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Publication Date: 2018
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War, Peace, and Peace Education: Experiences and Perspectives of Pre-Service Teachers
Gurdogan-Bayir, Omur; Bozkurt, Mahmut
International Journal of Progressive Education, v14 n1 p148-164 2018
The purpose of this study was to reveal the perceptions of preservice teachers with war experience regarding war, peace and peace education. In the study, the phenomenological design was applied. The participants of the study were individuals who experienced wars or conflicts for several reasons in their countries and who received teacher training in Turkey. In this respect, the causes of war were reported to include economic and political benefits and religious and ethnical discrimination. In addition, the participants mentioned the social, psychological and economic reflections of war. Also, peace was associated with the participants' experiences and explained with such concepts as living together, freedom, confidence and happiness. In relation to peace education, the main focus was on respect to differences, and on prevention of discrimination. The preservice teachers also emphasized giving importance to children's psychology in peace education, women's rights as well as to avoidance of discrimination.
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Student Teacher Attitudes, War, Peace, Conflict, Migration, Phenomenology, Foreign Countries, Etiology, Religious Discrimination, Racial Discrimination, Economic Factors, Politics, Freedom, Self Esteem, Psychological Patterns, Cultural Pluralism, Prevention, Civil Rights, Females, Qualitative Research
International Association of Educators. Egitim Fakultesi Dekanligi, Canakkale Onsekiz Mart University, Canakkale 17100, Turkey. e-mail: secretary@inased.org; Web site: http://www.inased.org/ijpe.htm
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Education Level: Higher Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Turkey
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