Abstract
Among the three integral components of peace education, that is, knowledge,
skills, and attitudes, the last one is of practical significance for peaceful co
existence at any level whether personal, interpersonal, intergroup, or at national
or international. This aspect is extensively studied by researchers around the
world. Hence, the researchers have tried to investigate the same phenomenon in
the Pakistani context. In this study the attitudes and perceptions of secondary
school teachers were explored. The data was collected from 300 secondary
school teachers as respondents in 03 districts in Khyber Pakhtun Khwa, though
multi stage random sampling technique. Duly pilot tested, together with
ensuring the reliability of the tool through Cronbach alpha which was. 92. The
analysis of data revealed that majority of the teachers possess high level attitude
towards peace. It was explored there was no significant difference between the
responses of male and female respondents. Furthermore, it was found that there
was no difference between the responses of urban and rural respondents, and
both possess high attitude towards peace. On the basis of findings of the study
specific recommendations were presented.
Neelam M.Phil, Habib Elahi Sahibzada. (2016) Peace Education as a tool for establishing long term peace: secondary school teachers ‘Attitudes and perceptions, Journal of Arts and Social sciences, Volume 3, Issue 1.
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