Peace education evaluation : learning from experience and exploring prospects

Practice and research of peace education has grown in the recent years as shown by a steadily increasing number of publications, programs, events, and funding mechanisms. The oft-cited point of departure for the peace education community is the belief in education as a valuable tool for decreasing t...

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Other Authors Del Felice, Celina (Editor), Karako, Aaron (Editor), Wisler, Andria (Editor)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bingley, U.K. : Emerald Publishing Limited : Information Age Publishing, Inc., 2015.
SeriesPeace education.
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Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781806611317
DOI10.1108/978-1-62396-975-2
Physical Description1 online resource (xxii, 329 pages)

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Table of Contents:
  • Peaceableness as raison d'être, process, and evaluation / Hakim Mohandas, Amani Williams
  • Towards a more complex evaluation of peace education : Peace education, the evaluation business, and the need for empowering evaluation / Werner Wintersteiner
  • Infusing cultural responsiveness into the evaluation of peace education programs / Rodney K. Hopson and Helga Stokes
  • Naming the space : Evaluating language in peace education through reflective practice / Cheryl Woelk
  • Bridging restorative practices and group therapy : New evaluative measures for school groups / Christina Procter and Erin Dunlevy
  • From risk to resilience : Understanding and preventing bullying and bias / Roberta A. Heydenberk and Warren R. Heydenberk
  • Evaluating a project-based peace education course in Turkey : The civic involvement projects / Antonia Mandry
  • Peace education in higher education : Using authentic assessment practices to build peace / Rajashree Srinivasan
  • Narrative method for evaluation of students' transformative learning in a peace and conflict resolution program / Zulfi ya Tursunova
  • Education for peace in bosnia and herzegovina : How do we know it is working? / H.B. Danesh
  • Evaluating seeds of peace : Assessing long-term impact in volatile context / Ned Lazarus
  • The olive tree initiative : Lessons learned about peace education through experiential learning / Daniel Wehrenfennig, Daniel Brunstetter, and Johanna Solomon
  • How do we know we are building peace? : A reflection on what is good youth peace monitoring and evaluation / Meghann Villanueva, Lillian Solheim, Imke van der Velde, and Eefje van Esch
  • Evaluating peace education programs: Quantifying attitudinal and behavioral change : Lessons learned from the youth theater for peace programs / Susan Armitage
  • The role of donors in post-conflict reconciliation processes : Balancing material and behavioral dimensions / Ruerd Ruben
  • Assessing peace education at the national level : Challenges and possibilities / Cecile Barbeito Thonon and Johanna Ospina
  • Re-conceptualizing impact : Assessing peace education through a social movement lens / Karen Ross
  • Pedagogy of addressivity : Peace education as evaluation / Naghmeh Yazdanpanah
  • Imagine there is no peace education : An exploration in counterfactual analyses / Thomas de Hoop and Annette N. Brown
  • Evaluation of peace education training programs : Promoting consistency between teaching and content / Maria Lucia Uribe Torres.