Recently, the Canadian government has initiated a wide range of actions and gestures aimed at reconciling historical injustices including the state's relationship with Indigenous peoples and nations. Reforming K-12 education to adequately teach Canada's difficult past has been a key priority in this movement, leading to curriculum change across…

Communicative self-efficacy serves as an important link between discussing controversial issues and civic engagement because confidence in one's discourse skills is important to managing conflicting perspectives and developing solutions to community-based problems. Freely available to schools, "Word Generation" is a cross-content…

The Resolving Conflict Creatively Program (RCCP) began in New York City by Linda Lantieri who is now the national director. This program is for teachers, students, administrators, and parents who seek to make schools and society more peaceful through creative means. RCCP was developed because of the increasing statistics of violent acts that take…

The social studies elementary school curriculum should help children explore the nature and causes of conflict, and help them discover non-violent, constructive ways of resolving conflict situations. (NH)

The author examines the overuse of the structure of discipline in social studies curriculum. The utilization of a problem-solving methodology which deals with value-conflict issues is recommended as a substitute. The problem-solving process would cut across and utilize every subject area. (DE)

Explains how international terrorism can be integrated into existing social studies curriculum on the high school level. Suggests that teachers design international terrorism lessons around a conceptual framework which takes the human element into consideration as well as political and social motivation of terrorists. (DB)

Examines the recent growth of interest in conflict studies as a dimension of peace education and explores various ways of developing workable approaches to conflict studies. (DB)

This curriculum project is intended for studying nonviolent conflict resolution at the undergraduate and graduate level, but it could be adapted for high school classes. The project first presents an historical context of Israel to illuminate the present conflict in the Middle East. It then presents a series of vignettes that represent differing…

Covers the rationale behind the creation of a labor studies curriculum, an example of a successful program, teachers' advice on integrating labor studies into existing curricula, a resource list, and a brief chronology of important dates in U.S. labor history. (AM)

This paper seeks to clarify the current debate about studying peace in schools and classroom by exploring: (1) the breadth of concern encompassed by peace education; (2) the educational legitimation for studying peace and conflict in the classroom, and (3) curriculum implications of peace education. The problems of peace encompass violence and…

The project group "Preparedness for Peace" at the Malmo School of Education in Sweden studies various prerequisites for peace education in school and various possibilities of carrying out peace-related activities at different school levels. A broad goal is to increase knowledge of possible ways of helping children and young people to…

The purpose of this paper is to inquire into the impact of the new social studies (NSS) as percieved by social studies methods teachers. They agree with many of the values of the NSS and the curriculum projects (which they tend to equate), but they want the developmental role shifted from the projects to the teachers. They see the NSS as overly…

Paper presented at the Fifteenth Duke University Conference on Teaching the Social Studies.

Examines peace education at the elementary school level, stressing the need to include interpersonal and international relations when teaching peace. Suggests peace education can lead children to prosocial behavior. Sees peace as a positive of being. Urges the infusion of peace education throughout the elementary social studies curriculum. (CH)