Book Launch: "Constructive Conflict Pedagogies for Building Democratic Peace: Teaching Strategies from around the World" (Bickmore, editor)

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Book Launch: “Constructive Conflict Pedagogies for Building Democratic Peace: Teaching Strategies from around the World”

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OISE
Room 11-164
Toronto ON M5S1V6
Canada

This open access book shows what teaching for democratic citizenship and peace looks like in classrooms and teacher development in violent and less-violent contexts around the world. It features chapters written by leading scholars and practitioners working in Canada, Chile, Columbia, Cyprus, Lebanon, Mexico, South Africa, Spain, the UK and the USA. It includes sections on navigating contested history and heritage; language teaching that bridges social identities; teaching democratic engagement with conflictual issues; and students sharing authority and handling systemic violence. The chapters cover a wide range of topics with local and global significance including indigenous praxis as peace building, social conflicts, transformative hope, teacher training, and student voice. Vignettes of practice accompany each chapter, grounded in careful scholarship and teaching experience. The book shows how teachers and young people can feasibly nurture and learn non-violent ways of dealing with difficult conflicts and social tensions, to become agents of democratic revitalization and peacebuilding in their own communities and beyond. The contributors argue that teachers and teacher educators can make a crucial difference in meeting United Nations Sustainable Development Goals 4 and 16. 


About the Speakers

Kathy Bickmore is Professor of Curriculum and Pedagogy (CTL department) and Comparative International and Development Education at OISE, University of Toronto, Canada.

Presenting authors include Natasha Robinson, Michelle Bellino, Jennifer Brant, Paula Mantilla-Blanco, Constadina Charalambous, Najme Kishani Farahani, Sarah Dryden-Peterson, Jennifer Chinenye Emelife, Judith Pace, Keith Barton, Gabriel Villalón-Galvez, Ma

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