ABSTRACT

Learning is not a one-way process, especially if it is to be culturally creative and empowering rather than disempowering. As parents and teachers, we have much to learn from our children. If, as argued in the previous chapters, our schools and other educational organisations are potentially significant sites for resisting fatalistic fallacies about ‘perpetual trends’ in violence and for problematising violence-saturated media images of things to come, it is important that we actually listen empathetically to our children’s voices on the future.