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  Theme: What is needed to promote peace education "Academic Studies"?

What is the problem of peace education? ... Can peace pedagogy answer each question?
 ・Students do not follow the teacher's passion for peace education.
 ・Teachers do not have enough time for peace education because there is too much ________ education in schools. Also, there are too many types of research reports.
 ・In Kagoshima, war sites and peace education are seen as a form of tourism.
 ・Sometimes the exhibits at the Peace Museum are criticized as biased. Exhibitions at the Peace Museum are influenced by outside funding.
 ・Fewer schools are participating or applying to iEARN.

Issues in Peace Education
 ・Systematization of peace education is needed. How to establish linkages between related educational areas?
 ・Each researcher interested in peace education has a different educational area and different research methods.
 ・There should be a juxtaposition of diverse ideas about peace education research, which can be organized and systematized.
 ・There are some doubts about the idea that peace education will shift from "content" to "method. Methods may be over-emphasized; for example, too much attention is paid to workshops.
 ・In peace education, "method" should be used to deepen understanding of content, and understanding of "content" should not be neglected in favor of new methods. Discussions and workshops can only take place when children have a solid understanding of the content when learning.

Comment
 ・The "New Peace Education for Peace Creation," which is the research result of the Peace Education Project Committee of the Japan Association for Peace Studies, does not have enough academic support. For each content of practice, there should be more commitment from experts in the field.
 ・UNESCO is discussing the revision of the 1974 UNESCO Recommendations for International Understanding Education. The evaluation at that time was low. UNESCO Schools have been criticized for having only a large number of statistics and not accompanying the actual situation in the field.
 ・Peace pedagogy is considered to be one of the platforms (platforms or frames).

Suggestions for Peace Pedagogy
 ・Add other items to the Encyclopedia of Peace Pedagogy (will it lead to systematization of peace education?).
 ・As a textbook, "peace" should be associated with each chapter of pedagogy and principles of education.