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Award-winning teachers urge pupils to give peace a chance
Integrating lslam in “ peace teaching ” for pupils and students was a natural way to forge camaraderie and care in Thailand’ s southernmost communities, award- wining teachers say.
Ban Batu Mitraphap School 66 director Abdullateh Laemaenae, said instilling a sense of peace in the minds of youth could be achieved through friendship and co-working in classes to make the youngsters feel confident ane care for each other in their communities.
The school, in Narathiwat’s Ba Cho district, hit by two major insurgency-related blasts in recent years, is among three in the South to have received exemplary awards by Non-violence International Southeast Asia (Nisea), with support from the Canada Fund for Local Initiatives.
Teachers in the restive South received awards which were granted for their contribution to peacebuilding through peace education at school.
Ban Batu Mitraphap schoolteacher Salmah Sama-ae, 53, who received the award of "exemplary teacher" in a ceremony in Bangkok presided over by Canadian ambassador Philip Calvert on Wednesday, said peace was "the very thing people in the deep South have been longing for".
"We still hope the normalcy that we used to enjoy and were accustomed to will be restored," Ms Salmah said. "What teachers can do is instil a sense of confidence and peace in students' minds."
By solving problems in classes, students would gradually learn to build up "peace undertakings". Camaraderie would help forge mutual understanding, and a willingness to accept and forgive their peers, said Ms Salmah, who has taught at the school for 14 years.
Karmila Padung, vice-director of Khamphee Wittaya School in Yala's Bannang Sata district, said her school had launched a project "My School, My Heaven" by integrating Islam and peace teaching in school activities. "Peace and Islam are always together. Pupils and students will be taught about ethics in Islam to set peace in their mind and gradually peace will be sustained in their communities," Ms Karmila, 36, said.
The school once delivered a traditional pondok-style education when it was run by her grandfather. It was closed for many years until it was reopened about 20 years ago by Ms Karmila and her siblings.
"We will teach tabliah [chantings for purification] before beginning the normal subjects and assert chapters from kitab [the book of ethics] as the story-telling is an indirect way of teaching peace," Ms Karmila said.
Patriya Charong, director of the Sri Taksin School in Narathiwat's Rue So district, said Islam ethics were would help make children good, responsible, disciplined and caring adults.
Like Khamphee Wittya School, Sri Taksin School was also a family inheritance. Sri Taksin School teacher Nura-asah Awaebuesa, who was given an exemplary teacher award, said schools had a duty to teach students knowledge, but also to develop a strong but peaceful mind.
The Building Peace by Teaching Peace Project of Nisea has supported teacher training in the deep South for three years.
Top StoriesAward-winning teachers urge pupils to give peace a chanceIntegrating lslam in “ peace teaching ” for pupils and students was a natural way to forge camaraderie and care in Thailand’ s southernmost communities, award- wining teachers say.Ban Batu Mitraphap School 66 director Abdullateh Laemaenae, said instilling a sense of peace in the minds of youth could be achieved through friendship and co-working in classes to make the youngsters feel confident ane care for each other in their communities.The school, in Narathiwat’s Ba Cho district, hit by two major insurgency-related blasts in recent years, is among three in the South to have received exemplary awards by Non-violence International Southeast Asia (Nisea), with support from the Canada Fund for Local Initiatives.Teachers in the restive South received awards which were granted for their contribution to peacebuilding through peace education at school. Ban Batu Mitraphap schoolteacher Salmah Sama-ae, 53, who received the award of "exemplary teacher" in a ceremony in Bangkok presided over by Canadian ambassador Philip Calvert on Wednesday, said peace was "the very thing people in the deep South have been longing for". "We still hope the normalcy that we used to enjoy and were accustomed to will be restored," Ms Salmah said. "What teachers can do is instil a sense of confidence and peace in students' minds." By solving problems in classes, students would gradually learn to build up "peace undertakings". Camaraderie would help forge mutual understanding, and a willingness to accept and forgive their peers, said Ms Salmah, who has taught at the school for 14 years. Karmila Padung, vice-director of Khamphee Wittaya School in Yala's Bannang Sata district, said her school had launched a project "My School, My Heaven" by integrating Islam and peace teaching in school activities. "Peace and Islam are always together. Pupils and students will be taught about ethics in Islam to set peace in their mind and gradually peace will be sustained in their communities," Ms Karmila, 36, said. The school once delivered a traditional pondok-style education when it was run by her grandfather. It was closed for many years until it was reopened about 20 years ago by Ms Karmila and her siblings."We will teach tabliah [chantings for purification] before beginning the normal subjects and assert chapters from kitab [the book of ethics] as the story-telling is an indirect way of teaching peace," Ms Karmila said.Patriya Charong, director of the Sri Taksin School in Narathiwat's Rue So district, said Islam ethics were would help make children good, responsible, disciplined and caring adults. Like Khamphee Wittya School, Sri Taksin School was also a family inheritance. Sri Taksin School teacher Nura-asah Awaebuesa, who was given an exemplary teacher award, said schools had a duty to teach students knowledge, but also to develop a strong but peaceful mind. The Building Peace by Teaching Peace Project of Nisea has supported teacher training in the deep South for three years.
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