Implementation Of Peace Education In The New B.Ed Curriculum Course Of Andhra Pradesh

Abstract

Peace remains hidden in the education literature, rather than practised. . “What I teach is what I know and what I educate is what I am.” The real purpose of teacher education is to train youth to discharge the duties of citizenship properly. All the objectives in teacher education acknowledge the goal of promoting a culture of peace as the purpose shaping the enterprise of education if practised with vigour and vision and make teaching and learning a joyful and meaningful experience. This paper reckons with the objectives of peace educator, peace education pedagogy in reality is the alarming increase of Peace education, which is an integrative perspective and then examines, the major frontiers and approaches for teacher education in peace  to  empower  a teacher in his/her attempt to foster peaceful attitudes, values and skills in children to provide a basic theoretical foundation and a variety of teaching and learning activities, that can find clues and insights as to how peace concepts, values, and approach could be included into curriculum, explores ways of integrating peace values into the school curriculum and various practices that make school a place of peace. It also highlights a large number of teaching and learning methods of peace education, designing ways of integrating peace into lessons by the teachers trained in teacher education and evaluating peace learning. . The pivotal role of this paper is that teachers play effective role in teaching and learning envisaged in education for peace and the need to turn the attention towards examining the major issues and concerns for an effective implementation of teacher education for peace needs to be engaged and maximised when the teaching atmosphere is imbibed with the values and attitudes of peace.