A group of individuals with consciously motivated behaviour that is ethical in submission to a Higher Power that is more knowledgeable, more objective and caring; who together facilitate the effective holistic learning and growth of all their members and consciously transform themselves, their enduring culture and their context; and who have learned how to communicate honestly with each other, whose relationships go deeper than their masks of composure, and who have developed some significant commitment to rejoice together, mourn together and to delight in each other, make others’ conditions their own. Members of civil learning communities become responsive servant leaders; they do things they did not know they were capable of; learn more easily, become eager to learn, and become more intelligent because they tap more from the universe; exude energies from reserves they did not even know they had; and have no energy for destructive behaviours ( Peck, 1987 ; Pedler, Burgoyne & Boydell, 1997 ; Spiritual Resources, 2020 ).
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The Universal Language of Sustaining Quality Peace and Resilience: Enhancing Learning and Harmony Across Cultures
Mafole Sematlane (MakeOver Institution Building, Lesotho)
Copyright: © 2022
|Pages: 27
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-6684-5034-5.ch009
Abstract
Humanity's traditional approach to social problems, inequities, and abuses has been a deficit approach, using force, largely reactive, taking recourse to legalistic action, protests, or demonstrations. Social problems, inequities, and abuses continue despite efforts at building peace and resilience. Experts say that society knows very little about what peace is, and what it is not, because it studies peace only in terms of war, violence, aggression, and conflict. They advise that power (love) accomplishes with ease what force (fear, separation – legalistic action, warfare, protests, etc.) even with extreme effort cannot. This chapter introduces the universal language of and the underlying processes for sustaining quality peace and resilience as the means for affecting the necessary change from the deficit approach to power-based approaches. Teaching and learning the language of sustaining quality peace and resilience at all levels of education will contribute to quality education and education equity significantly.