Student Projects

Graduate students in the peace education concentration at Teachers College play an integral role in the activities and research conducted by the Peace Education Center. Following are some examples of recent student projects.

Innovative Web-based Curriculum Projects

In the summer of 2004, four graduate students in the Peace Education concentration were awarded research grants from Teachers College to develop an online curriculum project focusing on Small Arms Disarmament in Brazil.  The students were in residence in Rio de Janeiro for six weeks with the NGO, Viva Rio, internationally known for their peace campaigns and their community-based human rights programs. 
 
This curriculum project for young adults (middle school, high school, and college) is the latest volume of human rights curriculum created by the TCPEC.  For the past two years, Dr. Lucas has trained students in the design of human rights curriculum for schools and adult education settings.  The curriculum projects are first “work-shopped” in the TCPEC weekend certificate trainings, and then formally designed and composed with teams of Peace Education students.  The Small Arms Disarmament project is the Center’s third curriculum initiative that follows modules created on “Blood Diamonds,” centering on the illegal trafficking of conflict diamonds out of Sierra Leone, and “Child Labor” with a case study in Bangladesh. These curriculum projects will soon be added to the Center’s online Learning Portal. (Please contact the Center to obtain preview links for these various curriculum projects)