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- Title
Pictorial and Narrative Representations of Children's Peace Perceptions.
- Authors
Güleç, Yasemin
- Abstract
The aim of this study is to reveal children's perceptions of peace through drawings and semi-structured interviews. The second aim of the research is to make inferences about peace education based on the results. Participants consist of 22 students aged 11-12 studying at a public school in Karlsruhe / Pforzheim. The study was designed with phenomenological research method. The data were analyzed by semiotic analysis of the drawings and content analysis of semi-structured interviews. As a result of drawings and interview analysis in the study, the meaning of peace was revealed to be at most "positive peace." Although students mostly used peace icons, indexes and symbols in their peace drawings, they also used about half of the icons, indexes and symbols of war. In the interviews, the meaning of peace was most defined as "interpersonal peace", which is the most common theme related to positive peace in the literature, secondly "general social peace" and least "peace in nature." About half of the children defined peace as "the absence of war" both in drawings and negotiations. In the discussions on the meaning of peace, negative peace was defined mostly as "negative interpersonal peace", secondly, similar to the common perception in the literature, "absence of the war", and least "negative individual peace."
- Subjects
PICTURES; PEACEBUILDING; PEACE; OUTCOME-based education; CHILDREN'S drawings; SEMI-structured interviews
- Publication
Bartin University Journal of Faculty of Education, 2021, Vol 10, Issue 2, p390
- ISSN
1308-7177
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.14686/buefad.816071