ABSTRACT
What is the meaning of peace, why should we study it, and how should we achieve it? Although there are an increasing number of manuscripts, curricula and initiatives that grapple with some strand of peace education, there is, nonetheless, a dearth of critical, cross-disciplinary, international projects/books that examine peace education in conjunction with war and conflict. Within this volume, the authors contend that war/military conflict/violence are not a nebulous, far-away, mysterious venture; rather, they argue that we are all, collectively, involved in perpetrating and perpetuating militarization/conflict/violence inside and outside of our own social circles. Therefore, education about and against war can be as liberating as it is necessary. If war equates killing, can our schools avoid engaging in the examination of what war is all about? If education is not about peace, then is it about war? Can a society have education that willfully avoids considering peace as its central objective? Can a democracy exist if pivotal notions of war and peace are not understood, practiced, advocated and ensconced in public debate? These questions, according to Carr and Porfilio and the contributors they have assembled, merit a critical and extensive reflection. This book seeks to provide a range of epistemological, policy, pedagogical, curriculum and institutional analyses aimed at facilitating meaningful engagement toward a more robust and critical examination of the role that schools play (and can play) in framing war, militarization and armed conflict and, significantly, the connection to peace.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter 1|37 pages
Introduction
part I|59 pages
Theorizing Peace, War and Peace
chapter 4|15 pages
“why Do Students Call Me ‘the War Teacher'?”
chapter 5|14 pages
Reexamining the Role of Intellectuals in Times of War Through the Lens of Edward Said's Work
part II|31 pages
Scanning the War in Our Daily (and Educational) Lives
chapter 7|15 pages
The Way of the Soldier— Jarheads and Hurt Lockers
part III|50 pages
The Curriculum of War and Peace
chapter 8|15 pages
Moving from a Curriculum of Compliance to a Curriculum of Possibility
chapter 9|15 pages
The Military-Industrial-University Complex and Social Science
part IV|43 pages
Internationalizing Peace and the Trauma of War and Conflict
chapter 11|14 pages
Who Owns Education for Peace and for War?
chapter 12|12 pages
Open the Doors, Paint the Walls, and Ignore the Bells
chapter 13|15 pages
Swimming against the Current
part V|46 pages
Resisting the Militarization of Education