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Decolonising Peace Education in Africa

Decolonising Education for Peace in Africa

Methodologies

The Applied Arts component of the Integrative SEL (Social Emotional Learning) model focuses on applied arts practitioner-training which encourages participants in responsible citizenship by fostering opportunities for them to serve as ambassadors to their communities through the development and implementation of regular creative projects. The refugee-driven creative projects, which use the Arts to focus on finding shared narratives as well as exploring and celebrating narratives of difference, are peace-building in nature. They allow learners to build the skills they need and apply them within their communities.

Two feet pointing towards a blackboard which has a chalk diagram and notes on it. The blackboard is on the stony ground.

 

The Arts projects connect people constructively by giving them a shared goal in the creative processes, empower communities to create positive and peaceful linkages and connections between diverse individuals and across languages and cultures. The Arts honour everyone’s uniqueness and level the group as they gather around a common goal of creation.

As they learn to listen, communicate clearly and respectfully, compromise, and resolve conflicts within the creative process, they develop the transferrable skills needed for creating outside peaceful communities that are equipped to resolve conflicts.

Applied arts practitioners will complete a course composed of 3 modules:

  1. Facilitation Theory
  2. Evaluation
  3. Reflection: