Understanding peace cultures

Understanding Peace Cultures is exceptionally practical as well as theoretically grounded. As Elise Boulding tells us, culture consists of the shared values, ideas, practices, and artifacts of a group united by a common history. Rebecca Oxford explains that peace cultures are cultures, large or smal...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors Oxford, Rebecca L. (Editor)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bingley, U.K : Emerald Publishing Limited : Information Age Publishing Inc., [2014]
SeriesPeace education.
Subjects
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781806612819
DOI10.1108/978-1-62396-507-5
Physical Description1 online resource (xv, 344 pages)

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Table of Contents:
  • List of figures
  • List of tables
  • Acknowledgments
  • Part a: Looking at peace cultures
  • Chapter 2. Using this book to discover peace cultures / Rebecca L. Oxford
  • Chapter 3. Better than a thousand hollow words: Speaking the language of peace across contexts and cultures / Rebecca L. Oxford and Rebecca M. Boggs
  • Part b: Peace education: Creating small and large peace cultures
  • Chapter 4. Womanist and critical race theory for peacemaking in multilingual, multicultural classrooms / Shelley D. Wong and Rachel A. Grant
  • Chapter 5. The national peace essay context: An exploration in peacebuilding through transformative peace education / Jiemin (Tina) Wei
  • Chapter 6. Peace language for abraham's children: A peace education curriculum for middle eastern youth based on the christian bible / Rui Ma
  • Chapter 7. A teacher's journey: Integrating peace education into language classes / Yingji Wang
  • Part c: Creating peace cultures: Spiritual, philosophical, linguistic, and literary insights
  • Chapter 8. Creating peace, speaking interbeing: A buddhist perspective / Sister Jewel (Chan Chau Nghiem)
  • Chapter 9. Islamic wisdom for peace / Dian Nasrah Marissa, Rebecca L. Oxford, J. Edward Dotherow IV, and Lauren Mackenzie
  • Chapter 10. Chinese language, philosophy, and wisdom of peace / Yingji Wang, Ai Zhang, Ruifang Xu, and Jing Lin
  • Chapter 11. Peace talk: Learning peace through spiritual semantics / Lois P. Liggett
  • Chapter 12. Peace lessons in multicultural literature for children / Rebecca L. Oxford, Rebecca M. Boggs, Jennifer D. Turner, Rui Ma, and Chien-Yu Lin
  • Part d: Performing art for peace: Cultural understandings for peace educators
  • Chapter 13. African performing art: Language of social connectivity, reconstruction, and harmony / John A. Grayzel
  • Chapter 14. Making peace with gangsta rap: Themes and paradoxes / Charles C. Blake III, Nathanael J. Rudolph, Rebecca L. Oxford, and Rebecca M. Boggs
  • Part e: Social and political perspectives: Challenges for peace educators and peacebuilders
  • Chapter 15. Sunset over jerusalem / Lawrence N. Berlin
  • Chapter 16. Both sides now: Reflections on korea / Carol Griffiths.