Full Description
This book explores the role education has played in fostering or hindering reconciliation between groups divided by violent and/or social conflict. What is the relationship between education and reconciliation initiatives? Who encourages and enacts it and who discourages and detracts from it? Do reconciliatory educational practices offer any insight into the nature of reconciliation as a process? Drawing on international research in numerous countries, including Bosnia Herzegovina, Rwanda, South Africa, Jordan, Peru and the USA, the contributors consider, conceptually and empirically, the role of education in reconciling societies, groups and individuals divided by conflict. These case studies expand conceptual and empirical understandings of the understudied relationship between education and reconciliation and its potential for addressing and repairing the divisions of conflict. Each chapter contains a summary of the key points and issues within the chapter to enable easy navigation, key relevant and contemporary questions to encourage you to actively engage with the material and an annotated list of suggested further reading to support you to take your exploration further.
A companion website supports the text and provides updates and additional resources. This series presents an authoritative, coherent and focused collection of texts to introduce and promote the notion of education as a humanitarian response as a prime function of educational activity. The series takes a holistic interpretation of education, dealing not only with formal schooling and other systemic provisions in the mainstream, but rather with educational reality - teaching and learning in whatever form it comes at any age.
Contents
Series Editor's Preface Colin Brock Foreword Julia Paulson Introduction: Assuming and Imagining Education and Reconciliation Julia Paulson; 1. Young People, Conflict and the Implications for Education Jason Hart; 2. Reconciliation through Relationships among Teachers and Sub-Saharan African Families in the USA Sarah Dryden-Peterson; 3. Education and Reconciliation in Northern Ireland Alan Smith; 4. Understanding Responses to Post-War Education Reform in the Multiethnic District of Brcko, Bosnia-Herzegovina Briony Jones; 5. Beyond Reconciliation? Designing a Democratic Citizenship in Post Apartheid South Africa David Johnson; 6. Education as Cause or Cure? Conflict and Reconciliation in Peru Julia Paulson; 7. Balancing Local and International Actors in The Aftermath of Ethnic Conflict in Rwanda James Kearney Conclusion: Re- Imagining Education and Reconciliation Julia Paulson Bibliography Index.
