80 Years After the War: How to Conduct Peace Education

This year marks the 80th anniversary of the end of the war on August 15, 1945. With fewer people having experienced war, the difficulty of passing on history is often discussed. In the field of education, a major challenge is how to raise children who have the ability to build peace.

In this article, we will introduce some new examples of peace education in practice.

 

Inquiry learning×Case studies of peace education

・Nagasaki City Case Study: Learn about Nagasaki in advance and discuss "What can we do for peace?"

Nagasaki Prefecture is hosting the Nagasaki SDG Peace Workshop. Students learn about the history of Nagasaki online as a preparatory lesson,The participants will tour the remains of the atomic bombing and the Atomic Bomb Museum with a peace guide. Afterwards, they will receive a lecture on peace promotion efforts and the challenges they face, and then they will give presentations and exchange opinions in groups about "what they can do to realize peace."

 

[Reference] Nagasaki City Official Website: Travel Nagasaki

https://www.at-nagasaki.jp/education/article/sdgs

[Reference] Japan School Trip Association　Nagasaki City's Evolved "Nagasaki SDGs Peace Workshop" and Experiential Educational Travel Program

https://jstb.or.jp/pages/173/detail=1/b_id=1487/r_id=9/

 

・"The Last 10 Feet" Project: Interviewing foreigners who visited Hiroshima about war and peaceI do

Held at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial MuseumReexamining the meaning of war and peace from an educational perspectiveIn the "Last 10 Feet" project, foreigners who visited the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum were interviewed. Through the experience of becoming exhibit creators and narrators, they actively gained peace education.

 

[Reference] Japan Education Newspaper: From passive to proactive: Changing "peace education"

https://www.kyoiku-press.com/post-296770/

 

Learn about peace from people of the same age around the world. Talk about peace together.

In addition to inquiry-based peace education, there are also initiatives to learn about peace and war from young people of the same age around the world. By learning with young people of the same age, it is expected that students will begin to think about peace as something that concerns them personally.

 

Shoin Junior and Senior High School conducted a peace education program in which students connected online with students from Syria, where a civil war will continue until 2024, to discuss war and peace.

In this program, students learned about the real situation in Syria, focusing on both the past and present. They visited local kindergartens and universities, and spoke with young people their age who lived in the country and experienced the war about Syria's current situation, history, culture, and more.

The participants also deepened their understanding of Syria's history and current situation through a panel discussion on the current situation and challenges in Syria led by Mr. Nakano, the representative of the NPO "Piece of Syria," which provides educational support to Syrian children and engages in peace-raising activities in Japan, and by watching a video titled "Syria Then and Now."

 

 

Now, as we mark 80 years since the end of the war, With The World will explore and propose new ways of teaching peace that will leave a lasting impression on students and foster skills that will carry them into the future.

 

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