How do educators build a culture of peace?

Please join us for a special Distinguished Speaker Series as we welcome Professor Hilary Cremin, Head of the Faculty of Education at Cambridge University, to give a talk on peace education.

The talk marks the launch of the new OpenLearn short course Principles and Practice of Peace Education , a collaboration between The Open University and Quakers in Britain. This new, free, short course is available to all and we hope will become a valuable resource for educators and schools.

About the talk:

How do educators build a culture of peace?

Professor Hilary Cremin, Head of the Faculty of Education at Cambridge University, researches peacebuilding, conflict transformation and violence in education settings, bringing together experiences and insights from the United Kingdom and around the world.
Professor Cremin’s contribution complements the new Open Learn course, Principles and Practice of Peace Education, which draws on her work. The talk will offer insights on how peace educators seek a relational approach at every level from the intrapersonal to the global and ecological.

Drawing on Positive Peace in Schools, the book she co-authored with Terence Bevington, Professor Cremin will consider the conflict and violence, both overt and indirect, which exist in the education system. She will unpack the framework of peacekeeping, peacemaking and peacebuilding, through which educators might evaluate and enhance how they pursue peace in their context. Her work draws on many years of developing peace education in schools though initiatives such as circle pedagogy, peer mediation and restorative language, and she is happy to discuss these further with participants. More information about these will be covered in the Open Learn course.

Towards the end of the talk, we will be joined by Dr Lucy Henning, co-author of the new short course, who will give a brief introduction to the course on OpenLearn.
The talk will be held online via MS Teams. A recording will also be made available afterwards. Please register on Eventbrite and the link will be sent to you closer to the time.

As part of the launch activities for this new course, there will also be a free workshop for educators and practitioners interested in Peace Education hosted by Quakers in Britain one week later. 

You can book your free ticket here.