Search Select Language Issue #73 May / June 2010 Powered by Translate News & Highlights Peace Education in the LEARNING FROM OUR STUDENTS' CREATIVE Field NONVIOLENT ACTIONS: LESSONS ON HUMAN RIGHTS, PEACE and DEMOCRACY Action Alerts Events & Conferences Anita YudkinSuliveres and Anaida PascualMorán UNESCO Chair for Peace Education, University of Puerto Trainings & Workshops Rico Publications & Research Cátedra UNESCO de Educación para la Paz, Universidad de Jobs & Funding Puerto Rico email:
[email protected] Opportunities web: http://unescopaz.uprrp.edu/ Quick Links As peace educators we seek GCPE Website to develop understanding of Subscribe the interconnections between Archives peace, democracy, human Contribute to the rights, and nonviolent action. Newsletter This is the main quest we pursue in every educational Make a taxdeductible endeavor we engage in. We contribution to the Global also assume the Campaign (coming soon) emancipatory Freirean principle of the interrelationships between reflection, action, and transformation as inherent to our educational practice. In our peace education courses, we have learned from our students’ action proposals and creative projects about commitment, critical inquiry, and the praxis for peace and justice in an unjust and violent world. Over the past six weeks, however, thousands of students in strike from the University of Puerto Rico, have taught us intensively many lessons on peace, democracy, human rights and nonviolence that have deeply moved our thoughts and hearts. It is these lessons we wish to reflect upon and share so that they enrich our pedagogical action for peace. Beforehand, it is essential to acknowledge that the student movement at the University of Puerto Rico has a trajectory of over sixty years of nonviolent militant actions against war and for demilitarization, in defense of affordable public higher education, University reform and autonomy.