Peace Education in the Higher Secondary Level Curriculum of Bangladesh

Abstract

Education for peace attempts to transform the lives of students, teachers, and the whole community by directly confronting participants with the issue that was at the heart of conflict (Clarke-Habibi 2005 cited in Bar-Tal & Rosen, 2009). Peace education directly refers to the themes of conflict and tries to change societal beliefs, attitude, values and behaviors related to culture of conflict (Bar-Tal & Rosen, 2009). This paper has made a study of how peace education promotes conflict free world and ensures global harmony. This study has also concerned how textbooks can play an important role to develop students' understanding of diverse culture, tolerance against diversity. Adopting a qualitative method approach, this study has analyzed students' interviews. Ten (10) students from three (3) different colleges have participated in the interview session. The result of the findings and English For Today textbook for classes XI-XII has been analyzed and some suggestions have been made on the basis of the result.