Individual Peacebuilding practices in Elementary Schools: Perceptions of Teachers

Abstract

Human being has a profound relationship with peace in their individual and social life, which is why people study peace deeply and widely. Focus of the present study was to analysis of on-going and desired individual peacebuilding practices through the perception of 140 male and female teachers of humanity subjects at elementary school level from 36 selected schools of 3 sampled districts of Punjab. Survey methods was used to carry out this study. The informants were selected through multistage sampling technique. One self-developed questionnaire for the teachers was computed after pilot testing applying Cronbach’s Alpha. The value of Cronbach’s Alpha of both questionnaires was found 0.81. It was found that mean gain score of desired level of individual peacebuilding practices was significantly greater than the mean gain score of ongoing individual peacebuilding practices in elementary schools.