Challenges of Offering Peace Education among Educational Leaders: A Case Study of Malaysian Public Primary School

This paper explores the challenges of offering peace education in public primary school in Malaysia. In exact, this study: first, investigates how school educational leaders perceive peace education and how peace education could be included in the school curriculum. This study has adopted a qualitat...

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Main Authors:	Khairuddin, Ahmad Zulfadhli, Abd Razak, Afareez, Idrus, Faizah, Ismail, Nik Ahmad Hisham
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	2019
Subjects:	H Social Sciences (General) H62 Study and teaching. Research L Education (General)
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spelling	iium-766462019-11-28T08:43:18Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/76646/ Challenges of Offering Peace Education among Educational Leaders: A Case Study of Malaysian Public Primary School Khairuddin, Ahmad Zulfadhli Abd Razak, Afareez Idrus, Faizah Ismail, Nik Ahmad Hisham H Social Sciences (General) H62 Study and teaching. Research L Education (General) This paper explores the challenges of offering peace education in public primary school in Malaysia. In exact, this study: first, investigates how school educational leaders perceive peace education and how peace education could be included in the school curriculum. This study has adopted a qualitative design, employing semi-structured interview as an instrument of data collection. Findings suggest that all respondents reported that they mutually agreed to include peace education as part of the curriculum to maintain harmony, inculcate tolerance among students, minimize conflicts and know their country’s history. Obstacles and challenges in introducing peace education as a subject in the school’s curricular can be minimized to implementation of costs and teacher training. Lack of expertise and lack of interests among students are identified as another challenge in introducing peace education. Furthermore, school educational leaders were found to have low levels of awareness, knowledge, and skills related to peace education. 2019-06 Article NonPeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/76646/1/challenges-of-offering-peace-education-among-educational-leaders-a-case-study-of-malaysian-public-5811.pdf Khairuddin, Ahmad Zulfadhli and Abd Razak, Afareez and Idrus, Faizah and Ismail, Nik Ahmad Hisham (2019) Challenges of Offering Peace Education among Educational Leaders: A Case Study of Malaysian Public Primary School. American Journal of Qualitative Research, 3 (1). pp. 57-71. ISSN 2576-2141 http://www.ajqr.org
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spellingShingle	H Social Sciences (General) H62 Study and teaching. Research L Education (General) Khairuddin, Ahmad Zulfadhli Abd Razak, Afareez Idrus, Faizah Ismail, Nik Ahmad Hisham Challenges of Offering Peace Education among Educational Leaders: A Case Study of Malaysian Public Primary School
description	This paper explores the challenges of offering peace education in public primary school in Malaysia. In exact, this study: first, investigates how school educational leaders perceive peace education and how peace education could be included in the school curriculum. This study has adopted a qualitative design, employing semi-structured interview as an instrument of data collection. Findings suggest that all respondents reported that they mutually agreed to include peace education as part of the curriculum to maintain harmony, inculcate tolerance among students, minimize conflicts and know their country’s history. Obstacles and challenges in introducing peace education as a subject in the school’s curricular can be minimized to implementation of costs and teacher training. Lack of expertise and lack of interests among students are identified as another challenge in introducing peace education. Furthermore, school educational leaders were found to have low levels of awareness, knowledge, and skills related to peace education.
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author	Khairuddin, Ahmad Zulfadhli Abd Razak, Afareez Idrus, Faizah Ismail, Nik Ahmad Hisham
author_facet	Khairuddin, Ahmad Zulfadhli Abd Razak, Afareez Idrus, Faizah Ismail, Nik Ahmad Hisham
author_sort	Khairuddin, Ahmad Zulfadhli
title	Challenges of Offering Peace Education among Educational Leaders: A Case Study of Malaysian Public Primary School
title_short	Challenges of Offering Peace Education among Educational Leaders: A Case Study of Malaysian Public Primary School
title_full	Challenges of Offering Peace Education among Educational Leaders: A Case Study of Malaysian Public Primary School
title_fullStr	Challenges of Offering Peace Education among Educational Leaders: A Case Study of Malaysian Public Primary School
title_full_unstemmed	Challenges of Offering Peace Education among Educational Leaders: A Case Study of Malaysian Public Primary School
title_sort	challenges of offering peace education among educational leaders: a case study of malaysian public primary school
publishDate	2019
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