Harvesting Social Change

A peace education program in three acts

Datos Bibliográficos

ID12876255
AutoresColette N Cann (0009-0003-4826-2835, Vassar College, autor de correspondencia)
Año2012
Volumen9
Número3
Páginas211-223
Fecha de publicación2012-04-23
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaJournal of Peace Education (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1740-0201 • E-ISSN: 1740-021X
EditorialTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/17400201.2012.668493
OpenAlexW2013959183
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas2
Referencias citadas13

This article narrates the story of how a peace education program, over the course of a year, shifts from a more traditional form of peace education as conflict resolution skill building to a critical form of peace education. The path of this journey was neither straight nor direct; rather it meandered through an iteration of itself that actually produced another form of violence among its educators. Thus, in this one-case study, three different forms of peace education are observed – a traditional form, an ‘unpeaceable’ form, and a critical form. Building on Noddings’ notions of care, Freire’s notion of critical consciousness and Bajaj’s and Brantmeier’s complementing notions of a critical peace education, the author argues that it is not until the program identifies a space where youth and the facilitator can be vulnerable in meaningful dialog, that the program becomes critical. As the data from this activist research project show, it is in these dialogs that youth have the opportunity to make sense of the direct and structural violence inflicted on them and come to a critical consciousness that makes possible responsible social action

Conflict resolution · Consciousness · Critical consciousness · Critical thinking · Dialog box · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Facilitator · Peace Education · Pedagogy · Social science · Sociology · Transformative learning · Critical and Liberation Pedagogy · Indian History and Philosophy · Peace and Human Rights Education · Psychology · Social Psychology