number)
Journal Writing
1) What is Peace Education as defined by UNESCO?
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6. If you passed your work (activities or assignments, etc.) at online (Like Facebook or
Google account of your instructor):
7. Reminder: Submit on time. (Late submission automatic ½ of points depends upon the
score.)
Let’s make this new normal learning environment an effective and enjoyable one!