Teaching Peace, Teaching Love | Yohana Hernández | TEDxFrutillar

This talk argues that reducing future violence starts with early childhood education. Yohana Hernández, an early childhood educator from Frutillar in southern Chile, explains how peace and kindness can be taught in the classroom through simple, everyday gestures. She is described as the first early childhood educator to win the Global Teacher Prize Chile. The event was an independently organized TEDx talk run by a local community.

• Teaching peace through simple, everyday classroom gestures
• Early childhood as the starting point for reducing violence
• A pedagogy of love developed over more than twenty years

A talk on the pedagogy of love: teaching peace in the classroom through simple, everyday gestures. Its proposal is direct: if we want less violence tomorrow, we need to look today at early childhood and at those who educate it. Yohana Hernández is an early childhood educator from Frutillar, in southern Chile. She is the first early childhood educator to win the Global Teacher Prize Chile. For over twenty years she has developed a “pedagogy of love” that teaches peace and kindness from the earliest years. She believes that reducing violence tomorrow starts with early childhood today. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx