Peace Education Integration and Values Formation Among Learners in Kiblawan North District

Abstract

The study assessed the extent of peace education integration among teachers and its association with the formation of values among learners in Kiblawan North District, Davao del Sur Schools Division. The study used a non-experimental descriptive-correlational research design, utilizing an adapted survey instrument to gather responses from the randomly selected teacher-respondents. Data collected were treated using Mean scores with descriptive interpretation, Pearson r, and Simple Linear Regression Analysis. Findings revealed that the extent of peace education components integration among teachers in terms of cultivating inner peace, living with peace and compassion, promoting human rights and responsibilities, living in harmony with the earth, building cultural respect, reconciliation, and solidarity, and dismantling the culture of war suggest moderately extensive, and likewise, the extent of values formation among learners in terms of parents’ values peer values and cultural values suggest extensive. There was a significant relationship between peace education components integration and values formation among learners. All domains of peace education components significantly influence the values formation among learners in terms of dismantling the culture of war, living with peace and compassion, promoting human rights and responsibilities, building cultural respect, reconciliation, and solidarity, living in harmony with the earth, and cultivating inner peace.