Peace education as basic cross-curricular topic at schools

Abstract

Cross-curricular themes like peace education have a long tradition of being part of curricula but are not really part of the subjects at school. The German pedagogue Wolfgang Klafki tried to solve the link between subjects and goals of general education with the idea of introducing students to „key problems “of our time like how to gain and maintain peace. The paper will summarize his theory and derive consequences for peace education with regard to the curriculum and the school system.