Comprehensive Peace Education
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Betty A. Reardon's groundbreaking work, originally authored in 1988, provides one of the first and clearest articulations of the field of peace education in theory and practice. Through reflection on her own experiences, Reardon assesses the state of peace education and offers a new comprehensive approach. She addresses the need to help educators and citizens alike understand what peace education is, why it is needed, and how it is and should be pursued. She investigates the root causes of the violent conditions facing society so that we can better understand how education can be used to interrupt the cycles of violence and create the conditions for sustainable peace and justice. Comprehensive peace education, for the author, takes place at every level, and in every subject area, of both formal and non-formal education. In this special 2021 Edition, Reardon provides a new, reflective introduction on the emerging needs and challenges to the field for the 21st century. Formal and non-formal educators, theorists, students and activists will find practical and transformative wisdom immediately applicable to diverse conditions and contexts in Comprehensive Peace Education.
Betty A. Reardon is acknowledged around the world as one of the founders of the field of peace education. She has been extensively involved in the international peace education movement and has been published widely in the field. She is a co-founder of both the International Institute on Peace Education and the Global Campaign for Peace Education.
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Acknowledgments
Foreword by Andria Wisler
Introduction (2021)
- Blindsided by Two Years of Turmoil, Inspirited by Two Years of Hope: A 2021 Preamble to a 2019 Introduction
- Introduction: Toward Innovative Perspectives on Planetary Imperatives (2019)
Introduction (1988)
Chapter 1: Personal Perspectives and General Approaches
- World Order Studies: A Mode of Inquiry
- The Peace Education Commission: Transnational Efforts
- The Peace Education Network: American Efforts
- The Feminist Movement: Human Efforts
Chapter 2: Education for Negative Peace
- Concepts of Negative Peace: Emphasis on Arms Races, War, and Violent Conflict
- Educational Assumptions and Approaches
- Current Purposes and Goals of Education for Negative Peace
- Political Issues: The Problem of Indoctrination
Chapter 3: Education for Positive Peace
- Global Justice: The Central Concept of Positive Peace
- Curricular Antecedents of Education for Positive Peace
- Notions of Positive Peace
- Positive Peace: Approaches and Concerns
- Topical Themes and Curricular Titles
Chapter 4: Peace Knowledge: Content and Context
- Sources of Peace Knowledge
- A World Core Curriculum: A Truly Comprehensive Approach
- A Conceptual Framework: The University for Peace Curriculum Outline
- Fleshing Out the Outline: The Juniata Process
- The Notion of Paradigm Shift: A Transformational Context
Chapter 5: The Fundamental Purposes of a Pedagogy of Peace
- The Centrality of Wholeness, Integrity, Complexity, and Change
- Impediments to Transformation
- Peacemaking Capacities: Generalized Learning Purposes
- Teaching Toward the Development of Peacemaking Capacities
- Transformational Approaches to Learning
Chapter 6: Toward Comprehensive Peace Education
- The Dimensions of Comprehensive Peace Education
- The Values and Qualities of Comprehensive Peace Education
- Spheres of Capacity Development
- Emerging Opportunities: Convergence of the Institutional and the Transformational
Appendix: Significant Works in the Development of the Pedagogy of Peace
- Significant Works in the Development of the Pedagogy of Peace (from the original 1988 edition as compiled and annotated by Betty Reardon)
- Significant Works in the Development of the Pedagogy of Peace (1988-2020)
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