Peace education

An International Baccalaureate perspective

Bibliographic Data

ID12876165
AuthorsLodewijk Van Oord (College of the Atlantic, corresponding author)
Year2008
Volume5
Issue1
Pages49-62
Publication date2008-02-12
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Peace Education (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1740-0201 • E-ISSN: 1740-021X
PublisherTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/17400200701859379
OpenAlexW2060905169
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited12

The International Baccalaureate (IB) Diploma programme, an internationally recognised pre‐university curriculum, is currently offered by approximately 1500 schools in 120 countries. This article will analyse various dimensions of peace education in the IB Diploma programme, with particular reference to its peace and conflict studies course. This course has been a success in qualitative terms but has not managed to draw in large numbers of students. Ian Harris’ typology of peace education will be used to demonstrate how elements of peace education have found their way into the Diploma programme in other ways as well. It is argued that the IB Diploma programme’s commitment to peace education is mostly achieved through international education, but that the four other types of peace education (human rights education, development education, environmental education and conflict resolution education) are also available. By way of conclusion this article suggests how the peace education embedded in the Diploma programme can be made more explicit and more widely available for a larger number of IB Diploma students

Conflict resolution · Curriculum · Higher education · Human rights · Human Rights Education · International education · Peace Education · Pedagogy · Perspective (graphical · Political science · Social science · Sociology · Teacher education · Typology · Educator Training and Historical Pedagogy · Global Education and Multiculturalism · Law · Peace and Human Rights Education

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