Peace Education: How We Come to Love and Hate War
Cambridge University Press, 2/16/2012
EAN 9781107658721, ISBN10: 1107658721
Paperback, 190 pages, 21.6 x 13.8 x 1.2 cm
Language: English
There is a huge volume of work on war and its causes, most of which treats its political and economic roots. In Peace Education: How We Come to Love and Hate War, Nel Noddings explores the psychological factors that support war: nationalism, hatred, delight in spectacles, masculinity, religious extremism and the search for existential meaning. She argues that while schools can do little to reduce the economic and political causes, they can do much to moderate the psychological factors that promote violence by helping students understand the forces that manipulate them.
1. The centrality of war in history
2. Destruction
3. Masculinity and the warrior
4. Patriotism
5. Hatred
6. Religion
7. Pacifism
8. Women and war
9. Existential meaning
10. The challenge to education.