Educating for Peace in a Time of Permanent War: Are Schools Part of the Solution or the Problem?

by Carr; Paul R.

• ISBN13: 9780415899208
• ISBN10: 0415899206
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2012-05-16
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Little is done in schools at the formal and informal levels to address war and peace, especially in relation to what can and should be done to bring about peace. This volume seeks to provide a range of policy, pedagogical, curriculum and institutional analyses aimed at facilitating meaningful engagement toward a more robust and critical examination of the role that schools play in framing war, militarization and armed conflict.

Author Biography

Paul R. Carr is Associate Professor in the Deportments of Sociology and Interdisciplinary Studies at Iakehead University, Orillia, Canada. Brad J. Porfilio is Associate Professor of Education at Lewis University, Illinois, USA.

Table of Contents

List of Tables and Figures	p. xiii
Preface: In Search of Peace in a Culture of War	p. xv
Acknowledgments	p. xxiii
Introduction: Framing Peace and War Within the Educational Project-Willful (Dis)Engagement and the Meaning (and Cost) of Conflict	p. 1
Theorizing Peace, War and Peace
Militaristic Privilege in Schools and Beyond: Challenges for Peace Educators	p. 41
Saying "No!": The Power of Transformative Learning	p. 55
"Why Do Students Call Me 'The War Teacher'?" Problematizing Militarism in Education as a Freireian Codification	p. 69
Reexamining the Role of Intellectuals in Times of War Through the Lens of Edward Said's Work: A Call for Action to Social-Justice Educators	p. 84
Scanning the War in Our Daily (and Educational) Lives
A Pedagogy of Ceaseless War: JROTC and the Military Occupation of US Schools	p. 101
The Way of the Soldier-Jarheads and Hurt Lockers: Perpetual War, Identity, and Critical Media Literacy	p. 115
The Curriculum of War and Peace
Moving From a Curriculum of Compliance to a Curriculum of Possibility: Militarization of Schools, State Curricular Standards, and Creating Democratic Spaces for Teaching Military Conflict	p. 133
The Military-Industrial-University Complex and Social Science: A Brief History and Current Update of a Professional Contribution to War	p. 148
Art and Culturally Relevant Pedagogy Versus Warring Words in a Race to the Frontline	p. 163
Internationalizing Peace and the Trauma of War and Conflict
Who Owns Education for Peace and for War? Peace/War Industry and Ethnic Stratification-The Case of One Underprivileged School in Israel	p. 183
Open the Doors, Paint the Walls, and Ignore the Bells: Refashioning the Post-Movimiento Classroom to Foment "Civic Space" Ties	p. 197
Swimming Against the Current: Educating for Peace in the University Classroom in Turkey	p. 209
Resisting the Militarization of Education
Building a Movement: Counterrecruitment Organizing in US Public Schools	p. 227
Creating Peaceful and Nonviolent Schools in the Midst of a Culture of War and Violence	p. 243
War and the Sectarian Mind: Education and the Development of Consciousness in the Age of "Permanent War"	p. 255
Afterword: Reflecting on Critical Perspectives of Peace Education	p. 271
Contributors	p. 279
About the Editors	p. 287
Index	p. 289
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