Peace Education : International Perspectives
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Bringing together the voices of scholars and practitioners on challenges and possibilities of implementing peace education in diverse global sites, this book addresses key questions for students seeking to deepen their understanding of the field. The book not only highlights ground-breaking and rich qualitative studies from around the globe, but also analyses the limits and possibilities of peace education in diverse contexts of conflict and post-conflict societies. Contributing authors address how educators and learners can make meaning of international peace education efforts, how various forms of peace and violence interact in and around schools, and how the field of peace education has evolved and grown over the past four decades.
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"The volume helpfully highlights the need to move beyond conventional framings of peace that are confined to the classroom, and instead to consider localized and contextualized approaches that address questions of
social justice … This book will be of interest to agencies that design education intervention programs, often in collaboration with government institutions; NGOs involved in the education sector; curriculum designers and teachers of history and civics; and, finally, researchers who are rethinking what peace education entails." - Journal on Education in Emergencies
“This collection of essays and qualitative case studies provides an excellent introduction to the field of peace education in general and the idea and practice of critical peace education in particular. It offers the reader an international, comparative and grounded insight into the foundational questions of peace education as it is conceptualized and implemented in diverse contexts around the world, especially within conflict and post-conflict societies. It is one of the finest volumes on critical peace education available. It will be ideal for general and introductory courses in peace education. The book deserves a wide readership.” —Dale T. Snauwaert, Professor of Philosophy of Education and Co-Director of the Graduate Certificate in the Foundations of Peace Education, The University of Toledo, USA
“Today, when profound conflicts continue to spread globally, no book could be more timely than this important new title about peace education and the latest developments in theory and practice. In each of the richly nuanced and localized studies, Hantzopoulos, Bajaj and colleagues showcase the potential to transform individual and collective lives when peace education, in all its variations, centers a critical and justice orientation to teaching and learning. With this book we are presented with indispensable conceptual and pedagogical tools, and for a better tomorrow we are called upon to act.” —Kevin Kumashiro, Dean and Professor, School of Education, University of San Francisco, USA
“Peace Education: International Perspectives offers a thought-provoking and nuanced alternative to the often-oversimplified macro-institutional approaches to peace education. Editors of and contributors to the volume ask us to imagine human(ist) potentialities for the possibility of sustainable peace. With piquant analysis of contemporary issues in the field they also urge us to interrogate the entrenched Eurocentric normative frameworks in order to grapple with complex questions related to the intertwined dynamics of violence and peace at micro as well as macro levels. Coupling theoretical visions with practical insights, this volume will be a vital resource for students and teachers of peace education.” —M. Ayaz Naseem, Professor of Education, Concordia University, Canada and First Georg Arnhold Research Professor of Educating for Sustainable Peace, Georg Eckert Institute, Germany
“This well written book gives us a view of attempts to enliven peace education all over the world. It will be of particular interest to those concerned with the contributions of critical theory to peacemaking.” —Nel Noddings, Lee Jacks Professor of Education Emerita, Stanford University, USA
“The theoretical and practice-oriented essays constitute a much need guidebook for those of us wanting more understanding, trying to “connect the dots” of seemingly unconnected particulars, and engaging in one kind of “peace work” or another. Peace Education: International Perspectives is impactful, comforting and inspiring, and much needed for the times!” —Margo Okazawa-Rey, Professor Fielding Graduate University and Professor Emerita, San Francisco State University, USA
ISBN: 9781474233682