Nonviolence as Educational Praxis, offers an international perspective on integrating nonviolence into educational practices. Featuring contributions from scholars in the USA, Canada, South Africa, Brazil, England, and elsewhere, this volume emphasizes the urgency of practicing nonviolence in the international educational landscape.
It centers nonviolence in the educational field within and beyond schools in terms of nonviolent communication, autobiography, storytelling, psychoanalytical implications, relational dynamics and ecological perspectives, and much more. This book illustrates how educators can create spaces that encourage compassion, interconnection, and growth.
Nonviolence as Educational Praxis serves as an important resource for educators and practitioners dedicated to enacting meaningful change in their classrooms and communities, reinforcing the urgent need for a worldwide commitment to nonviolence in education in todays chaotic and violent world.
Part I. Justice, Relationality, and Pedagogies of Nonviolence
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1. Advancing Epistemic Justice for Rural Students in South Africa
Higher Education Hellen; Agumba and Gaston Bacquet Quiroga
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2. Re-imagining Teacher Education: Andragogy of Hope and Nonviolence;
Ivon Prefontaine
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3. Enacting a Pedagogy of Nonviolence in Classrooms; Ying Ma
Part II. Systemic Change, Media Literacy and Community Building
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4. Nonviolence in Education: Towards Creating Compassionate
Communities; Rita Monique Bouchard
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5. Nonviolence Education and Uneven Landscapes of Victimization in
Brazilian Schools; Bóris Maia
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6. Creating Spaces of Nonviolence Through Communities of Difference:
An Intentional Emergent Process; Tandra G. Morris, Sarah R. Price, and Alyssa
H. Quarles
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7. Engaging Media Literacy, Promoting Nonviolence; Jon L. Smythe
Part III. Nature, Literature, and Art
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8. Fostering Nonviolence Education: The Poetic Language of the Mother
Tree; Danita Dodson
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9. Nonviolence Through Young Adult Literature Heidi; W Jenkins
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10. Creative Energies between Art and Nonviolence: Portals for Praxis
from an Educational Journey; Jennifer L. Schneider
Part IV. Spiritual, Existential, and Philosophical Dimensions of Nonviolence
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11. Nonviolence Education: An Existential Imperative; Tara Sethia
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12. Buddhist Currere of Fearlessness and Selflessness; Jin Jr Shi
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13. The Starlight of Nonviolence, Integrative Power, and Educational
Independence; Hongyu Wang
Ying Ma is a faculty member in the Department of Educational Studies at Kwantlen Polytechnic University.
Jon L. Smythe is an Assistant Professor of Curriculum Studies at Oklahoma State University.
Jennifer Williams is a graduate student in Curriculum Studies at Oklahoma State University.
