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ORIGINAL RESEARCH article

Front. Educ.
Sec. Leadership in Education
Volume 9 - 2024 | doi: 10.3389/feduc.2024.1406917

The Peace Project: Creating Elementary School Peace Spaces and Places

Provisionally accepted
Whitney McIntyre Miller Whitney McIntyre Miller *Annmary S. Abdou Annmary S. Abdou Cristie Clancy Cristie Clancy Kelly Stephens Kelly Stephens
  • Chapman University, Orange, United States

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    This pilot case study paper demonstrates how school programming can be aligned and enhanced to better create a climate of peace on an elementary school campus by utilizing an integral peace leadership lens. Working collectively as a Peace Leadership Advisory Group, the elementary school leadership team, and the university research team helped to align existing programming and explore and implement new programming to create a comprehensive plan for bringing peace ideas together at the elementary school level. Observational data, surveys, and interviews with school leadership demonstrated that the efforts to build peace on campus were successful overall, with students and staff having a positive experience with peace programming throughout the academic year. The findings indicate that aligning existing programming as a way to frame a culture of peace and then supplementing that programming with additional activities serves as a way to unite a campus around the idea of peace.

    Keywords: peace, elementary, School, Education, Leadership

    Received: 25 Mar 2024; Accepted: 07 Oct 2024.

    Copyright: © 2024 McIntyre Miller, Abdou, Clancy and Stephens. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

    * Correspondence: Whitney McIntyre Miller, Chapman University, Orange, United States

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