Education for non-violence, human rights, and peaceful solutions and practices can be incorporated at all levels of the New Zealand national curriculum.
Education for peace can be aligned with the material teachers are expected to cover with students.
Peace Education in the Curriculum
Where does peace education fit in the NZ Curriculum? How can you include peace education in your teaching and assessments?
Find out how these peace education topics can be integrated into the different learning areas to gain knowledge, skills, and experiences
- Human Rights and Social Justice
- Disarmament and Security
- Multicultural Issues and Diversity
- Environmental and Ecological Issues
- Global and International Issues
- Development and Inequality
- Conflict Resolution, Transformation and Prevention
- Gender Equality
- Futures Perspectives
- Democratic Citizenship
- Nonviolence and Peacefulness
Links of peace education topics to the NZ Curriculum Learning Areas
Note. This is a working document for use by teachers and curriculum leaders. Please use it as a starting point to explore links of peace education topic areas to your teaching and assessment.
We welcome feedback about the relevance of peace education topics to learning areas and the NZ Curriculum:
