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Posted: Aug. 07 2006,04:51 by JoLofgren from INTERNATIONAL - Jo Lofgren
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Questionnaire
1.
a) I have been thinking about informal education with young people and
solidarity. Learning about and the support of solidarity movements is
an alternative to learning about and supporting aid and development.
Exploring and identifying with struggles elsewhere in the world brings
the global to the local through the personal and there is great
potential for developing international understanding and understanding
of dominant, global political, social and economic forces.
All 8 core areas of CoP could be covered.
c)
The next issue of the Development Education journal is about peace and
conflict. I would like the DEA to organize a youth conference on
education for peace. We would take the line that good development
education practice should build an understanding of positive peace. It
presents a history of the world that we are all part of and that
conflicts should be seen in their full context and not as isolated
historical events.
2. a) At this time the government is
nurturing a culture of violence and not peace, both in domestic and
foreign policy. I don’t need to say anything about the ‘war on terror’
except that the fighting fire with fire policy also impacts on young
people, through reactionary and disciplinary youth policy based on a
deficit model, and influences them in that their role model of
leadership is a bellicose one.
I find it hard to imagine what the government could do to promote a culture of peace.
Optional questions
6.
Education. I think one of the key roles of education in helping support
a CoP is to first develop an understanding and acceptance of conflict,
from internal conflicts from the earliest age to intractable global
conflicts of, for example, religious absolutism.
Contact information:
Development Education Association (DEA)
1st Floor, River House
143-145 Farringdon Road
London, EC1R 3AB
Tel & fax: +44 20 7812 1282; +44 20 7812 1272
Contact person: James Edleston, Youth Officer
E-mail: james.edleston@dea.org.uk
www.dea.org.uk/youth
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