| Description |
1 online resource (xxxii, 213 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Peace Education |
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Peace education.
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| Contents |
Think, Care, Act -- Teaching for a Peaceful Future -- A volume in -- Peace Education -- Series Editors: Ian Harris, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee -- Edward J. Brantmeier, Colorado State University -- Jing Lin, University of Maryland -- CONTENTS -- Part I: Think! -- 1. Critical Thinking from September Through June 3 -- 2. Media Literacy and Current Events: Examining 9-11 and Presidential Elections 21 -- 3. Using Critical Imagination: The History Utopia Project and The Giver Utopia Project 37 -- Part II: Care! |
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4. Creating the A-Team: Building the School-Wide Safety Net of Care for Students, Teachers, and Families 535. Reading Multicultural, Historical, and Controversial Literature to Enhance Empathy 65 -- 6. Creating a Caring Classroom and Global Community with Poetry and Prose 83 -- Part III: Act! -- 7. Citizenship Action Projects in History Class 107 -- 8. Student Council Initiatives in Middle School 121 -- 9. Empowering Elective Courses: Debate, Model UN, PeaceJam 139 -- Peace Education -- Think, Care, Act -- Teaching for a Peaceful Future -- by |
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Susan Gelber Cannon Episcopal AcademyInformation Age Publishing, Inc. -- Charlotte, North Carolina â€Ø www.infoagepub.com -- Foreword -- Ian Harris -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS AND HEARTFELT THANKS -- Figure 1. Private First Class Fred Gelber, 1945, Italy. -- Figures 2 and 3. Human costs of war. J. Kadir Cannonâ€?s Anguished Art series depicts horror of war for soldiers and civilians. -- introduction -- Teaching Students to Think, Care, and Act for a Peaceful Future -- “I had a modest goal when I became a teacher â€? I wanted to change the world.â€? |
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€?Howard Zinn (in Ellis & Mueller, 2004: Howard Zinn�You Can�t be Neutral on a Moving Train)“A culture of peace will be achieved when citizens of the world understand global problems; have the skills to resolve conflict constructively; know and live by international standards of human rights, gender and racial equality; appreciate cultura ... -- �Global Campaign for Peace Education, 1999 -- “War is hell. I don�t wish it on my best friends or my worst enemy. May my children, and my grandchildren, and my great-grandchildren be spared from it, forever. Amen.� |
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€?Private First Class Fred Gelber (Personal interview, November 23, 2000)LESSONS FROM MY FATHER -- The Secret World of War -- BUILDING A CULTURE OF PEACE -- Think, Care, Act -- Envisioning a Culture of Peace -- PEACE EDUCATION AS AN UMBRELLA CONCEPT -- Theoretical Underpinnings -- A Moral Imperative -- Negative and Positive Concepts of Peace -- Teaching Positive Peace -- Imagining What Might Be -- The Unseen Harvest -- EMPOWERING ADOLESCENTS -- Adolescent Idealism -- Hypotheses for Teaching for Peace |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Peace -- Study and teaching
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Multicultural education.
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Education -- Social aspects
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Peace.
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Education -- Social aspects
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Multicultural education
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Peace -- Study and teaching
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2011020336 |
| ISBN |
1617354287 |
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9781617354281 |
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