Authors:

Krunal Panchal

Abstract:

The concept of peace has changed throughout recorded history as different groups and individuals have struggled to realize a harmonious state of existence. In the contemporary world understanding of peace vary from country to country and within different cultural contexts. Peace education emphasizes empowerment and nonviolence and involves building a democratic community, teaching cooperation, developing moral sensitivity, promoting self-esteem, and stimulating critical thinking. This paper is to know zeal of educator to achieve all of the above steps with great efficiency and effectiveness while teaching peace. This paper reveals the enthusiasm for peace education of the educator. EQ (Emotional Quotient) of the teacher would also be analyzed in this paper. Finally, this paper will give some glimpse of capability of teachers to achieve knowledge, skill and attitudinal aims. A questionnaire was developed to collect the required data. It was divided in two parts, demographics of respondents and peace education, for ease of understanding. Except demographics all other information were collected with the use of 7 point Likert Scale and the 4^th and the last question was developed with 7 point Semantic Differential Scale.Sample Size was 100 Educators and Trainers from the various Schools and Training institutes of Ankleshwar and Bharuch. Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS 17) and Microsoft Excel 2010 were used as Data Analysis Tools. Normality check, Measures of variability and measures of association, t statistics etc. were used as test statistics. Within certain limitations concluding paragraph of this paper says Educators in Ankleshwar and Bharuch are not passionate to achieve Knowledge, Skill and Attitudinal aims of Peace Education.

Keywords:

Concept of Peace, Peace Education, Emotional Quotient, Zeal of Educators, Agreement of Respondents, Peace Museums, Pedagogical Impact

Vol & Issue:

VOL.13, ISSUE No.4, December 2021