TEACHING PEACE CULTURE IN CONFLICT TREATMENT: A CASE STUDY ON MEDIATION AS A TOOL FOR SUSTAINABLE REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT IN THE LAW COURSE OF A HEI IN CARIRI
Culture of peace, education, curriculum, mediation, sustainability
The study presents discussions about the culture of peace and curriculum in the Bachelor of Laws course, from a Higher Education Institution in the Metropolitan Region of Cariri, under the prism of objective number 16 - for Sustainable Regional Development-ODS, whatever the to promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, to provide access to justice for all and to build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels. Based on the National Curriculum Guidelines and Resolution No. 5 of December 17, 2018, of the National Education Council - CNE and the Higher Education Chamber - CES, which regulates the Bachelor of Law course, the general objective of the research was to identify in the curriculum of this course and in the pedagogical practices of teachers, the valuation of the culture of peace and the mediation of conflicts as a possibility of education for sustainability, collaborating for sustainable regional development. As specific objectives, we sought to make explicit the legal ordering of Brazilian higher education and the principles that guide teaching practices, to identify the presence, in the curricular guidelines of the law course, of the culture of peace in its relationship with conflict mediation and to investigate in the Curriculum Matrix and in the Law Course Menu of an HEI in the Metropolitan Region of Cariri, the presence of disciplines that contemplate the theme of the culture of peace, through mediation and consensual treatment of conflicts, as well as to identify the presence of these themes in the pedagogical practices and in the didactics applied by the teachers in the subjects of the referred Law course. Descriptive and exploratory research was used, with data collection in the field through the collection of documents (Pedagogical Political Project and Discipline Plans), the application of a questionnaire to teachers and an interview with a teacher. Data processing was performed using a quantitative and qualitative approach. The computer program Iramuteq was used in order to facilitate the lexical analysis of certain documents.
The study allowed us to conclude that the Pedagogical Political Project-PPP of the investigated course has only one optional subject called Conflict Mediation, when Resolution No. 5/2018, points to the need for it to be mandatory. Regarding the questionnaire applied to teachers and the interview conducted with a teacher, it is clear that there is knowledge about the theme and conducting pedagogical practices that foster a culture of peace, mediation and the appropriate treatment of conflicts in the teaching, research and extension, corroborating for sustainable regional development, through education for sustainability.