Title: Peace Education in Language Teaching
Speaker: Charles Kowalski
This workshop explored ways of teaching peace in EFL. It began with an overview of the concept of peace, and an introduction of the model of peace as a series of concentric circles - inner peace, peace in relationships, peace in society, peace in the world. Participants joined in sample activities at each of these levels, and took home a variety of materials and resources.
Kowalski has taught content-based peace studies classes at Tokai University and Tokyo Keizai University, and conducted peace education workshops for language educators throughout Japan and other countries in Asia. He also plays a mean Irish whistle.