Clarke-Habibi, S. (2020). Educating for intercultural dialogue, peacebuilding, constructive remembrance, and reconciliation: A toolkit for teachers in the Western Balkans. UNICEF Albania and Regional Youth Cooperation Office.
Although prepared specifically for teachers in the Western Balkans, this toolkit should be useful to anyone in a teaching context working with any of the major concepts. As explained in the introduction:
This Toolkit focuses on education for intercultural dialogue, peacebuilding, constructive remembrance and reconciliation. It is designed for teachers and trainers who work with adolescents (14-18 years) in formal and non-formal education settings. It may be adapted, however, for other contexts and age groups, such as for activities with older youth, for pre-service teacher training, and for teacher professional development programmes. (p. 7)
The objectives of this Toolkit are:
- To support teachers’ professional competences to engage adolescents and youth in intercultural dialogue.
- To support teachers in their use of teaching strategies and techniques, which help adolescents and youth to learn and practice open and respectful dialogue.
- To develop teachers’ professional competences and confidence to engage adolescents and youth in discussing controversial issues, particularly related to past and current causes of conflict in the region, and to manage all this safely and effectively.
- To support teachers to create ‘safe spaces’ in the classroom where adolescents and youth can explore issues that concern them freely and without fear.
- To support teachers’ professional competences to nurture young people’s understanding of the foundations of sustainable peace and to strengthen their agency as peacebuilding actors (p. 8).
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