Building Peace in Early Childhood
Teaching strategies to work with children in the classroom
The initial level shows tensions and opportunities which needs to be observed, because the educational environment is not only a physical space but as well a place where the interaction between children happen.
Here they learn about experiences, values, respect norms, and to solve conflicts.
“It is in the first six years of life that all the possibilities in humanization are developed. The childhood is then a magical place of unfolding of potentialities”.
As every project is born of an institutional diagnosis, in this case: How they were solving daily conflicts of socialization in children taking into account that they were in the process of learning and development. It was also taken into account how teachers solved these situations, what matrices they brought and what achievements, consequences or impacts on children’s behavior were observed.
If we think that the initial level covers the period from birth to 6/8 years and taking into account all the learning that happens there we see the importance of making the emotion visible, recognize them and that the learning of conflict resolution is crucial for the development of proactive individuals for society that believes that peace is possible.
It is the ideal space to teach children various strategies and how to make use of their relationships in conflict situations in the class and another places in the school.
One main strategy that involves emotional aspects and thought processes is called "Minimum Conversations" (MC). These MC consist of precise indications, visual contact and an organized structure of conversation; they have been successfully implemented starting with young children.
Responsible teachers need adequate strategies to be implemented in classrooms. These strategies will be detailed in this presentation.
keywords: learning- conflict resolution- emotion visible-relationships
