Primary School Curricula Towards Sustainable Peace Education in Post-genocide Rwanda

Authors

  • Edouard Ntakirutimana PhD scholar at the Chair of General Education, Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg, Germany
  • Emmanuel Niyibizi Senior Lecturer and Director of Research at Protestant University of Rwanda

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.26034/fr.jehe.2024.6893

Keywords:

Peace education, sustainable peace, school curricula, primary education

Abstract

Rwanda is a country that experienced the tragic genocide against Tutsi in 1994. In the aftermath of this, a number of initiatives were taken in the country for sustainable peace through reconstruction and reconciliation. In the education sector, peace and values education is part of the school curricula. The study at hand explores, through document analysis, the perspectives of peace education in primary school curricula of Rwanda. This study aims at explicit and implicit perspectives in which primary school curricula reflect peace education.
Though the identified perspectives seem to be promising as far as sustainable peace education is concerned, further empirical studies are recommended to explore how the stated topics, values and teaching methods are put into practice in teaching and learning process.

Author Biographies

Edouard Ntakirutimana, PhD scholar at the Chair of General Education, Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg, Germany

Edouard Ntakirutimana is a PhD scholar in Foundations of Education at Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg in Germany. He is a lecturer at Protestant University of Rwanda. His research interests include research training and integrity, global and peace education.

Email: ntaedo79@gmail.com

Emmanuel Niyibizi, Senior Lecturer and Director of Research at Protestant University of Rwanda

Emmanuel Niyibizi holds a PhD in Foundations of Education from Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg, Germany. He is a senior Lecturer and Director of Research at Protestant University of Rwanda. His research interests include educational quality, citizenship education, international education and digitalization of education.

E-mail: emafique@gmail.com

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Published

2025-01-07

How to Cite

Ntakirutimana, E., & Niyibizi, E. (2025). Primary School Curricula Towards Sustainable Peace Education in Post-genocide Rwanda. Journal of Ethics in Higher Education, (5), 199–214. https://doi.org/10.26034/fr.jehe.2024.6893

Issue

No. 5 (2024): Ethics in Open and Distance Education

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Non-thematic Articles

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