Ian M Harris
Biographic Data
| ID | 1088295 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ian M Harris |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ian M |
| FAMILY NAME | Harris |
| SIGNATURE | HARRIS I M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 121 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 23 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1980 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Peace Education Evaluation
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 the use of violence in conflict and for building cultures of positive peace hallmarked by just and equitable structures. Educators and organizations im…
Matthew AllenFox. Understanding Peace
Peace Education in a Postmodern World
This special issue of the Peabody Journal of Education provides a comprehensive overview of the latest developments in peace education reform. School reforms based upon principles of peace education have in common a belief in the power of peace to create a positive learning climate in schools and to address the problems of violence in the broader culture. A peace education strategy for improving school productivity rests upon three main assumptio…
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 counteract high levels of violence by teaching about the sources for violence and strategies for peace. The stories told here come from the grass roots …
Duck and cover’
This article will provide an historical analysis of the various trends within the field of peace education/peace studies during the beginning of the nuclear age. It will provide an overview of how peace education grew from noted grassroots organizations to school-based programs and in academic societies devoted to peace education and conflict resolution. The historical record of the past 50 years or so provides a progression of peace education/pe…
Conflict resolution and peace education
Kent D.Shifferd. From War to Peace
A Select Bibliography for Peace Education
Peace education is an umbrella term for education about problems of violence and strategies for peace. This bibliography provides references for books about the following aspects of peace education: nonviolence, peace, peace education, historical aspects of peace advocates, peace organizations, peace movements, and war and violence. The bibliography omits, e.g., multicultural education, international education/global studies, and human rights edu…
Testing the assertion that ‘local food is best’
Growing Foundations Through Community Education
During the past thirty years, while foundations of education programs have been shrinking on American campuses, faculty in the School of Education at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee created an undergraduate degree program in community education that has attracted older, nontraditional students. Using a curriculum that provides skills and understandings needed to improve urban communities and schools, the Department of Educational Policy and…
The Ideal of Peace
An essay review of The Invention of Peace, by Michael Howard, London, Profile Books, 2000, Oasis of Dreams: Teaching and Learning Peace in a Jewish-Palestinian Village in Israel, by Grace Feuerverger, New York, RoutledgeFalmer, 2001, and Peace Education: The Concept, Principles, and Practices around the World, edited by Gavriel Salomon and Baruch Nevo, Mahwah, NJ, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2002
Peace education theory
During this past century there has been growth in social concern about horrific forms of violence, like ecocide, genocide, modern warfare, ethnic hatred, racism, sexual abuse and domestic violence, and a corresponding growth in the field of peace education where educators, from early child care to adult, use their professional skills to warn fellow citizens about imminent dangers and advise them about paths to peace. This paper traces the evoluti…
Articles
Patterns of Paternity
This is a study of 250 young adults' perceptions of their father's parenting using a probability model. The sample was from an urban university and a rural university in the upper Midwest. The survey utilized Likert scales for a range of variables, including: physically present to physically absent, dangerous to safe, emotionally present to emotionally absent, etc. The survey also included open-ended questions for more qualitative information. Re…
The Ten Tenets of Male Spirituality
This paper summarizes a three-stage study of spiritual influences that play a formative role in male gender identities. During the first stage participants volunteered that spiritual beliefs played an important role in their male development. The second stage asked 100 men to define their particular spiritual beliefs. An item analysis of the responses came up with the ten tenets or beliefs: finding inner wisdom, searching for truth, speaking from…
Peace education in an urban school district in the United States
My kindergarten students at Sherman Multicultural Arts School in Milwaukee were dealing with the trauma of growing up in a violent society. Their personal encounters with violence were reflected daily in their journal dictations, class discussions and peer conversations. It was difficult for them to understand why Mom had been robbed, a bike had been stolen, an uncle was in jail. I wanted to engage them in an activity that would make them aware o…
Men as Standard Bearers
The responses of African American men to dominant norms of masculinity within the United States
The goals of peace education
Principles of Peace Pedagogy
Peace Education
Criteria for Evaluating School Desegregation in Milwaukee
Since 1976, the Milwaukee School District has been under a court order to desegregate its schools. The original ruling,1 handed down on January 19, 1976, by U. S. District Judge John Reynolds, required the school district to desegregate one-third of its schools for each of the school years 1977-78, 1978-79, 1979-80. The Milwaukee Public School Board appealed this court order all the way to the United States Supreme Court. A final out-of-court set…
College credits for previous learning experiences
Community Involvement in Desegregation
order to desegregate its schools. The School Board in this city of 600,000 has fought this order all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court, and finally in the spring of 1979 agreed to an out-of-court settlement which would require two-thirds of the 90,000 pupils in Milwaukee to attend desegregated schools. In the fall of 1978 and 1979 the School Board has met this requirement, and increased the percentage of pupils attending desegregated schools (a d…
Peace education theory
During this past century there has been growth in social concern about horrific forms of violence, like ecocide, genocide, modern warfare, ethnic hatred, racism, sexual abuse and domestic violence, and a corresponding growth in the field of peace education where educators, from early child care to adult, use their professional skills to warn fellow citizens about imminent dangers and advise them about paths to peace. This paper traces the evoluti…
The responses of African American men to dominant norms of masculinity within the United States
Peace education in an urban school district in the United States
My kindergarten students at Sherman Multicultural Arts School in Milwaukee were dealing with the trauma of growing up in a violent society. Their personal encounters with violence were reflected daily in their journal dictations, class discussions and peer conversations. It was difficult for them to understand why Mom had been robbed, a bike had been stolen, an uncle was in jail. I wanted to engage them in an activity that would make them aware o…
The goals of peace education
Duck and cover’
This article will provide an historical analysis of the various trends within the field of peace education/peace studies during the beginning of the nuclear age. It will provide an overview of how peace education grew from noted grassroots organizations to school-based programs and in academic societies devoted to peace education and conflict resolution. The historical record of the past 50 years or so provides a progression of peace education/pe…
Growing Foundations Through Community Education
During the past thirty years, while foundations of education programs have been shrinking on American campuses, faculty in the School of Education at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee created an undergraduate degree program in community education that has attracted older, nontraditional students. Using a curriculum that provides skills and understandings needed to improve urban communities and schools, the Department of Educational Policy and…
The Ten Tenets of Male Spirituality
This paper summarizes a three-stage study of spiritual influences that play a formative role in male gender identities. During the first stage participants volunteered that spiritual beliefs played an important role in their male development. The second stage asked 100 men to define their particular spiritual beliefs. An item analysis of the responses came up with the ten tenets or beliefs: finding inner wisdom, searching for truth, speaking from…
Men as Standard Bearers
Criteria for Evaluating School Desegregation in Milwaukee
Since 1976, the Milwaukee School District has been under a court order to desegregate its schools. The original ruling,1 handed down on January 19, 1976, by U. S. District Judge John Reynolds, required the school district to desegregate one-third of its schools for each of the school years 1977-78, 1978-79, 1979-80. The Milwaukee Public School Board appealed this court order all the way to the United States Supreme Court. A final out-of-court set…
College credits for previous learning experiences
Community Involvement in Desegregation
order to desegregate its schools. The School Board in this city of 600,000 has fought this order all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court, and finally in the spring of 1979 agreed to an out-of-court settlement which would require two-thirds of the 90,000 pupils in Milwaukee to attend desegregated schools. In the fall of 1978 and 1979 the School Board has met this requirement, and increased the percentage of pupils attending desegregated schools (a d…
College credits for previous learning experiences
Criteria for Evaluating School Desegregation in Milwaukee
Since 1976, the Milwaukee School District has been under a court order to desegregate its schools. The original ruling,1 handed down on January 19, 1976, by U. S. District Judge John Reynolds, required the school district to desegregate one-third of its schools for each of the school years 1977-78, 1978-79, 1979-80. The Milwaukee Public School Board appealed this court order all the way to the United States Supreme Court. A final out-of-court set…
The goals of peace education
Principles of Peace Pedagogy
Peace Education
Men as Standard Bearers
The responses of African American men to dominant norms of masculinity within the United States
Peace education in an urban school district in the United States
My kindergarten students at Sherman Multicultural Arts School in Milwaukee were dealing with the trauma of growing up in a violent society. Their personal encounters with violence were reflected daily in their journal dictations, class discussions and peer conversations. It was difficult for them to understand why Mom had been robbed, a bike had been stolen, an uncle was in jail. I wanted to engage them in an activity that would make them aware o…
The Ten Tenets of Male Spirituality
This paper summarizes a three-stage study of spiritual influences that play a formative role in male gender identities. During the first stage participants volunteered that spiritual beliefs played an important role in their male development. The second stage asked 100 men to define their particular spiritual beliefs. An item analysis of the responses came up with the ten tenets or beliefs: finding inner wisdom, searching for truth, speaking from…
Patterns of Paternity
This is a study of 250 young adults' perceptions of their father's parenting using a probability model. The sample was from an urban university and a rural university in the upper Midwest. The survey utilized Likert scales for a range of variables, including: physically present to physically absent, dangerous to safe, emotionally present to emotionally absent, etc. The survey also included open-ended questions for more qualitative information. Re…
Articles
The Ideal of Peace
An essay review of The Invention of Peace, by Michael Howard, London, Profile Books, 2000, Oasis of Dreams: Teaching and Learning Peace in a Jewish-Palestinian Village in Israel, by Grace Feuerverger, New York, RoutledgeFalmer, 2001, and Peace Education: The Concept, Principles, and Practices around the World, edited by Gavriel Salomon and Baruch Nevo, Mahwah, NJ, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2002
Peace education theory
During this past century there has been growth in social concern about horrific forms of violence, like ecocide, genocide, modern warfare, ethnic hatred, racism, sexual abuse and domestic violence, and a corresponding growth in the field of peace education where educators, from early child care to adult, use their professional skills to warn fellow citizens about imminent dangers and advise them about paths to peace. This paper traces the evoluti…
Growing Foundations Through Community Education
During the past thirty years, while foundations of education programs have been shrinking on American campuses, faculty in the School of Education at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee created an undergraduate degree program in community education that has attracted older, nontraditional students. Using a curriculum that provides skills and understandings needed to improve urban communities and schools, the Department of Educational Policy and…
Testing the assertion that ‘local food is best’
A Select Bibliography for Peace Education
Peace education is an umbrella term for education about problems of violence and strategies for peace. This bibliography provides references for books about the following aspects of peace education: nonviolence, peace, peace education, historical aspects of peace advocates, peace organizations, peace movements, and war and violence. The bibliography omits, e.g., multicultural education, international education/global studies, and human rights edu…
Peace Education in a Postmodern World
This special issue of the Peabody Journal of Education provides a comprehensive overview of the latest developments in peace education reform. School reforms based upon principles of peace education have in common a belief in the power of peace to create a positive learning climate in schools and to address the problems of violence in the broader culture. A peace education strategy for improving school productivity rests upon three main assumptio…
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 counteract high levels of violence by teaching about the sources for violence and strategies for peace. The stories told here come from the grass roots …
Duck and cover’
This article will provide an historical analysis of the various trends within the field of peace education/peace studies during the beginning of the nuclear age. It will provide an overview of how peace education grew from noted grassroots organizations to school-based programs and in academic societies devoted to peace education and conflict resolution. The historical record of the past 50 years or so provides a progression of peace education/pe…
Conflict resolution and peace education
Kent D.Shifferd. From War to Peace
Peace Education Evaluation
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 the use of violence in conflict and for building cultures of positive peace hallmarked by just and equitable structures. Educators and organizations im…
Matthew AllenFox. Understanding Peace
Political science (17 works) · Sociology (16 works) · Peace and Human Rights Education (12 works) · Psychology (10 works) · Law (8 works) · Pedagogy (8 works) · Values and Moral Education (6 works) · Mathematics education (5 works) · Peace Education (5 works) · Public Administration (5 works)