The importance of power sharing and child voice: Trust building for sustainable peace education

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Abstract

This chapter explores how critical pedagogy and childhood studies have questioned the effectiveness of educators’ expertise in promoting children’s trusting commitment and how these ideas have inspired the concept of facilitation, based on promoting learners’ self-expression, taking their views into account, consulting them, involving them in decision-making processes, and sharing power and responsibility for decision-making with them. Insights on the issue are offered, with the discussion of examples that illustrate the use of facilitation in the context of international summer camps promoted by the School of Peace of Monte Sole (Italy), aimed to promote dialogue, positive conflict management and peaceful relationships among groups of adolescents.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication Book School Children as Agents of Change
Subtitle of host publicationRaising up Critical Thinking and Judgement in the Early Years
EditorsAbele Longo, Emanuela Guarcello
Place of PublicationLondon
PublisherRoutledge
Chapter12
Pages126-137
Number of pages12
ISBN (Electronic) 978-1-003-37428-2
ISBN (Print)978-1-032-44721-6, 978-1-032-44875-6
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Sept 2023

Bibliographical note

This is an Accepted Manuscript of a book chapter published by Routledge in School Children as Agents of Change: Raising up Critical Thinking and Judgement in the Early Years on 1 Sep 2023, available online https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/10.4324/9781003374282

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