1st Edition
Transrational Perspectives in Peace Education
This volume investigates how peace education can contribute to unfold collective and individual potentials for peace and conflict transformation. It explores how to cultivate a relational process that honours the interconnectedness of educators, students, researchers and participants in all their human faculties. This includes acknowledging not only the rational, but also the embodied, emotional, mental and spiritual dimensions, in their complexity and in their ongoing, dynamic transformations.
Motivated by the possibilities and challenges involved in this process, this book explores the nexus between transrational peace philosophy, elicitive approaches to conflict transformation and peace education. The first part discusses the transrational peace philosophy and locates it within a broader field of peace education, while the second part reflects on how transrational perspectives are tapped into within peace education approaches. In total, eight researchers and practitioners engage productive tensions that unfold in different geographical spaces, in the classrooms, and within and between us through embodied, affective, societal and transpersonal lenses.
Transrational Perspectives in Peace Education encourages both researchers and practitioners to experiment with and engage the multifaceted potentials that are involved in transrational perspectives within peace education. This book was originally published as a special issue of Journal of Peace Education.
Preface
Hanne Tjersland and Paula Ditzel Facci
1.Introduction: Unfolding Transrational Potential
Hanne Tjersland and Paula Ditzel Facci
2.Conviviality, Ego, Team and Theme Behaviour in Transrational Peace Education
Wolfgang Dietrich
3.Diffraction, Transrational Perspectives, and Peace Education: New Possibilities
Kevin Kester, Shawn Bryant and Tim Archer
4.The Dancing Body in Peace Education
Hanne Tjersland
5.Education for Territorial Peace in Colombia: What Role for Transrational Peace?
Josefina Echavarría and Hillary Cremin
6. Transpersonal Consciousness in Elicitive Teaching
Noah B. Taylor
Biography
Hanne Tjersland is a PhD Candidate in International Studies in Peace, Conflict and Development at Jaume I University, Castelló de la Plana, Spain. She focuses on embodied and arts-based methods for peace and uses especially Open Floor dance and movement practice and drama/theatre as her teaching tools.
Paula Ditzel Facci serves as Assistant Professor of Peacebuilding at the Center for Justice and Peacebuilding, Eastern Mennonite University, Harrisonburg, USA. She has taught at the University of Innsbruck, Austria, and in Brazil and in Germany. Her publications include Dancing Conflicts, Unfolding Peaces (2020) and Practitioner’s Toolkit: Gender in Peace and Conflict (2020).
