ABSTRACT

This edited collection brings together a series of conceptual explorations and practical case studies to illuminate a developing innovative praxis of transdisciplinary peace and education.

Drawing on the work of the Cambridge Peace and Education Research Group as well as international scholars, this book responds to calls for transdisciplinary peace and education praxis and presents innovative examples of peace and education research practices, peace interventions in educational settings, and alternative ontologies in peace and education work. Foregrounding the concept of ‘second-order reflexivity’, the book prioritises the lived experiences and viewpoints of struggling populations regarding the worth of ‘peace’ as grounded within their contexts. Ultimately, this book showcases how the practices of peace education and research can challenge the binaries of modern and postmodern approaches and provide examples of holistic transdisciplinary approaches that embrace complexity and criticality.

Contributing new knowledge to peace and education, this volume will be of great interest to academics, post-graduate students and researchers in the field of peace education, peace studies and development studies.

The Introduction of this book is available for free in PDF format as Open Access from the individual product page at www.taylorfrancis.com. It has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license. Funded by the Gates Foundation.

The Afterword of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at https://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International license. Funded by the Georg-Eckert-Institute.

chapter |14 pages

New Lenses

An Introduction to Innovations in Peace and Education Praxis

part 1|16 pages

Foregrounding Peace and Education

chapter 1|14 pages

Peace as Real and Ideal

part 2|51 pages

Peace Research

chapter 2|15 pages

Values and the Possibilities for Minimising Epistemic Injustice in International Collaborations

Reflections on bell hooks' Ethics of Love from the Education, Justice and Memory Network (EdJAM)

chapter 3|17 pages

Building Cultures of Compassion for Children, Teachers and Families

A Critical and Context-Sensitive Lens

chapter 4|17 pages

Reflective Research in Peace Education

Theory and Practice

part 3|62 pages

Peace Praxis in Educational Settings

chapter 6|17 pages

A Conversation on Becoming Agents for Transformation in Higher Education

Co-Creating a Regenerative Academic Developmental Learning Space

chapter 7|30 pages

Towards post/critical peace education?

A meditation-in-progress

part 4|51 pages

Alternative Epistemologies and Ontologies for Peace

chapter 8|16 pages

Diffracting Our Mediation

Onto-Epistemological Insights from Our In-between Spaces about Being

chapter 9|16 pages

Sankofa

Re-Imagining Peacebuilding through Education in Ghana

chapter |14 pages

Afterword

Reflections on a Post/Critical Peace Education