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Title: Technical and vocational education and training in peace education: Solomon Islands
Contributor(s): Maebuta, Jack  (author)
Publication Date: 2011
DOI: 10.1080/17400201.2011.589253
Handle Link: https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/8288
Abstract: Technical and vocational education and training programs as a form of peace education are examined in this paper. It explores the notion of educating for a culture of peace through refocusing technical and vocational education and training programs on sustainable community development in the Solomon Islands. It further highlights the policy and practice mechanisms that contribute to advancing technical and vocational education and training as a peace education initiative. As a model of the applicability of the program as a form of peace education, the discussion describes a technical and vocational education and training centre in the Solomon Islands that has engaged in post-conflict livelihood projects – bringing about healing and restoration and creating the culture of peace. This is a practical and comprehensive model to peace education that extends beyond the centre and embraces the culture of peace in the community as a whole. The implications point to technical and vocational education and training as a means to achieve co-existence. Technical and vocational education and training as a form of peace education is capable of training people for a productive livelihood, creating a sense of national identity and unity, rehabilitating former militants and moving training programs outside the walls of the institutions. As a result, the pedagogy of technical and vocational education and training as a form of peace education is largely based on learning by doing which incorporates a number of peace activities.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Source of Publication: Journal of Peace Education, 8(2), p. 157-176
Publisher: Routledge
Place of Publication: United Kingdom
ISSN: 1740-021X
1740-0201
Fields of Research (FoR) 2008: 130213 Vocational Education and Training Curriculum and Pedagogy
139999 Education not elsewhere classified
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2008: 930399 Curriculum not elsewhere classified
939999 Education and Training not elsewhere classified
Peer Reviewed: Yes
HERDC Category Description: C1 Refereed Article in a Scholarly Journal
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