Three Decades of Peace Education around the World: An Anthology

by Burns,Robin J.; Burns,Robin J.

• ISBN13: 9780824055493
• ISBN10: 0824055497
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1996-02-01
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

The current world order poses new challenges to the theory and practice of peace education. Drawing on data gathered from around the world, Burns and Aspeslagh focus on how peace is presented in formal and informal educational settings and what effects ideologies have in shaping that presentation. The book views peace education in the context of education about other major social and political issues and in a variety of geopolitical settings, exploring factors that affect the generation, selection, organization, transmission, and evaluation of knowledge for peace. Following a review of major approaches to policy and praxis in peace education, the editors draw on original research to offer interpretations based on pragmatic, normative, and conceptual approaches to the individual, the state, and the role of political literacy. The use of a comparative educational framework that goes beyond curriculum studies and descriptive case studies presents a perspective that is innovative, and timely. Thevolume includes both bibliography and index.

Table of Contents

Series Editor's Foreword
Foreword
Peace Education and the Comparative Study of Education	p. 3
Approaching Peace Through Education: Background, Concepts and Theoretical Issues	p. 25
A Global Strategy for Communication and Consciousness Raising in Various Local Settings	p. 73
Toward a Definition of Peace Studies	p. 79
On Inclusion and Exclusion	p. 97
Problems of Legitimation of Peace Education	p. 113
Peace Education on the Back of the Peace Movement: Some Shared Problems	p. 129
Militarism and Sexism: Influences on Education for War	p. 143
Racial Justice, Global Development or Peace: Which Shall We Choose in School?	p. 161
Toward a Better World? A Paradigmatic Analysis of Development Education Resources from the World Bank	p. 175
The Ecology Movement - A New Field for Peace Education	p. 211
The Role of Peace Education in Peace Building in Africa	p. 223
Peace Education as a Protest and Resistance Against Marginalization and Eurogentrism: Peace Education in a Violent Context: The Middle East Wars as a Case Study	p. 237
Polish Educational Values: Nationalism or Globalism?	p. 253
Adult Education for Peacebuilding: A Challenge to Peace Research and Peace Education	p. 263
TAGASAN: Students Organizations as Alternative Education	p. 273
Think and Teach Globally - Act Locally: Participants or Onlookers: A Research Program	p. 291
A Peace Museum as a Center for Peace Education: What Do Japanese Students Think of Peace Museums?	p. 307
Educating for a Peace Culture	p. 321
Postmodernism, Peace Culture and Peace Education	p. 341
Do Practical Realists Appear to Be Dreamers? Peace Educators Meeting and Acting Globally and Locally	p. 361
Dreamers Appear to Be Practical Realists: Peace Education as a "Grand Narration"	p. 379
Contributors	p. 397
Index	p. 405
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