THE SYSTEMIC-DYNAMIC-TRANSDIMENSIONAL (SDT) APPROACH
TEACHERS FOR PEACE PROGRAM
Consulting and training in
- Non-Violence School
- Conflict Resolution,
- Inclusion
SINCE 1996, A PROGRAM FOR
VIOLENCE
PREVENTION,
DETECTION,
CONTAINMENT, AND
CHANGE
FOR COMMUNITIES AND
EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS
Designed
to:
1. Provide training
for teachers in non-violence and 2. Provide the practical
implementation of the program in educational institutions
We live in an environment characterized
by insecurity, fear, and violence. Violence,
and above all explicit violence, increases daily: Family
violence, gender-based violence, social violence, violence
in the media, professional, economic, political, legal,
educational violence. Violence as seen at home, on the
streets, at work, in social meetings, in health and
educational institutions, in business, in politics.
Violence that goes from a contempt gesture up to mistreatment,
abuse, rape, and murder.
Violence generates
both individual and collective insecurity.
A vicious cycle is created in which each one feeds the
other. The culture of insecurity, violence and fear
cannot offer another future than more of the same. There
are no options: This kind of culture cannot provide
a secure, calm and peaceful future. It cannot improve
the quality of life nor can it can assure an enjoyable
life, either for ourselves or for our children. It cannot
restore lost values.
Individual as well
as social insecurity require an urgent response by very
different social actors. Among many simultaneous indispensable
approaches, one way of working is in education. And
for that it is essential that teachers are being trained.
It is in this way that we have been working since 1996, providing information and training for administrators and teaching personnel.
General objetives:
• To aid in
the transformation from a culture of insecurity, violence,
and fear to a Culture of Peace
• To cooperate in achieving a consensus with respect
to universal principles and essential values for living
in a better way
• To develop a consciousness of the importance
of education in preventing, detecting, containing, and
modifying the circumstances of aggression and violence
in community, home, and school
• To contribute to a future with security, tranquility,
and peace.
Specific
objetives:
• To provide concrete tools
for prevention, detection, support, and modification
of aggression and violence
• Through educational institutions, to generate
a consciousness in parents and to give parents tools
for improving family interactions
• To generate a multiplier effect through the education
of trainers.
Auspices
UNESCO - OMEP (World
Organization for Pre-School Education) - IIN (Interamerican
Institute for the Child) - Argentine Pediatric Society
- National Commission for Cooperation with UNESCO -
Membership, Auspicies or Statement of Educational Interest
of the Argentine provinces of Buenos Aires, Santa Cruz,
La Pampa, Santa Fe, Catamarca, Tucumán, Mendoza, Tierra
del Fuego and Entre Rios - Statement of Municipal Interest
of Vicente Lopez, Province of Buenos Aires (Location
of The Holism Foundation for Education, Health, and
Social Action) - The program is part of the Program
Culture of Peace of UNESCO.
Outreach
• Institutions:
All institutions related to education, at their own
headquarters. State organizations, NGOs, schools at
every level: kindergardens, primary, secondary, special
schools, colleges, universities
. • People: Administrators, teachers,
teachers working with students with disabilities and
learning disorders, educators, specialists in early
intervention, etc; students; and all others who are
involved in education.
Development
The TEACHERS FOR PEACE PROGRAM is a practical program which applies action strategies in education.
It suggests simultaneous
action in four areas:
- School,
- Classroom,
- Main protagonists, and
- Context.
Pillars
1. Implementation in institutions: Introduction of the Program in the requesting community / institutions (Diagnostic Evaluation, Action Plan, Anti-Crisis Groups, Non-Violence School Laboratory).
2. Teacher training: In the requesting institution and in accordance with each community’s / institution’s needs. The possibilities are:
INFORMATIONAL
EVENTS:
1. Informational presentation, 2 hours
2. Workshop: Violence and the School, 3 hours
3. Information course with an optional
final evaluation, 8 hours
TRAINING:
Educational Specialist in Non-Violence, including:
Supervising of results - Permanent Interactive
Network - Research and publication - Training
of Trainers for a multiplier effect
Results
• Teachers return conscious
of the importance of education as clearly different
from only teaching: To educate is to stimulate development
• Parents take then this model from teachers and assume responsibility in the education of their children
• Children / students learnhealthy interactions from adults, based on positive values
• Democratic participation is created, which is respectful of others
• In an environment of safeness,
serenity and peace, the daily and global quality of
life improves, so as learning
Parents Consulting Project
The program is closely linked to
the Parents Consulting Project of Holism Foundation for
Education, Health, and Social Action, which was introduced
at the beginning of 2004, when it was introduced into
institutions in Argentina and other countries.
Its objective is the psycho-educational counseling and participation of parents through educational institutions.
Up to date, The Teachers for Peace Program was presented in Argentina, Germany, Uruguay, and Mexico.
