Full Description
This comprehensive volume on teaching peace and war demonstrates that our choice of pedagogy, or the way we structure a curriculum, must be attentive to context. Pedagogical strategies that work with one class may not work in another, whether over time or across space and different types of institutions, regardless of the field of study. This book offers insight on how to address these issues. The chapters contain valuable information on specific lessons learned and creative pedagogies developed, as well as exercises and tools that facilitate delivery in specific classrooms. The authors address a wide range of challenges related to broader questions on what teachers are trying to achieve when teaching about peace and war, including reflections on the teacher's role as a facilitator of knowledge creation.
This collection offers a valuable reference for scholars and instructors on structuring peace and war curricula in different global contexts and pedagogical strategies for a variety of classrooms.
The chapters in this book were originally published in the journal Peace Review.
Contents
1. Peace and War in the Classroom Part I: Pedagogy 2. Podcasting Pedagogy for Teaching Peace and War 3. Teaching Peace with Popoki 4. Teaching Peace Education at a South African University 5. Participatory Action Research for Peacebuilding 6. Teaching Counterfactuals from Hell 7. Truth, Sources, and the Fog of War 8. Conflict and Engagement in "Reacting to the Past" Pedagogy 9. Group Projects as Conflict Management Pedagogy 10. Teaching Religion, Conflict, and Peace Part II: Curricula 11. Idealism Versus Pragmatism in Teaching Peace in Pakistan 12. The Intrigue of Peace and War Curriculum in Africa 13. Decolonizing Practices for Western Educators 14. Teaching Peace, Not War, to U.S. History Students 15. War and Peace in Iraqi Kurdistan's History Curricula 16. Transrational Peacebuilding Education to Reduce Epistemic Violence 17. Teaching Tangible Peace 18. Teaching the United Nations, Gender, and Critical Pedagogy 19. Taking a Stand (or a Seat) in the Peace Studies Classroom 20. Circle of Praxis Pedagogy for Peace Studies
