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Record Nr.

UNINA9910460245203321

Titolo

Handbook on peace education / / edited by Gavriel Salomon and Edward Cairns

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Psychology Press, , 2010

ISBN

1-283-10525-X

9786613105257

1-136-87452-6

0-203-83799-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (335 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

CairnsEd

SalomonGavriel

Disciplina

303.6/6071

Soggetti

Peace - Study and teaching

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Peace education : setting the scene / Gavriel Salomon and Ed Cairns -- History of peace education / Ian Harris -- Peace education in societies involved in intractable conflicts : goals, conditions, and directions / Daniel Bar-Tal, Yigal Rosen, and Rafi Nets-Zehngut -- Educational sciences and peace education : mainstreaming peace education into (Western) academia? / Werner Wintersteiner -- What does peace psychology have to offer peace education? Five psychologically informed propositions / Daniel J. Christie and Richard V. Wagner -- The social psychology of intergroup relations / Nicole Tausch, Katharina Schmid, and Miles Hewstone -- Intergroup contact : implications for peace education / Eric W. Mania ... [et al.] -- Contributions of developmental psychology to peace education / Louis Oppenheimer -- Peace education and political science / Marc Howard Ross -- The contributions of communication and media studies to peace education / Donald Ellis and Yael Warshel -- Peace and morality : two children of the same parents / Fritz Oser, Christine Riegel, and Sibylle Steinmann -- Philosophy of peace education in a postmetaphysical era / Ilan Gur-Ze'ev -- Teaching about culture of peace as an approach to peace



education / Joseph de Rivera -- Storytelling and multiple narratives in conflict situations : from the TRT group in the German-Jewish context to the dual-narrative approach of PRIME / Dan Bar-On -- The contribution of history teaching to peace building / Alan McCully -- Peace education in the classroom : creating effective peace education programs / David W. Johnson and Roger T. Johnson -- Building a shared future from a divided past : promoting peace through education in Northern Ireland / Tony Gallagher -- Unity-based peace education : education for peace program in Bosnia and Herzegovina : a chronological case study / H.B. Danesh -- Understanding the roots and impact of violence and psychological recovery as avenues to reconciliation after mass violence and intractable conflict : applications to national leaders, journalists, community groups, public education through radio, and children / Ervin Staub, Laurie Anne Pearlman, and Rezarta Bilali -- Peace education in regions of tranquillity / Ilse Hakvoort -- Educating for peace through planned encounters between Jews and Arabs in Israel : a reappraisal of effectiveness / Ifat Maoz -- Open-ended questions / Gavriel Salomon and Ed Cairns.

Sommario/riassunto

This handbook encompasses a range of disciplines that underlie the field of peace education and provides the rationales for the ways it is actually carried out . The discipline is a composite of contributions from a variety of disciplines ranging from social psychology to philosophy and from communication to political science. That is, peace education is an applied subject which is practiced in differing ways, but must always be firmly based on a range of established empirical disciplines.The volume is structured around contributions from expert scholars in various fields that