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This chapter will address how schools can contribute to young people’s personal and social development and foster qualities that contribute to peace. It will draw on recent research and thinking on related topics such as mental health, bullying, and psychological processes. The thesis is that schools have become too cognitively focused and that the personal and social education of young people is crucial to wider global and national issues such as peace and attitudes to strangers. While we know that schools can make a telling contribution to these matters, we are not developing or focusing on these aspects.
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This section relies heavily on C. McLaughlin (2020). Relearning the Value of Direct Experience: Schools as Ethical Communities. In S. Gill and G. Thomson (2020). Ethical Education towards an Ecology of Human Development. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press), 113–126.
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McLaughlin, C. (2022). Building Enabling Environments in Schools as a Contribution to Peace. In: Hermansen, M., Aslan, E., Erşan Akkılıç, E. (eds) Peace Education and Religion: Perspectives, Pedagogy, Policies. Wiener Beiträge zur Islamforschung. Springer VS, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-36984-2_12
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