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The United Nations and Higher Education - Kevin Kester

The United Nations and Higher Education

Peacebuilding, Social Justice and Global Cooperation for the 21st Century

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Buch | Hardcover
240 Seiten
2020
Information Age Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-64802-055-1 (ISBN)
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Kevin Kester's book examines how UN-promoted higher education for peace can unintentionally reproduce conflict. He critiques dominant peace education models and advocates for new concepts in educational philosophy and sociology to better contribute to peacebuilding. Personal reflections complement his findings.
In this book, Kevin Kester details how the United Nations promotion of higher education for peace and international understanding sometimes unintentionally contributes to the reproduction of conflict and violence across diverse cultures. He shows this through an indepth examination of peace curricula, pedagogy and policy in one United Nations higher education institution, where he indicates how dominant philosophical and pedagogical models that signify acceptable peace education ultimately undermine the very goals of educational peacebuilding.

Kester contends that theoretical and pedagogical training must develop beyond the dominant psycho-social, rational and state-centric assumptions that permeate the field today if higher education is to better contribute to personal and societal peacebuilding. Drawing from the fields of educational philosophy and sociology, he argues for new concepts of poststructural violence and second order reflexivity that can assist scholars in reducing conflict and building peace in lasting ways. He complements his fieldwork findings with personal reflections throughout the book to reimagine the transformative possibilities of peacebuilding education for the 21st century.

Kevin Kester, Keimyung University

Foreword; Hilary Cremin.

Acknowledgments.

Chapter 1. Introduction.

Chapter 2. Situating Peace and Conflict Studies.

Chapter 3. Peace and Conflict Studies in Higher Education.

Chapter 4. Whiteness in Peace and Conflict Studies.

Chapter 5. Peace and Conflict Studies Higher Education Inside the United Nations.

Chapter 6. Analytical Framework.

Chapter 7. Methodology.

Chapter 8. The UN May Be the Biggest Obstacle.

Chapter 9. There's a Reason That Someone Is Getting Paid to Be a Professor: Tensions With Critical Pedagogy in the Peace and Conflict Studies Classroom.

Chapter 10. Reproducing Peace? Whiteness in the Curriculum and Teaching.

Chapter 11. Re-Imagining Peace and Conflict Studies Education for the 21st Century.

Chapter 12. Conclusion.

Afterword; Michalinos Zembylas.

References.

About the Author.

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Peace Education
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 234 mm
Gewicht 515 g
Themenwelt Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Allgemeines / Lexika
Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Bildungstheorie
Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Erwachsenenbildung
Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung Europäische / Internationale Politik
Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung Politische Theorie
Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung Staat / Verwaltung
ISBN-10 1-64802-055-0 / 1648020550
ISBN-13 978-1-64802-055-1 / 9781648020551
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