SELECTED PUBLICATIONS ABOUT PEACE EDUCATION

 

Ian M. Harris

 

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Peace Education TheoryJournal of Peace Education. Volume 1. Number 1. March 2004 pp. 2-20.

 

            "Peace Education: Colleges and Universities," Encyclopedia of Violence, Peace, and Conflict.  San Diego: Academic Press, 1999, 679B689.

 

                        A description of the many ways that colleges and universities are implementing peace education at the end of the twentieth century.

 

            Peace-Building Responses to School Violence,  NASSP Bulletin, March 2000, 84 (164) 5-24.

 

                        An analysis of different ways that educators are responding to threats of school violence in schools in the United States.

 

            "Types of Peace Education," How Children Understand War and Peace, Amiran Raviv, Louis Oppenheimer, and Daniel Bar-Tal, eds., San Francisco:     Jossey-Bass, 1999, pp. 299B310. 

 

 

A categorization of different approaches to peace education from conflict resolution to world order studies to environmental education.

 

                with Aaron Callender, “Comparative Study of Peace Education Approaches and their Effectiveness,”

 

                        The NAMTA Journal, Vol. 20, No. 2, Spring 1995, pp. 133-145.

An evaluation of peace education training in 8 elementary classrooms in an urban school district shows that those schools with a more wholistic approach to peace education are more effective in teaching peace.

 

            The Challenge of Peace Education: Do Our Efforts Make a Difference?”  Educational Foundations.  Volume 6, Number 4, Fall 1992, pp. 75‑98.

 

            An evaluation of college students taking peace studies classes indicates that they tend to change their own personal behaviors that cause conflict in their lives, but do not  tackle macro solutions that address violence in the broader world.

 

            Peace Education in an Urban School District in the United States.”  Peabody Journal of Education, Vol. 71, No. 3, Summer 1996, pp. 63-84.

 

            Reviews various peace education strategies used by teachers to respond to the effects of structural violence upon their students and to create a more peaceful climate in schools.

 

            Peace Education: A Modern Educational Reform.”   Proceedings of the Midwest Philosophy of Education Society, 1993-1994, pp. 253-274.

 

            Provides definitions and discusses how teachers can use peace education content and strategies to improve educational performance in schools.

 

            Nonviolence in Education,” Proceedings of the Midwest Philosophy of Education Society 1995-1996, pp. 255-274.

 

            An overview of nonviolent theory and how it can be applied to school content, pedagogy, and administration.

 

            From World Citizen to Peace in the ‘Hood: Peace Education in a Postmodern World.”  Journal for a Just a Caring Education, Vol. 2, #4, 1996, pp. 378-395.

 

            An analysis of how different aspects of peace theory (peacekeeping, peacemaking, and peacebuilding) can be carried in schools.

 

 

Factors that Promote Retention of Peace Education Training,” Peace Studies from a Global Perspective. Ursala Oswald Spring, ed. Delhi, India: Maadhyam Book Services, 2000, pp. 399-420.

 

Explains that teachers are more likely to implement peace education training if they themselves are concerned about issues of violence affecting their students.

 

 

            A Portrait of Peace Studies Programs at Colleges and Universities  with L. Fisk and C. Rank International Journal of Peace Studies. 3 (1) , 91-112.