Ask the experts: can education make a contribution to peace in the middle east?

Video series produced by the Education Commons, OISE/UTCan education make a contribution to peace in the Middle East? A model for conflict resolution has been developed in an elementary school in a Jewish-Palestinian village. This pedagogy of peace has implications worldwide for overcoming hatred, alienation and violence

Difficult Memories: Talk in a (Post) Holocaust Era

This presentation was given during the American Association for Advancement of Curriculum Studies Annual Conference

Connecting

Connecting Helen Walker - Growing Up Grace Feuerverger - Mandy Gesa E. Kirsch - A Teaching Success or Failure? Betsy Newmeyer - My RIF’d Life Anita Voelker - Will’s Story Allison Brimmer - Elitist White Lady Who Tries Too Hard Debbie Axelrod - Dear Professor Walker Margo Wilson - Burnishing the Bruises Catherine M. Nelson - Jimmy Liang Zhao - Lead by Exampl

Heritage Language learning for Chinese Australians: the role of habitus

The relationship between Heritage Language and ethnic identity has gained significant research ground in social psychological and poststructural scholarship, with empirical evidence largely emerging from the North American settings. There is little pertinent sociological work conducted outside North America. To fill this gap, this sociological study sets its scene in an Australian context. Drawing on Bourdieu’s notion of habitus, the study examines the contribution of Chinese Australians’ Chineseness to their Chinese Heritage Language proficiency. Two hundred and thirty young Chinese Australians completed the online survey. Results from multiple regression indicate that habitus of Chineseness is one of the significant predictors for the Chinese Heritage Language proficiency of these young people. The study makes a theoretical contribution to investigate ethnic identity – Heritage Language link through the notion of habitus and makes a methodological contribution to quantify this habitus

Creative Responses to Separation: Israeli and Palestinian Joint Activism in Bil\u27in

This article examines creative ways in which Israeli and Palestinian activists engage with each other and the powers seeking to separate them in their nonviolent struggles for a just and lasting peace. Using the geopolitical theory of territoriality, the article briefly examines a number of administrative, physical, and psychological barriers facing joint activism and the strategies activists use to counteract them. Drawing on nonviolent theory and practice, the article analyzes how activists exert power through the creative use of symbols and practices that undermine the legitimacy of occupation policies. Based on fieldwork conducted in 2004-05 and July 2006, the article explores the implications of this activism on conceptions of identity, and strategies for restarting a moribund peace process. The relative \u27success\u27 of sustained joint action in Bil\u27in can provide scholars and policymakers with innovative approaches for addressing some of the outstanding issues needing to be addressed by official negotiators. Although government bodies are more constrained than activists, the imaginative means of engaging with the system- and the reframing of issues through the redeployment of \u27commonplaces\u27-can perhaps provide inspiration, if not leverage, for thinking outside of the box