Abstract
The increasing cases of terrorism and extremism unite practitioners and theoreticians to put serious attention to the role of education for peacebuilding. However, finding an appropriate strategy connecting literature education to peacebuilding is challenging. Thus, the study explored the effectiveness of engaging suitable literary works to be used at schools to convey a peaceful message through To Kill a Mockingbird (TKAM) and The Kite Runner (TKR). The study was conducted in 4 classes of Literary Work Analysis course of IAIN Syekh Nurjati students in the second semester of 2018/2019 by applying Wahyudin’s (2018) five factors of peace education implementation in the classrooms. The study aimed to 1) investigate how to integrate peace education into the literature class and 2) elucidate the students' perception of peace education in the integrated literature class. It was found that applying peace education should consider 1) objectives, 2) subject contents, 3) methods and strategies, 4) media, and 5) learning evaluation. Students also perceived and learned about peace education by addressing some related issues in their papers and a survey.
Highlights
Most of the histories of any nation have always been about wars and conflicts where peace is always challenged as well as fought for
Integrating Peace Education in Literature Class To ensure the smooth implementation of peace education in the classroom setting, the researchers chose carefully the five factors of teaching peace education by Wahyudin (2018), they were 1) objectives that students are expected to achieve as the learning outcomes,2) subject contents that are suitable for the related topics in peace education, 3) methods and strategies to p-ISSN: 2252-6323 e-ISSN: 2721-4540
After reading To Kill a Mockingbird (TKAM) and The Kite Runner (TKR), the students were familiar with some new terms like genocides, stereotypes, overgeneralization, and ethnocentrism
Summary
Most of the histories of any nation have always been about wars and conflicts where peace is always challenged as well as fought for. Current modern societies do not go to war with one another, the peaceful condition is not automatically prevailed in the world. Peace remains a desirable condition of many countries. Terrorism and extremism have taken place in several countries, leaving an unfavourable impression that some religion “allows” for attacking and killing innocent people from other religions. It creates a domino effect that other unattacked countries feel no longer safe. Peace is an attempt and a condition that many governments try to impose on their countries
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