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'Honorable Mention' 2017 PROSE Award - Education Practice 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

Title Peace education : international perspectives / edited by Monisha Bajaj and Maria Hantzopoulos.
Publisher London
New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing, Plc
Creation Date [2016]
Notes Description based upon print version of record.
Also issued in print.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
English
Content Introduction: Theory, Research and Praxis of Peace Education, Monisha Bajaj (University of San Francisco, USA) and Maria Hantzopoulos (Vassar College, USA) -- Part I: Educating for Peace in Conflict and Post-Traumatic Contexts -- 1. Emotion, Trauma and Critical Pedagogy: Implications for Critical Peace Education, Michalinos Zembylas (Open University of Cyprus, Cyprus) -- 2. Building Peace: The Opportunities and Limitations of Educational Interventions in Countries with Identity-Based Conflicts, Karen Murphy (Facing History and Ourselves, USA), Sean Pettis (Corrymeela Community, Northern Ireland) and Dylan Wray (Shikaya, South Africa) -- 3. Experimenting with Integrated Peace Education: Critical Perspectives in the Israeli Context, Zvi Bekerman (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel) -- Part II: National Landscapes for Peacebuilding and Education -- 4. Peace Education and Peacebuilding Across the Conflict Continuum: Insights from Lebanon, Zeena Zakharia (University of Massachusetts, USA) -- 5. Peace Education in Crisis Settings: Insights and Lessons Learned from Kenya, Mary Mendenhall and Nivedita Chopra (Columbia University, USA) -- 6. In the Gaze of Gandhi: Peace Education in Contemporary India, Monisha Bajaj (University of San Francisco, USA) -- Part III: Navigating Structures of Violence -- 7. Uncertainty, fluidity and occupying spaces in-between: Peace education practices in Mindanao, the Philippines, Lindsey Horner (University of Sussex, UK) -- 8. Lingering Colonialities as Blockades to Peace Education: School Violence in Trinidad, Hakim Williams (Gettysburg College, USA) -- 9. Teachers as Agents of Peace: The Role of Educators in Interrupting Youth Involvement in Urban Violence in Guayaquil, Ecuador, Maria Jose Bermeo (Columbia University, USA) -- Part IV: Peace by Piece: Approaches and Models for Peace Education -- 10. Beyond American Exceptionalism: Centering Critical Peace Education in US School Reform, Maria Hantzopoulos (Vassar College, USA) -- 11. Nurturing and Growing the 'Ceeds' of Peace: A Peacebuilding Model for Educators, Maya Soetoro-Ng (University of Hawai'i, USA) and Kerrie Urosevich (University of Hawai'i, USA) -- 12. Promoting Peace through Children's Media: The Case of Sesame Workshop, Mathangi Subramanian (Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Education for Peace and Sustainable Development, India), June Lee (Sesame Workshop, USA) Lilith Dollard (Sesame Workshop, USA) and Zainab Kabba (Oxford University, UK) -- Conclusion: Critical Directions for Peace Education, Maria Hantzopoulos (Vassar College, USA) and Monisha Bajaj (University of San Francisco, USA)
Extent 1 online resource (298 p.)
Language English
National Library system number 997010719294005171
MARC RECORDS
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