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Critical peace education

difficult dialogues

edited byBryan Wright

Abstract

Forward-thinking pedagogues as well as peace researchers have, in recent decades, cast a critical eye over teaching content and methodology with the aim of promulgating notions of peace and sustainability in education. This volume gives voice to the reflections of educational theorists and practitioners who have taken on the task of articulating a "curriculum of difference" that gives positive voice to these key concepts in the pedagogical arena. Here, contributors from around the world engage with paradigm-shifting discourses that reexamine questions of ontology and human subjectivity—discourses that advocate interdisciplinarity as well as the reformulation of epistemological boundaries. Deconstructing the origins and limits of human knowledge and learning, the book affords educators the opportunity to identify and express common elements of the subjects taught and studied in educational institutions, elements that facilitate students' apprehension of peace and sustainability.

With penetrating analysis of contemporary issues in the field, this volume introduces a range of fresh theoretical approaches that extend the boundaries of peace education, which is broadly defined as promoting the responsible, equitable and sustainable co-existence of differing human communities. In doing so, the chapters show how we can improve our lives as well as our chances of survival as a species by acknowledging the importance of shared human aspirations that cut across borders, of genuinely listening to alternative voices and opinions, of challenging the ubiquitous, socially constructed historical narratives that define human relations only in terms of power. Charged with vitality and originality, this new publication is a critical examination of issues central to the development and utility of global education.

Details | Table of Contents

Meditating on the barricades

concerns, cautions, and possibilities for peace education for political efficacy

Betty A. Reardon

pp.1-28

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-3945-3_1
Critical pedagogy and peace education

understanding violence, human rights, and the historical project of militant peace

Panayota Gounari

pp.69-87

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-3945-3_5
Critical emotional praxis

rethinking teaching and learning about trauma and reconciliation in schools

Michalinos Zembylas

pp.101-114

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-3945-3_7
What you see depends where you stand

critical anticolonial perspectives on genocide education addressing the 1994 rwandan genocide

Marie-Jolie RwigemaSollange Sauter Umwali

pp.115-134

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-3945-3_8
The road to inclusion

citizenship and participatory action research as a means of redressing "otherness' among homeless youth

pp.153-163

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-3945-3_11

Publication details

Publisher: Springer

Place: Dordrecht

Year: 2013

Pages: 171

DOI: 10.1007/978-90-481-3945-3

ISBN (hardback): 978-90-481-3944-6

ISBN (digital): 978-90-481-3945-3

Full citation:

Wright Bryan (2013) Critical peace education: difficult dialogues. Dordrecht, Springer.