The Contested Role of Education in Conflict and Fragility (The World Council of Comparative Education Societies) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 9463000089 ISBN 13: 9789463000086

Publisher: Brill - Sense, 2015

Synopsis

This book brings together new thinking on education's complex and evolving role in conflict and fragility. The changing nature of conflict, from inter- to intra-state, and with shifting geopolitical power balances, demands a reconceptualization of where education is positioned. Claims that education on its own can be an agent of conflict transformation are disputed. Deliberate attempts at peace education are not without critics and controversies. This collection aims to generate new realism from empirical and reflective accounts in a variety of countries and political contexts, as well as provide innovative methodological approaches to the study of education and conflict. The particular distinctiveness of the volume is the emphasis on 'contested' - it includes the debates and disagreements on the many faces of education in conflict, as well as material on teaching controversial issues in fragile contexts. Crucially, it underscores how education itself exists within highly contested projects of state, nation and region building. As well as overview comparative chapters, the collection encompasses a range of specific contexts, geographically and educationally - Algeria, Canada, El Salvador, Israel, Kenya, Mexico, Morocco, Nepal, Tunisia, UK and US, with settings that include schools, higher education and refugee camps. Focuses range from analyses of education in historical conflicts to contemporary issues such as post Arab Spring transformations. Perennial concerns about religion, colonialism, protest, integration, cohesion, emergencies, globalization and narrative are given new slants. Yet in spite of the debates, a cross-cutting consensus emerges as the crucial need for critical pedagogy and critical theory if education is to make any mark at all on conflict and fragility.

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About the Author

Lynn Davies (1954) grew up in Moncton, NB, where her parents ran an independent bookstore, the Bookmark. After living for sixteen years in Nova Scotia, she moved to McLeod Hill, NB. Davies' first collection of poetry, "The Bridge That Carries the Road" (1999), was nominated for a Governor General's Award. Her children's stories have appeared in several anthologies.

Edition details

• Publisher: Brill - Sense
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9463000089
• ISBN 13: 9789463000086
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 274
• Editor: Gross Zehavit, Davies Lynn