1st Edition

Education as Humanisation Dialogic pedagogy in post-conflict peacebuilding

Edited By Scherto R. Gill, Ulrike Niens Copyright 2016
152 Pages
by Routledge

152 Pages
by Routledge

148 Pages
by Routledge

Over the past decades, there has been a consistent and poignant ambiguity with regard to the role of education in the context of post-conflict and divided societies working towards building peace. Most recently, global developments, including the after-effects of the Arab Spring, the devastating wars in Syria, and the refugee crisis in Europe, have directed our attention once more to the part... Read more

Introduction – Education as humanisation: dialogic pedagogy in post-conflict peacebuilding Scherto Gill and Ulrike Niens

1. Education as humanisation: a theoretical review on the role of dialogic pedagogy in peacebuilding education Scherto Gill and Ulrike Niens

2. Contextual and pedagogical considerations in teaching for forgiveness in the Arab world Ilham Nasser, Mohammed Abu-Nimer and Ola Mahmoud

3. Global citizenship as education for peacebuilding in a divided society: structural and contextual constraints on the development of critical dialogic discourse in schools Jacqueline Reilly and Ulrike Niens

4. Articulating injustice: an exploration of young people’s experiences of participation in a conflict transformation programme that utilises the arts as a form of dialogue Heather Knight

5. Lebanese youth narratives: a bleak post-war landscape Roseanne Saad Khalaf

6. Reconciliation through dialogical nostalgia in post-conflict societies: a curriculum to intersect Petro du Preez

Biography

Scherto Gill is a Research Fellow at the Guerrand-Hermès Foundation for Peace, Brighton, UK, and Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Sussex, Brighton, UK. She writes in the fields of education, peace and dialogue, her most recent publications including Rethinking Secondary Education (2013), Religion, Spirituality and Human Flourishing (2014), and Why Love Matters: Values in Governance (2015).

Ulrike Niens has worked as a researcher and senior lecturer at Ulster University, Coleraine, Northern Ireland, and Queen’s University Belfast, Northern Ireland. Her research and teaching focused on education for peace and democracy in divided societies. She was a member of the editorial and the international editorial board of Compare from 2009-2014. She is currently taking a career break and is working as a clinical psychologist in Germany.