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Peace Education in the Early Years<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Presentations at 2012 TRCC Course – Peace in Education: an early years’ gift to a more peaceful future<\/h2>\n

Course hosted by the Teachers Refresher Course Committee (TRCC<\/a>),\u00a0St Hilda’s Collegiate School, Dunedin.\u00a010-13 April 2012<\/p>\n

Initial planning committee: Colleen Lockie, Ki Mansell, Rosalie Ardagh, Kim Tenebaum, Dr Ali Wegner, Gae Thawley, Justine Mason, Jo Togiaso
\nKindly supported by: Dr Elspeth Macdonald, Kay Lloyd-Jones, Fiona Ellis, Kirstyn Trainor, Claire MacDonald, Lyn Foote<\/p>\n

Resources from presentations at the course are available in PDF and powerpoint format.<\/p>\n

Visit http:\/\/www.trcc.org.nz\/<\/a> – Click on to Post Course Resources, then Peace in Education, then RESOURCES in the blue box.
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Tell us what resources you find useful\u00a0 Email: education4peace<\/a><\/p>\n

Te Wh\u00e0<\/strong>riki <\/strong><\/h2>\n

At a colloquium to initiate conversations around peace education in New Zealand held at Otago University in Dunedin on 29-30 October, 2010, participants suggested that\u00a0Te Wh\u00e0riki would provide an excellent model for peace for peace education throughout the New Zealand curriculum.<\/p>\n

Some of the learning outcomes listed in Te Whariki require children to have access to knowledge, skills, and attitudes pertaining to “a range of strategies for solving conflicts in peaceful ways, and a perception that peaceful ways are best” and that children attain “an increasing ability to take another’s point of view and to empathise with others” (Ministry of Education, 1996, p. 70).<\/p>\n

Ministry of Education (MOE) (1996) Early Childhood Curriculum \u2013 Te Wh\u00e0riki. Wellington; Learning Media.
\nhttp:\/\/www.educate.ece.govt.nz\/learning\/curriculumAndLearning\/TeWhariki.aspx
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\n\u201cThis is the first bicultural curriculum statement developed in New Zealand. It contains curriculum specifically for M\u00e0ori immersion services in early childhood education and establishes, throughout the document as a whole, the bicultural nature of curriculum for all early childhood services.” (p7)<\/p>\n

“This curriculum emphasises the critical role of socially and culturally mediated learning and of reciprocal and responsive relationships for children with people, places, and things. Children learn through collaboration with adults and peers, through guided participation and observation of others, as well as through individual exploration and reflection.<\/p>\n

This is a curriculum for early childhood care and education in New Zealand. In early childhood education settings, all children should be given the opportunity to develop knowledge and an understanding of the cultural heritages of both partners to Te Tiriti o Waitangi.\u201d (p.9)<\/p>\n

Human rights and social justice<\/h2>\n

Early childhood activity suggestions with links to Te Wh\u0101riki.<\/p>\n