The Effect of a Peace Education Program on Training Global Citizens

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This study aimed to investigate the effectiveness of a ‘peace education program’ in training global citizens. The study followed a quasiexperimental pretest-posttest control-group design. The population of the study included all male high school students of Rasht city (N=6932) in the academic year 2010-2011. From this population, two groups of 30 (one experimental and one control) were selected through cluster random sampling method. A use was made of a 20-item-researcher-made questionnaire after it was validated with a reliability index of 0.82. The instrument was administered to the experimental group during before and after treatment. Data were analyzed using both descriptive and inferential (ANCOVA) statistics. The results revealed that there was a significant difference between the posttest scores of the control and experimental groups. Thus, it was concluded that the peace education program could enhance global citizens’ training, increase the trainees’ knowledge and competency, and cultivate their global citizenship attitude.
 

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