University as a Place for Personal Renaissance: Future-teachers’ University Experiences as Agents for Learning and Teaching Peace

Authors : Ozlem ERDEN-BASARAN, Gulistan GURSEL-BİLGİN

Pages : 252-263

Doi:10.14686/buefad.1074688

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Publication Date : 2023-04-15

Article Type : Research Paper

Abstract :This phenomenological study aims to understand how future-teachers’ university setting has become a personal awakening place to reflect on their past schooling experiences and build plans as peace agents. In other words, this study argues that university experience, if meaningfully constructed to promote peace, equips future-teachers with the necessary skills to teach peace, and it could help future teachers about critically reflecting their past learnings upon the negative peace and violence. It transforms these learnings into positive peace in the end. Drawing from Freire’s insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(1970); critical consciousness and Giroux’s insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(1981,1988, 2010); conceptualization of teachers as transformative intellectuals, the findings suggest that universities by building inclusive, peaceful, democratic, and diverse communities, can help their students to gain the awareness of systematic oppression and structural violence insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(re);produced by patriarchal, political and social discourses, and it develops motivation to incorporate peace insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(education); in their professional practices.
Keywords : Barış eğitimi, dönüştürücü aydın, eleştirel teori, eleştirel bilinç, okul yaşantısı