Document Type
Article
Publication Date
10-23-2024
Abstract
Introduction: This pilot case study paper demonstrates how school programming can be aligned and enhanced to better create a climate of peace on an elementary school campus by utilizing an integral peace leadership lens. Working collectively as a Peace Leadership Advisory Group, the elementary school leadership team, and the university research team helped to align existing programming and explore and implement new programming to create a comprehensive plan for bringing peace ideas together at the elementary school level.
Methods: This pilot was a single case study that utilized Participatory Action Research. Data were collected through observation, survey, and interviews with school leadership and analyzed using thematic analysis, descriptive statistics, and grounded theory methods, respectively.
Results: The pilot study revealed that the efforts to build peace on campus were successful overall, with students and staff having a positive experience with peace programming throughout the academic year.
Discussion: The findings indicate that aligning existing programming as a way to frame a culture of peace and then supplementing that programming with additional activities serves as a way to unite a campus around the idea of peace.
Recommended Citation
McIntyre Miller W, Abdou AS, Clancy CS and Stephens K (2024) The peace project: creating elementary school peace spaces and places. Front. Educ. 9:1406917. https://doi.org/10.3389/feduc.2024.1406917
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Comments
This article was originally published in Frontiers in Education, volume 9, in 2024. https://doi.org/10.3389/feduc.2024.1406917