Teaching Peace Education at Higher Education Level: Some Learner Centric Approaches

The history of mankind has witnessed the thousands of wars which have taken place in all periods destroying the peace of human minds and threatening the survival of mankind. Wars are born from the greed of power of some people or nations destroying the world peace. The best example of the present time is the crisis between Ukraine and Russia creating fear of another world war. The panacea of all these problems is imparting peace education and train young minds to realize the importance of peace. Since the contents of peace education are integrated with the different subjects like language and literature, social sciences, mathematics and sciences, etc., the pedagogy of peace education becomes very broad that includes various methods and approaches. Therefore, there is no single method to teach peace education, rather it can be taught through combining various methods in which the learners will not be simply passive listeners rather active participants. An attempt has been made in this paper to estimate some of the learner centric methods like Enquiry Method, Participatory Education, Experiential Learning, Reflective Learning, Collaborative and Cooperative Learning and Jurisprudential Teaching to teach peace education especially at higher education level.