Greetings!
The CIES Peace Education Special Interest Group (SIG) was initiated in 2005 to bring together members of the Comparative and International Education Society with common interests in the study of peace and conflict, human rights, and social justice in education. Currently, the SIG has an active membership of some 50 students, practitioners, and scholars as well as an email list-serve that reaches more than 100 individuals. Past SIG activities have included inter-disciplinary panels held at the CIES meetings, networking events, school visits, and co-sponsorship of a conference held by the Teachers College Peace Education Center at the United Nations in the summer 2007.
We welcome scholars and practitioners who are interested in peace education and encourage dialogue and participation to strengthen the workings of this SIG. Please feel free to contact us for more information about the CIES Peace Education Special Interest Group and its activities.
Best wishes,
Ayaz Naseem & Karen Ross, co-chairs (2011-2013)
Call for proposals
Peace Education SIG of the Comparative and International Education Society (CIES)
“The Worldwide Education Revolution”
The Peace Education SIG invites proposals for the CIES 2012 conference in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Some believe that the worldwide education revolution has brought unprecedented improvements in quality of life, peace and democracy in the global society. Education (in combination with other social, political and economic institutions) has the potential to prevent conflict, contain it once it happens, and to mitigate its effects after the cessation of violence. On the other hand scholars such as Bourdieu have also termed education as a symbolically violent space. Bush and Saltarelli in their groundbreaking study ‘the two faces of education in ethnic conflict’ (2000) show that education has been used as an instrument of: cultural repression of minorities, maintenance of inequality between groups in the society, denial of access through forced closure of school, manipulation of history textbooks to create the official national historical narrative, and for normalization of attitudes of superiority compared to the domestic and international ‘other’.
In line with the theme of the conference the PE SIG invites paper and panel proposals that explore the role of peace education in the worldwide education revolution. Specifically, we invite scholars to explore the following dimensions of the conference theme in relation to peace education: What has been the legacy of the education revolution in terms of constructions of peace and violence? What can peace education do to address the current challenges and promises for the future? How do the transformative and democratic effects of education interact with the social forces of inertia and inequality that still pervade the system of education in both developed and developing countries? What can peace education in the broader context of comparative and international scholarship uniquely add to the debate about the emerging schooled society?
The CIES Peace Education Special Interest Group (SIG) was initiated in 2005 to bring together members of the Comparative and International Education Society with common interests in the study of peace and conflict, human rights, and social justice in education. At the upcoming CIES conference in Puerto Rico, the Peace Education SIG will host highlighted panels that correspond to the overall conference theme of “The Worldwide Education Revolution.” Past panels have discussed issues of race, class, gender, and dis/ability issues within peace education; situated meanings of peace and violence in diverse contexts; alternative, transformative methods of promoting equitable peace; peace and diversity with a focus on equity, access, and opportunity; building transcultural/intercultural borderlands that respect difference; dialogue in peace education practice and theory; human rights education; the dialectic between peace educator/learner within a framework of critical pedagogy; and the evaluation of peace education through the lens of equity and accountability.
The early submission deadline for the 2012 conference is October 1, 2011. All proposals MUST be submitted via the CIES 2012 website; please be sure to select PEACE EDUCATION Special Interest group when submitting your proposal. Authors of proposals selected for presentation through the Peace Education SIG at the conference will be required to be Peace Education SIG Members. The Peace Education SIG will host a business meeting at the conference where prospective members can learn more about the SIG and its activities.
Individual and panel proposals must follow the guidelines and requirements of proposal submission of the 2012 conference. The guidelines can be viewed at: http://www.cies2012.psu.edu/index.html
We look forward to a scintillating exchange in San Juan
Dr. M. Ayaz Naseem
Karen Ross
Co-chairs, Peace Education SIG
Comparative and international Education Society
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