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Bringing together fourteen essays originally published in Hebrew and newly revised for an English-language audience, Education in War and Peace offers a critical examination of the most enduring and urgent debates in contemporary education. It interrogates the aims of education, the relationship between teaching and learning, the chronic failures of reform, and the conditions under which schools lose or regain their vitality.
Combining philosophical analysis with practical guidance, the book confronts both long-established and newly emerging challenges. It explores how education responds to political upheaval, war and state intervention; how ideological conflicts shape educational practice; and how teachers might cultivate ethical reasoning, motivation and peace-oriented thinking. Throughout, the author develops innovative frameworks for rethinking education, grounded in his prior work on communities of thinking and strategic educational design.
This volume will appeal to scholars of education, teacher educators, school leaders, and policymakers, as well as teachers seeking intellectually rigorous ways to rethink their practice. It will also be of interest to postgraduate students and engaged parents concerned with the future direction of education in an increasingly unstable political and cultural landscape.
Contents
About the author
Preface
Introduction
Part One: Issues rising to prominence in times of conflict
Chapter 1. Education in war and peace
Chapter 2. Political education and ideological education: The case of Meir Bruchin
Chapter 3: Racism, identity, and education
Chapter 4. Toward an alternative education law: A humanist manifesto
Chapter 5. The clash of minds
Chapter 6. New software, old hardware: The challenge of twenty-first century education
Part Two: New light on intractable challenges
Chapter 7. What motivates teachers
Chapter 8. How to think about and do education
Chapter 9. Education for understanding and motivation for understanding in six steps
Chapter 10. Teaching and learning: Analysis of relationships
Chapter 11. Toward a reconstruction of the educational systems
Chapter 12. Education between despair and hope: Confession of a defeated reformer
Chapter 13. Brainstorming: On the use and abuse of neuropedagogy in education
Chapter 14. Being "Second Generation:" An autobiographical note
