COURSE TITLE: Peace Education COURSE NUMBER: ED POL 520‑101

CREDITS: 3 undergraduate or graduate

INSTRUCTOR: Dr. Ian Harris E-MAIL: imh@uwm.edu

OFFICE HOURS: Monday, 1:00‑4:00 P.M.

Wednesday 2:00-4:00; and by appointment

OFFICE: Enderis 553 OFFICE PHONE: (414) 229‑2326

PLACE: Friends Meeting House, 3224 N. Gordon Place

TIME: Friday: 6:00‑9:30 p.m.

Saturday 9:00‑5:00 p.m.

DATES: Sept. 22-23; Oct. 13-14; Nov. 3-Nov.4; Nov. 17-18, 2006

DESCRIPTION:

This course will discuss how education and community education can address the threats of violence, and prepares students to teach about peace, nonviolence, and conflict resolution.

This course is offered as part of a certificate in peace studies program at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. If you would like more information about this program, please ask the instructor.

OBJECTIVES:

To explore the role of violence in our lives and the lives of others

To consider the effect of violence upon educational processes

To examine how peace education can help deal with violence

To provide examples of conflict resolution activities and curricular ideas

REQUIREMENTS:

Students will be expected to attend all sessions and be on time to class. Because of the concentrated hours or this course, students can only miss the equivalent of one weekend, e.g. a Friday session and a Saturday session. Students who miss more than that are in danger of failing. If some emergency occurs requiring a student to miss more, extra credit work must be done to make up for this time. Students who miss one whole weekend or more must make arrangements with the instructor for extra assignments to make up for the time missed.

Classes will be based upon a seminar format. Participation is an important part of this course. Students will be expected to read all the assignments in a timely manner; take part in all class discussions; reflect understandings from readings; receive alternative perspectives in a constructive, professional, and respectful manner; listen well to the comments of others; share and negotiate meaning; ask questions for understanding; and contribute to the growth of others.

All students taking this course for credit will be required to read two books, take one exam and write two papers.

Books:

(1) Joan Burstyn, Geoff Bender, Ronnie Casella, Howard Gordon, Domingo Guerra, Kristen Luschen, Rebecca Stevens and Kimberly Williams. Preventing Violence in Schools: A Challenge to American Democracy (Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, 2001).

Read part one by October 13, 2006

Read part two by November 3, 2006

(2) Peace Education by Ian Harris and Mary Lee Morrison (Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co., 2003)

Read by November 17, 2006

Papers:

(1) The first paper, due on November 27, 2006, should discuss the question, "How are teachers promoting peace education in today’s world, and what are the obstacles they face?" For this paper students will be expected to read Peace Education. This paper should describe what peace education attempts to do by making references to this book, discuss whether these activities make the world more peaceful, and evaluate their strengths and weaknesses.

(2) The second paper, due on December 11, 2006, will be a curriculum on peace studies for the age level that students are working with, e.g., young children, teenagers, or adults. This paper can be a group project.

Exam:

Students will be required on November 4, 2006 to take an exam on the assigned reading, Preventing Violence in Schools: A Challenge to American Democracy. This will be an essay exam. You will be required to choose which topics to cover out of seven questions.

Assignment for Graduate Students:

All graduate students will have to complete the above assignments and an extra assignment for students taking this course for graduate credit. They can either (a) do a peace education project during the semester and write up the results of this project in a paper; or (b) do an analysis of Peace Education: The Concept, Principles, and Practices around the World by Salomon and Nevo (Norwood, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, 2004) or Peacebilding for Adolescents: Strategies for Community Leaders and Educators by Ian Harris and Linda Forcey (London: Taylor & Francis, 1999), or Theory into Practice, Volume 44, Number 4, Fall 2005, special edition on Peace Education, or choose another book on peace education from the bibliography and do a review of that book, relating the content of the book to major themes in the course.

Participation by Students with Disabilities

If you need special accommodations in order to meet any of the requirements of this course, please contact the instructor as soon as possible.

Accommodation for Religious Observances

Students will be allowed to complete examinations or other requirements that are missed because of a religious observance.

Academic Misconduct

The University has a responsibility to promote academic honesty and integrity and to develop procedures to deal effectively with instances of academic dishonesty. Students are responsible for the honest completion and representation of their work, for the appropriate citation of sources, and for respect of others' academic endeavors.

Grade Appeal Procedures

A student may appeal a grade on the grounds that it based on a capricious or arbitrary decision of the course instructor. Such an appeal shall follow the established procedures adopted by the department, college, or school in which the course resides. These procedures are available in writing from the respective department chairperson or the Academic Dean of the College/School.

Sexual Harassment

Sexual harassment is reprehensible and will not be tolerated by the University. and threatens the careers, educational experience, and well-being of students, faculty, and staff. The University will not tolerate behavior between or among members of the University community which creates an unacceptable working environment.

Incompletes

A notation of "incomplete" may be given in lieu of a final grade to a student who has completed course assignments successfully until the end of a semester but who, because of illness or other unusual and substantiated cause beyond the student's control, has been unable to complete the final paper. An incomplete is not given unless you prove to the instructor that you were prevented from completing course requirements for just cause as indicated above.

Instructional Activities:

Classes will be held in a seminar format with the text providing background information. The instructor will ask leading questions. Students are to come to class with discussion questions and be prepared to share insights into the texts.

Additional Topics:

Cell Phones: Please do not disrupt class with cell phone usage. As a courtesy to the class and instructor, please turn off phones and refrain from using cell phones, text messaging, etc while class is in session.

Web-based reference material: Please remember to cite material you have downloaded from the internet in order to complete class assignments.

GRADES

Grades for undergraduate students will be 1/4 for each paper, ¼ for the exam, and 1/4 class discussion.

Grades for graduate students will be determined on the following basis: 1/5 for each paper, 1/5 for the exam, and 1/5 for class discussion.

RECOMMENDED TEXTS:

Conflict Resolution

E. Franklin Dukes, Marina Piscolish, and John Stephens. Reaching for Higher Ground in Conflict Resolution (San Francisco, Jossey-Bass, 2000).

Roger Fisher and William Ury. Getting to Yes (New York: Penguin, 1981).

Roger Fisher, Elizabeth Kopelman, and Andrea Schneider. Beyond Machiavelli (Harvard University Press, 1994).

Douglas Fry and Kaj Bjorkqvist . Cultural Variation in Conflict Resolution (Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, 1997).

Ralph Johnson. Negotiation Basics: Concepts Skills, and Exercises (Newbury Park, CA: Sage Publishing, 1993).

Johnson, David, and Johnson, Roger. Reducing School Violence Through Conflict Resolution (Fairfax, VA: Association for Supervision and Curriculum Department, 1995).

Kriedler, William J. Creative Conflict Resolution: More than 200 Activities for Keeping Peace in the Classroom (Glenview, IL: Scott, Foresman and Co., 1984).

Mark Umbreit, Mediating Interpersonal Conflicts: A Pathway to Peace West Concord, MN: (CPI Publishing, 1995).

William Ury. Getting to Peace: Transforming Conflict at Home, at Work, and in the World (New York: Viking, 1999)

Dudley Weeks. The Eight Essential Steps to Conflict Resolution(Los Angeles, CA: Jeremy Tarcher, Inc., 1992)

Conflict Resolution Education:

Ronnie Casella At Zero Tolerance (New York: Peter Lang, 2004)

Ronnie Casella “Being Down”: Challenging Violence in Urban Schools (New York: Teachers College Press, 2001).

D. Crawford and R. Bodine. Conflict Resolution Education Guide to Implementing Programs in Schools, Youth Serving Organizations, and Community and Juvenile Justice Settings. (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of Justice, 1996)

Cohen, R. The School Mediator’s Field Guide (Watertown, MA: School Mediation Associates, 1999)

Delbert Elliot, Beatrix Hamburg and Kirk Williams. Violence in American Schools (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999).

DiGuilio, Robert. Educate, Medicate, or Litigate: What Teachers, Parents, and Administrators Must Do about Student Behavior (Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin Press, 2001)

Fitzell, Susan. Free the Children! Conflict Resolution Education for Strong, Peaceful Minds. (Philadelphia, PA: New Society Publishers, 1998).

K. Girard and S.J. Koch. Conflict Resolution in Schools: A Manual for Educators. (San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass, 1996).

Jones, T. and R. Compton, Kids Working it Out: Stories and Strategies for Making Peace in our Schools (San Francisco:, Jossey-Bass, 2004).

Merryfield, M and Remy, R. Teaching about International Conflict and Peace (Albany, New York: State University of New York Press, 1995).

Domestic Violence

Dutton, Donald The Abusive Personality (New York: The Guildford Press, 1998)

Farmer, Steven. Adult Children of Abusive Parents (Contemporary Books, 1989).

Felder, Raoul and B. Victor. Getting away with Murder (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1996).

Gannon, Patrick J. Soul Survivors (Prentice Hall, 1989).

Jeff Hearn, The Violences of Men, .(Newbury Park, CA: Sage, 1998).

Judith Herman, Trauma and Recovery, (New York: Basic Books, 1992.)

Herzberger, Sharon. Violence Within the Family: School Psychological Perspectives. (Westview Press, 1996).

Neil Jacobsen and John Gottman. When Men Batter Women: New Insights into Ending Abusive Relationships. (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1998).

Miller, M.S. No Visible Wounds: Identifying Nonphysical Abuse of Women by Thier Men.(New York: Fawcett Columbine, 1995).

Karr-Morse, Robin and Meredith Wiley. Ghosts from the Nursery: Tracing the Roots of Violence (New York: Atlantic Press, 1997).

Terrence Real. I Don’t Want to Talk about It (New York: Scribner, 1997).

Walker, Lenore. The Battered Women. (New York: Harper, 1982).

Environment

Berry, Thomas. The Dream of the Earth (San Francisco: Sierra Club, 1988).

Bowers, C.J. Education, Cultural Myths, and the Ecological Crisis (State University of NY Press, 1993).

………….Critical Essays on Education, Modernity, and the Recovery of the Ecological Imperative (New York: Teachers College Press, 1993)

…………Education for Ecojustice and Community. (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2001).

Brown, Lester. State of the World (W. W. Norton, 1990).

Commoner, Barry. Making Peace with the Planet (Pantheon, 1990).

McKibben, Bill. The End of Nature (Random House, 1988).

Nash, Roderick Frazier. The Right of Nature (University of Wisconsin Press, 1988).

David Orr. Ecological Literacy: Education and the Transition to a Postmodern World (Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1992

Sahtouris, Elisabeth. Gaia: The Human Journey from Chaos to Cosmos (Pocket Books, 1989).

Smith, Gregory. Education and the Environment. (State University at NY Press, 1992).

Weiner, Jonathan. The Next One Hundred Years: Shaping the Fate of our Living Earth (Villard Books, 1989).

Nonviolence

Ansbro, John. Martin Luther King Jr. (Paulist Press, 1978).

Bondurant, Joan. Conquest of Violence: The Gandhian Philosophy of Conflict (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1965).

Gandhi, Mohandas. All Men are Brothers (UNESCO: World without War Publications, 1958).

Holmes, Robert. Nonviolence in Theory and Practice (Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, 1990).

Merton, Thomas. Gandhi on Nonviolence (New York: New Directions, 1965).

Nagler, Michael. Is There No Other Way?: The Search for a Nonviolent Future (Berkeley, CA: Berkeley, CA, 2001)

Washington, James M., ed. A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings of Martin Luther King, Jr. (New York: Harper & Row, 1986).

Zunes, Stephan, Les Kurtz, and Sarah Asher. Nonviolent Social Movements: A Geographical Perspective. (Oxford: Blackwell, 1999).

Peace

Barash, David. Approaches to Peace: A Reader in Peace Studies (New York: Oxford University Press, 2000)

David P. Barash and Charles P. Webel Peace and Conflict Studies (Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications Inc., 2004L.)

Boulding, Elise et al., eds. Peace Culture and Society. (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1991).

Boulding, Elise. Cultures of Peace: The Hidden Side of History (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2000)

Christie, Daniel, Richard Wagner & Deborah Winter. Peace, Conflict, and Violence (Upper Saddle River: Prentice-Hall, 2001).

Johan Galtung and Carl Jacobsen. Searching for Peace (Sterling, VA: Pluto Press, 2000)

Cox, Gray. The Ways of Peace: A Philosophy of Peace as Action (New York: Paulist Press, 1986).

De Benedetti, Charles. The Peace Reform in American History (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1980).

Fahey, Joseph and Richard Armstrong. A Peace Reader (New York: Paulist Press, 1987).

Forcey, Linda. Peace: Meanings, Politics, Strategies (New York: Praeger Press, 1989).

Gregor, Thomas. A Natural History of Peace (Nashville, TN, Vanderbilt University Press, 1996)

Jeffrey Hopkins. The Art of Peace: Nobel Peace Laureates Discuss Human Rights, Conflict, and Reconciliation (Ithaca, NY: Snow Lion Publications, 2000).

Howard, Michael. The Invention of Peace (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2004).

Irwin, Robert A. Building a Peace System (Washington, DC: Expro Press, 1989).

Kahn, Sandra Lynn. Peacemaking: A Systems Approach to Conflict Management (Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1988).

La Cerva, Victor. Pathways to Peace: Forty Steps to a Less Violent America (Cordova, TN: Heal Foundation Press, 1996).

McGuinness, Elizabeth Anne. People Waging Peace (San Pedro, CA: Alberti Press, 1988).

Nathan, Otto and Heinz Nordan. Einstein on Peace (New York: Shocken, 1960).

Peace, Roger C. III. A Just and Lasting Peace (Chicago: The Noble Press, 1991).

Smoker, Paul et al. A Reader in Peace Studies (New York: Pergamon Press, 1990).

George Wigel and John Langan The American Search for Peace (Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press, 1991)

Peace Education

Bey, T.M. & Turner, G. Making Schools a Place of Peace. (Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin Press, 1996).

Bodine, R.J., Crawford, D. & Schrumpf, F. Creating the Peaceful School (Champaign, IL: Research Press, 1994).

Boulding, Elise. Building a Global Civic Culture (New York: Teachers College Press, 1988).

Brock‑Utne, Birgit. Education for Peace (London: Pergamon Press, 1985).

Brock‑Utne, Birgit. Feminist Issues on Peace and Peace Education. (London: Pergamon Press, 1989).

Burns, R.J. and Aspeslaugh, R. Three Decades of Peace Education around the World. (New York: Garland Publishing, 1996).

Charney, Ruth Teaching Children to Care: Management in the Responsive Classroom (Greenfield, MA: Northeast Foundation for Children, 1992).

Gandhi Marg, special issue: "Peace Education," Volume 6, No. 4 & 5, July‑August 1984.

Harvard Educational Review: Education and the Threat of Nuclear War, Volume 54, Number 3, August 1984.

Henderson, George, ed. Education for Peace: Focus on Mankind (Alexander, VA: ASCD Press, 1973).

Hicks, David (ed.). Education for Peace‑‑Issues, Principles, and Practice in the Classroom (New York: Routledge, 1988).

Hoffman, A. Schools, Violence and Society (New York:Praeger, 1996).

King, E. Meeting the Challenges of Teaching in an Era of Terrorism (New York: Thompson Publishers, 2006.)

Lantieri, Linda Schools with Spirit: Nurturing the Inner Lives of Children and Teachers (Boston, MA: Beacon Press, 2001)

Lasley, Thomas Teaching Peace: Toward Cultural Selflessness. (Boston, MA: Bergin and Garvey, 1994).

Meltzer, Milton. Ain't Gonna Study War No More (New York: Harper & Row, 1985).

Merryfield, M. and Remy R. Teaching About International Conflict and Peace. (State University at NY Press, 1995).

Montessorri, Maria. Education and the Peace (Chicago: Regnery, 1949).

O'Hare, Padraic. Education for Peace and Justice (New York: Harper and Row, 1983).

O’Reilly, M.R. The Peaceable Classroom. (Portsmouth, NH: Boynton/Cook Publishers, 1993).

Peace and Change, special issue: "The Pedagogy of Peace," Volume 13, Number 3, July 1990.

Peace and World Order Studies: A Curriculum Guide, fifth edition. Daniel C. Thomas and Michael T. Klare (eds.) (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1989).

Amiran Raviv, Louis