At 8 a.m. on a Saturday morning, Delhi Public School, Pune, witnessed an outburst of energy as forty-one teachers started their day enthusiastically playing zip-zap-boing, before turning balls of energy into kittens, kittens to umbrellas, umbrellas to flowers and flowers into earrings and the like as part of the icebreaking session for the day. The…
Human rights are for everyone. It does not matter which social strata one belongs to, or the level of education. We began the workshop on human rights—to introduce the PeaceWorks Human Rights Defenders Module—for teachers at DPS Coimbatore with a round of introductions and a brief discussion on what the words human rights means to…
For me, the most interesting aspect of ‘Anne Frank—A History for Today’, the international traveling exhibition, is the fact that it engages on multiple levels. There is of course—the visual aspect—photographs of Anne, her family, the very real and unimaginable suffering that countless people had to go through. Then there are the first person accounts.…
‘Good morning Ma’am’, a chorus greeted us as we walked into the indoor games area at Delhi Public School [DPS] Patna. A group of twenty-seven middle and high school students armed with sheets of information on Anne Frank greeted us with big smiles on their faces—enough to dispel the early winter gloom. After a brief…
PeaceWorks hosted Ineke Veldhuis-Meester, Euroclio Ambassador and former Professor, Groningen University from 6 November to 13 November as part of a study visit which included the International Conference on Teaching History from 10 – 12 November 2016. Prior to the conference she was able to visit four very diverse schools and interact with teachers and…
