Online training with Open Learn
If you're looking to explore peace education, you can start right now thanks to our free online course hosted by Open Learn.
Principles and practices of peace education explores how peace might be built in everyday classroom practice. Study at your own pace as you discover activities to build inner-peace and wellbeing; interpersonal peace and critical thinking about the world beyond the classroom.
This course is offered for free, drawing on the experience of Quakers and many others in the field. You can register here.
Current training offers
We often have training events planned. Keep an eye on our Eventbrite page for training you can book to attend online and in-person.
Training in your setting
We can provide training in your setting. Peace education is increasingly recognised as key for teachers' development. Whether empowering students with skills like conflict resolution, creating a culture of peace and nonviolence in the classroom, or engaging with global themes like climate justice or war, peace education is also crucial for children's rights and learning.
Drawing on the principles laid out in Peace at the heart: a relational approach to education in British Schools, multiple classroom resources, and decades of delivering and supporting peace education in schools, Quakers in Britain can support Initial Teacher Education and Continuing Professional Development with training appropriate to phase and curriculum area. This could introduce the overall peace education field, a theme such as interpersonal peace or global citizenship, or how to explore a specific topic such as a contemporary armed conflict.
As Quakers in Britain is a charity, this training can be offered without charge, though contributions to expenses are welcome.
“Genuinely one the most useful and inspiring workshops I've ever attended"
- RE Student teacher
“This service for teachers is brilliant and we have formalised it in the curriculum so will want it every year for the rest of time!"
UCL Citizenship PGCE course leader
“It gives us new perspectives and ideas about recent conflicts I the world and how we as an educator can contribute to a change for peace"
- Student Teacher, UCL STEP Programme