Thoughts on education including classes (or a general teaching architecture/methodology) on how to deal with and ultimately try to resolve all kinds of conflict?

hey so first off, i have no idea where this post would be better served than here, i was thinking /r/science but that felt less accurate than /r/education. SO:

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i realized that schools (at least the ones i ended up in in the usa or any of the ones i've otherwise heard of in depth) never really dealt with conflict in an educational capacity despite conflict being a nonstop theme in all of human society. at first i'd think that it's something that should be taken care of at home buuut... that's just not happening for the most part. the reality there is they only get taught that whatever the parents are ok with is what everyone is ok with, which can work in some family settings but others nowhere near as well.

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in essence, this would be something that would be formally taught that is not simply smashing information into students' brains, but rather teaching them how to recognize, approach, and resolve conflict. take the scientific method, for example. that is taught alongside science classes (usually) and rather than being simply a factoid is in actuality a methodology for figuring things out that students can (and should) make use of in other aspects of their life beyond science. in the same way, this (proposed?) class would teach ways to deal with conflict both internally and externally as well as potentially how to recognize conflict in other people (basically taught-empathy as part of said class-thing).

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there's a bunch of potential outcomes of people as is, those that fear and avoid conflict, those that spread/instigate conflict, those totally apathetic to it, even those totally untouched by or fully immersed in conflict, and many more i can't currently think of or don't even know. these situations and more would be the kind of things said class would work to mitigate (and while they're at it, teaching empathy and practical psychology) and result in students who at the very least know how to deal with conflict in an appropriate manner while also how to avoid creating unnecessary conflict but understanding that creating conflict can be totally healthy (such as dealing with those creating unnecessary conflict).

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bullying, as an example, where the bully would be taught why not to do such shit and/or otherwise how to deal with emotions/situations which result in that kind of behavior (and in the cases where the bullied may need help in this, how to deal with bullies when all else fails.) personally, i'm of the opinion that violence may be used to defend oneself and others, but afaik schools in the usa fervently forbid that and i don't really know where the rest of society stands on that. of course, i also know that bullies are also usually cowards and sometimes a well placed retort or two can get them to fuck off far better than a punch to the nose. so, while i personally think they shouldn't take that off of the table as completely as it currently is, violence should not be the kind of action such a class should lead with when dealing with conflict (but, again, that sometimes violence is totally justified in response to certain actions).

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so, yeah. what do you peeps of /r/education think of this kind of education? cuz i know there's a void for this kind of methodology to be taught to people (at the very least in the usa) but idk if doing it in school as a formal class is the way to go.

Submitted November 21, 2021 at 05:14PM by Retrikaethan https://ift.tt/2Z94hd4