Educere Course Overview and Description

Peacemaking
Course Id: 663

zzzThe VHS Collaborative (SB)

Course Overview
Institution	zzzThe VHS Collaborative (SB)
Subject	Social Studies Electives
Education Level	High School
Institution Website	click here

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Course Description
Peacemaking is about power. It is about realizing and utilizing your personal power, by recognizing that there are alternatives to violence and to a "win-lose" philosophy of life. Peacemaking is an active process, not a passive exercise.

Peacemaking is an interdisciplinary course exploring Peace and Peacemaking in four interrelated ways - the personal, interpersonal, communal and global. Through exploration, evaluation, reflection and discussion we will better understand our own roles and responsibilities as peacemakers. Topics covered will include: service for the sake of peace, forgiveness, understanding, contemplation, philosophies of non-violence, and peacemakers past and present among the Nobel Peace Prize Laureates. Readings include works by Thich Nhat Hanh, Martin Luther King, The 14th Dalai Lama, Mohandas Gandhi, Simon Wiesenthal and others. Projects will include a Peace Offering and creation of a multimedia project: assembling Pieces of Peace.

Discussion will be open and spirited. Join the process. I strongly believe that learning is a collaborative process.

Delivery Method

Internet

Real-Time Web-Based Teacher Access

Prerequisites
Familiarity with keyboarding and the internet. An inquiring spirit.

Course Materials
Virtual High School will have course materials, if any, shipped directly to students. While there is no additional cost for course materials, there is an additional charge for shipping. Students are required to return such course materials to course instructor upon completion of the course.

Courses and course detail are subject to change without notice.