Analyzing the Integration of Peace Education in Primary School Curricula

Abstract

This review paper is about analyzing the current status of Peace education in the Pakistani curricula of the social study at grade 5^th formulated by Single National Curriculum in 2020. For this purpose, the authors applied content and thematic approach to examine the curriculum of grade 4 and 5 social studies using the content frames of Peace Education model by Castro and Galace (Castro and Galace, 2010), and of the model of the peace education by Makkala and Lavendra (Makkola and Lavendra, 2015). The study finds out that peace education models of UNO are part and parcel of the SNC, however no practical steps and skills are lacking to make these parameters activated in students’ minds. It was suggested to include activities of peace education, in the exercises to give better understanding of peace and non-violence, so that global and global peace societies be discovered through learning experiences.