As much of my work focuses on community colleges and their efforts at advancing peace, I like to share what I consider to be powerful ways they are doing that work. At Del Mar College in Corpus Christi, TX, the professional truck training program has adopted the curriculum of Truckers Against Trafficking (TAT). Each studentContinueContinue reading “A Unique and Powerful Way Community Colleges Can Advance Human Rights: Truckers Ending Trafficking”
Category Archives: Peacebuilding
Featured Peacebuilding Group: Global Campaign for Peace Education
Education should be everyone’s concern. For many of us, we are directly involved in promoting conflict resolution, social justice, peacebuilding, and global education. We work with local communities to reduce violence and provide pathways of youth, and in global contexts to show young people what they can do to tackle the most serious problems facingContinueContinue reading “Featured Peacebuilding Group: Global Campaign for Peace Education”
Project Based Learning (PBL) as a Means to Getting Young People to Become Agents of Peaceable Change
Educators, particularly those working with secondary youth, are constantly exploring the best ways for student engagement that would offer them specific life and professional skills as well as knowledge of the world around them. Many educators are now starting to focus on project based learning (PBL) as a means to advancing student learning. In thisContinueContinue reading “Project Based Learning (PBL) as a Means to Getting Young People to Become Agents of Peaceable Change”
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