ABSTRACT
This book explores the interdisciplinary arena of peace studies and shows how the field has evolved and continues to grow and change. Dedicated to bringing students face to face with the grave injustices and violence in the contemporary world, it equips them with the tools to work for transformational change. Informed by an intersectional perspective, scholar-activist authors probe contested terrain, including teaching social justice from a place of privilege, decolonializing pedagogies, and community organizing. Games and simulations, storytelling, experiential integrated learning, and other pedagogical approaches are employed to encourage critical thinking, empathy, optimism, and activism.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|2 pages
Intersectional Identities and Peace and Justice Studies
chapter 2|14 pages
The Tyranny of Good Intentions
part II|2 pages
Experiential Learning in Peace and Justice Studies
chapter 5|14 pages
Simulating Reality
chapter 6|11 pages
Learning Justice in the Streets
part III|2 pages
The Power of Story in the Peace and Justice Studies Classroom
chapter 7|9 pages
If These are Our Values, then What is Our Practice?
part IV|2 pages
Pedagogies of Hope and Resistance