Peace education from the grassroots

Historians often ignore the day-to-day struggles of ordinary people to improve their lives. They tend to focus on the accomplishments of illustrious leaders. Peace Education from the Grassroots tells the stories of concerned citizens, teachers, and grassroots peace activists who have struggled to co...

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Other Authors Harris, Ian M., 1943- (Editor)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bingley, U.K : Emerald Publishing Limited : Information Age Publishing, INC., [2013]
SeriesPeace education.
Subjects
Peace > Study and teaching.
Conflict management.
Political Science > Peace.
Political activism > Political engagement.
Peace studies and conflict resolution.
elektronické knihy
electronic books
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781806613250
DOI10.1108/978-1-62396-351-4
Physical Description1 online resource (xx, 322 pages) : illustrations

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Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Chapter 1. Jamaica's path to peace and love in society / Meagan Call-Cummings and Janilee Abrikian
  • Chapter 2. Peace education in teacher professional development in saltillo, Mexico / Sandra Lourdes Candel and Stephanie Knox-Cubbon
  • Chapter 3. Peace education in the grassroots in the philippines / Virginia Floresca-Cawagas, Loreta Navarro-Castro, Ofelia Durante, and Toh Swee-Hin
  • Chapter 4. Empowering the children of ex-combatants through soccer and peace education in an after-school program in el salvador / Kathryn S. Crawford and Jose Roberto Gil
  • Chapter 5. Peace education in flanders, Belgium: Grassroots organizations at work in schools / Geert Castryck, Nils Duquet, and Maarten Van Alstein
  • Chapter 6. Teaching forgiveness in Uganda: On the road to reconciliation / Brandon Fryman
  • Chapter 7. From the bottom up: Educating for peace and justice in america's nuclear age / Ian Harris and Charles F. Howlett
  • Chapter 8. How peace education has tried to overcome the division of korea into two nations: Practicing peace-reunification education in schools, soon-won kang
  • Chapter 9. Building peaceful schools in Canada, one school at a time: Peaceful schools international, robin neustaeter
  • Chapter 10. Peace education in Spain: Present and future / Antonio Otero Poleo, Ian Harris (translator)
  • Chapter 11. Peace education from the grassroots in northeast India / Leban Serto
  • Chapter 12. A case study of holocaust education in Germany / Miriam Shenkar and Zahava Szász-Stessel
  • Chapter 13. The international red cross educates the world about international humanitarian law / Cris Toffolo
  • Chapter 14. Peace education in life is treasure house in Japan / Kazuyo Yamane
  • A bibliography for peace education
  • About the contributors.

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