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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Cannon, Susan Gelber
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Charlotte, N.C. : Information Age Pub., ©2011.
Colección:Peace education.
Temas:
Peace > Study and teaching.
Multicultural education.
Education > Social aspects.
Paix > Étude et enseignement.
Éducation interculturelle.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Peace.
Education > Social aspects
Multicultural education
Peace > Study and teaching
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Think, Care, Act
  • Teaching for a Peaceful Future
  • A volume in
  • Peace Education
  • Series Editors: Ian Harris, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
  • Edward J. Brantmeier, Colorado State University
  • Jing Lin, University of Maryland
  • CONTENTS
  • Part I: Think!
  • 1. Critical Thinking from September Through June 3
  • 2. Media Literacy and Current Events: Examining 9-11 and Presidential Elections 21
  • 3. Using Critical Imagination: The History Utopia Project and The Giver Utopia Project 37
  • Part II: Care!
  • 4. Creating the A-Team: Building the School-Wide Safety Net of Care for Students, Teachers, and Families 535. Reading Multicultural, Historical, and Controversial Literature to Enhance Empathy 65
  • 6. Creating a Caring Classroom and Global Community with Poetry and Prose 83
  • Part III: Act!
  • 7. Citizenship Action Projects in History Class 107
  • 8. Student Council Initiatives in Middle School 121
  • 9. Empowering Elective Courses: Debate, Model UN, PeaceJam 139
  • Peace Education
  • Think, Care, Act
  • Teaching for a Peaceful Future
  • by
  • Susan Gelber Cannon Episcopal AcademyInformation Age Publishing, Inc.
  • Charlotte, North Carolina â€Ø www.infoagepub.com
  • Foreword
  • Ian Harris
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS AND HEARTFELT THANKS
  • Figure 1. Private First Class Fred Gelber, 1945, Italy.
  • Figures 2 and 3. Human costs of war. J. Kadir Cannonâ€?s Anguished Art series depicts horror of war for soldiers and civilians.
  • introduction
  • Teaching Students to Think, Care, and Act for a Peaceful Future
  • “I had a modest goal when I became a teacher â€? I wanted to change the world.â€?
  • €?Howard Zinn (in Ellis & Mueller, 2004: Howard Zinnâ€?You Canâ€?t be Neutral on a Moving Train)“A culture of peace will be achieved when citizens of the world understand global problems; have the skills to resolve conflict constructively; know and live by international standards of human rights, gender and racial equality; appreciate cultura ...
  • â€?Global Campaign for Peace Education, 1999
  • “War is hell. I donâ€?t wish it on my best friends or my worst enemy. May my children, and my grandchildren, and my great-grandchildren be spared from it, forever. Amen.â€?
  • €?Private First Class Fred Gelber (Personal interview, November 23, 2000)LESSONS FROM MY FATHER
  • The Secret World of War
  • BUILDING A CULTURE OF PEACE
  • Think, Care, Act
  • Envisioning a Culture of Peace
  • PEACE EDUCATION AS AN UMBRELLA CONCEPT
  • Theoretical Underpinnings
  • A Moral Imperative
  • Negative and Positive Concepts of Peace
  • Teaching Positive Peace
  • Imagining What Might Be
  • The Unseen Harvest
  • EMPOWERING ADOLESCENTS
  • Adolescent Idealism
  • Hypotheses for Teaching for Peace

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