The Importance of Art-Based Curriculum in Peace Education

Dados Bibliográficos

ID12968641
AutoresMahin Barkhordari (University of Isfahan), Hasanali Bakhtyar Nasrabadi (University of Isfahan), Mohammad Hossein Heidari (0000-0002-1391-2258, University of Isfahan, autor correspondente), Mohammad Reza Neyestani (University of Isfahan)
Ano2016
Volume8
Fascículo4
Páginas220-220
Data de publicação2016-11-24
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoReview of European Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1918-7173 • E-ISSN: 1918-7181
EditoraCanadian Center of Science and Education (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.5539/res.v8n4p220
OpenAlexW2554297199
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas1
Referências citadas4

The present study aimed to draw attentions toward the importance of art-based curriculum in peace education. Arts education can nurture humanitarian and peaceable children. However, arts education and its effect on developing ethical skills, compassion, sympathy and peace have been neglected in many societies. In this research, by analytical-descriptive method, the interaction between arts education and peace education has been explained. The main finding of this research is that Arts education through various methods including visual arts, performing arts, cinema, and music provides different methods for revolutionizing the mind. Therefore, the role of content mediation of art for understandability of the truth about peace could not be neglected. Art as content becomes the mediator for understanding and nurturing peace

Compassion · Curriculum · Mediation · Nature versus nurture · Peace Education · Pedagogy · Political science · Social science · Sociology · Sympathy · The arts · Visual arts education · Ethics and Legal Issues in Pediatric Healthcare · Law · Peace and Human Rights Education · Psychology · Social Psychology · Values and Moral Education