At the PJSA conference, our Saturday morning speaker was David Swanson from World Beyond War. He made a passionate and logical argument against war. His group works to eliminate war as a option in global affairs. I’m featuring World Beyond War as this week’s Featured Peacebuilding Group. I’ve include slides from David’s talk that layContinueContinue reading “Featured Peacebuilding Group: World Beyond War”
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U.S. Diplomacy Center Launches Diplomacy Simulations Program
If you are an educator who focuses on global topics and uses experiential approaches in teaching and learning, you should consider using some of the simulations recently developed and made available by the U.S. Diplomacy Center (part of the U.S. Department of State). The simulation topics include: International Migration Crisis: Human Rights and Border SecurityContinueContinue reading “U.S. Diplomacy Center Launches Diplomacy Simulations Program”
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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