Educating for Peace in a Time of Permanent War
Are Schools Part of the Solution or the Problem?
- 292 pages
- English
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Educating for Peace in a Time of Permanent War
Are Schools Part of the Solution or the Problem?
About this book
What is the meaning of peace, why should we study it, and how should we achieve it? Although there are an increasing number of manuscripts, curricula and initiatives that grapple with some strand of peace education, there is, nonetheless, a dearth of critical, cross-disciplinary, international projects/books that examine peace education in conjunction with war and conflict. Within this volume, the authors contend that war/military conflict/violence are not a nebulous, far-away, mysterious venture; rather, they argue that we are all, collectively, involved in perpetrating and perpetuating militarization/conflict/violence inside and outside of our own social circles. Therefore, education about and against war can be as liberating as it is necessary. If war equates killing, can our schools avoid engaging in the examination of what war is all about? If education is not about peace, then is it about war? Can a society have education that willfully avoids considering peace as its central objective? Can a democracy exist if pivotal notions of war and peace are not understood, practiced, advocated and ensconced in public debate? These questions, according to Carr and Porfilio and the contributors they have assembled, merit a critical and extensive reflection. This book seeks to provide a range of epistemological, policy, pedagogical, curriculum and institutional analyses aimed at facilitating meaningful engagement toward a more robust and critical examination of the role that schools play (and can play) in framing war, militarization and armed conflict and, significantly, the connection to peace.
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Table of contents
- Front Cover
- Educating for Peace in a Time of âPermanent Warâ
- Copyright
- Contents
- List of Tables and Figures
- Preface: In Search of Peace in a Culture of War
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Introduction Framing Peace and War Within the Educational ProjectâWillful (Dis)Engagement and the Meaning (and Cost) of Conflict
- Part I Theorizing Peace, War and Peace
- Part II Scanning the War in Our Daily (and Educational) Lives
- Part III The Curriculum of War and Peace
- Part IV Internationalizing Peace and the Trauma of War and Conflict
- Part V Resisting the Militarization of Education
- Afterword: Reflecting on Critical Perspectives of Peace Education
- Contributors
- About the Editors
- Index