Peace Education Rooted in the Identity and Mission of Catholic Education

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Peace Education Rooted in the Identity and
Mission of Catholic Education

• Professor Dr Angelina Gutiérrez
• St. Scholasticas College - Manila
• CEAP National Convention "Building a Culture of
  Peace
• Shaping the Vision, Living the Dream
• Session Integrating Peace Education in the
  Curriculum
• Davao City, Sept. 22, 2011

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Context of the Paper

• Related studies and advocacy on peace education
• UN International Decade for a Culture of Peace
  (2000-2010)
• Executive Order 570 - Institutionalization of
  Peace Education in Basic Teacher Education

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• Local literature
• a) Peace Education A Pathway to a Culture of
  Peace (Castro Galace, 2010) for formal
  non-formal settings
• b) Panagtagbo sa Kalinaw (1998), manual on
  education for conflict resolution of
  tri-communities in Mindanao
• c) Islamic Model for Peace Education (2010)

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• Advocacy
• a) Silsilah Dialogue Movement (1984), interfaith
  education

• b) Peace Education as a core course in college

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Purpose of the Study

• Catholic paradigm for peace education
• Research Problems
• 1) Meanings/semantics of peace education?
• 2) How to teach peace education in relation to
  the identity and mission of Catholic education?
• 3) The connection of peace education to our
  vocation to the educational apostolate?
• 4) Pedagogic applications of peace education in
  the Catholic institute curriculum?

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Methods of Inquiry

• Academic paper
• Qualitative research design
• studies on peace education
• Vatican documents
• Auto-ethnography
• educator
• researcher

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Conceptual framework of the research
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RQ1Semantics of Peace Studies

• Elise Boulding (1920 2010), matriarch of peace
  studies movement

• Johann Galtung (1930 present), father of peace
  conflict studies

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• Education for peace subjects
• Empowers learners to end violence/injustice
  promote a culture of peace
• Four key principles of peace education
  (Teachers without Borders, 2011)
• equitable dialogue
• study with application towards societal
  transformation
• holistic analysis of issues
• promotion of values

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RQ2 How to teach peace education in relation to
the identity mission of Catholic education?

• the Catholic academe as born in the heart of
  the church
• (Ex corde
• ecclesiae, JPII, 1990)

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Four essential characteristics of the Catholic
academe (JPII, 1990)

1. moral, spiritual, religious dimension in
   research, science technology in the totality of
   the human person
2. continuing reflection in the light of Catholic
   faith
3. fidelity to the Church message
4. commitment to service towards the transcendent
   goal

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• Locus of peace education in the mission and
  identity of Catholic education
• Christ is our Peace

A Catholic institute must have the courage to
speak uncomfortable truths which do not please
public opinion, but which are necessary to
safeguard the authentic good of society. (JPII,
1990, Ex corde ecclesiae, n.32)
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• Church Social Teachings (CST) as content for
  peace education
• Evangelization integral human development
  through works of justice and peace

The Gospel, interpreted in the social teachings
of the Church is an urgent call to promote the
development of those peoples who are striving to
escape hunger, misery, endemic diseases and
ignorance and of those looking for a wider share
in the benefits of civilization. (Pope Paul VI,
1967, Populorum Progressio)
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RQ3 What is the connection of peace education to
our calling or vocation to the educational
apostolate?

• intellectual charity - to lead students to
  truth as an act of love

When teachers and administrators deviate from
the vision of its institutional Catholic identity
and mission, it will lead to moral, intellectual
and spiritual confusion. (Pope Benedict XVI)
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RQ4 What are some pedagogic applications of
peace education in the Catholic institutes
curriculum?

• Online resources Teachers Without Borders Peace
  Education Program (TWBPEP), Peace Education
  Foundation (PEF), Global Campaign for Peace
  Education (GCPE)
• Vatican documents on the identity and mission of
  Catholic education

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Church Social Teaching (CST)sources
Catholic Social Teaching A Key to Catholic
Identity (Office for Social Justice Archdiocese
of Saint Paul, Minneapolis, USA) http//www.osjspm
.org
Caritas in veritate (Pope Benedict XVI, 2009)
Compendium of the Social Doctrine of the Church
(Pontifical Council for Justice Peace , 2004)
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• Academic research sources

• International Handbook on Catholic Education
  (Springer Pub. Netherlands 2007)

• International Studies on Catholic Education
  journal (Routledge, Taylor Francis, UK)

• Journal of Peace Education (Routledge, Taylor
  Francis, UK)

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• International Peace Research Association (IPRA)
  its Peace Education Council (PEC) biennial
  conferences (Canada, Belgium, Australia)

• peace education through Benedictine peace values
  in the Music Appreciation Theology college
  classrooms
• inter-religious peace education
• peace education integral human development
  through the Church Social Teaching (CST) on
  preferential option for the poor

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• School/college settings peace garden, peace
  center, peace camp, pax awardee, peace forums,
  students thesis project

• Linkage with peace education networks
  foundations such as Catholic Peacebuilding
  Network (CPN) Peace Education Network in the
  Phils. (PenPhil)

• Institutional support for faculty development on
  peace education Catholic education identity
  through seminar-workshops

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• Peace education the Churchs contribution to
  the public forum regarding morality ethics

• Form students conscience to discover the truth
  that leads to the good

• education that is informative performative
  or life-changing
• (Pope Benedict XVI, 2008, Spe Salvi)

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Summary Conclusions

• Foundation and pedagogy for peace education
  rooted in the mission identity of Catholic
  education
• Knowledge-skills-application (k-s-a) when
  integrating peace education in the curriculum
• We are all peace educators

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Recommendations for further studies

• extent of Catholicity in the institute
• academic vis a vis spiritual formation
• charism of religious congregation
• Catholic intellectual tradition

in relation to peace education
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• God has created me to do him some definite
  service. He has committed some work to me which
  he has not committed to another

(Blessed Cardinal John Henry Newman, Meditations
on Christian Doctrine, 1852)
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Peace Education Rooted in the Identity and
Mission of Catholic Education

• Professor Dr Angelina Gutiérrez
• St. Scholasticas College - Manila
• CEAP National Convention "Building a Culture of
  Peace
• Shaping the Vision, Living the Dream
• Session Integrating Peace Education in the
  Curriculum
• Davao City, Sept. 22, 2011