Communication and Education: Promoting Peace and Democracy in Times of Crisis and Conflict explores the complexities of addressing divisive societal challenges, reducing conflicts, and building and sustaining peace and democracy around the world. Contributions by an international panel of experts provide evidence-based practices, findings from ongoing research projects, policy analyses, and cutting-edge theories, frameworks, and models for confronting global challenges to peace and democracy.
Examining the crucial role of crisis communication and education on a global scale, this research-based compendium covers a broad range of key topics, such as democratizing education, promoting peace through complexity science, understanding how factionalism threatens democracy, encouraging citizen participation, and more. Throughout the text, the authors highlight the need for equity, compassion, critical thinking, and active engagement to create a sustainable future based on democratic values.
Designed to enhance the knowledge base of crisis communication related to crises impacting education, peace, and democracy, Communication and Education: - Explores different strategies and practices for fostering democracy in education, such as the IDEALS framework for creating positive school cultures - Discusses emotional geographies in schools and their impact on democratic school climate and teacher burnout - Emphasizes empathic communication and participatory skills among teachers - Offers practical strategies and examples of harnessing technology for peace and democracy - Provides real-world case studies illustrating the transformative power of education, music, diverse perspectives, and open communication channels - Examines the ecological interdependence of effective communication, education, democracy and peace
Part of the Wiley Blackwell Communicating Science in Times of Crisis series, Communication and Education: Promoting Peace and Democracy in Times of Crisis and Conflict is essential reading for communication and education scholars, researchers, students, practitioners, and community scientists.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments ix
List of Contributors x
1 The Promise of Communication and Education for Peace and Democracy 1
Mary John O'Hair and Philip A. Woods
Part 1 Communicating and Educating for Peace and Democracy: Frameworks 17
2 Toward Schools as Sites of Radical Democratization: New Possibilities for Democratic Education 19
Stewart Riddle
3 The Dynamic Patterning of Peace and Democracy: A Complexity Science Perspective 31
Sharon Varney
4 How Factionalism and Conflicting Worldviews Threaten Classical Liberalism and Democracy: A Terror Management Theory Perspective 46
Claude H. Miller
Part 2 Tackling Challenges to Peace and Democracy through Communication and Education 65
5 The Educational Benefits of Diversity for Civic and Political Engagement: A Case for Facilitating Cross-Racial Interactions Through Counter-Storytelling 67
Olivia Morales and Frank Fernandez
6 Teacher Discourses: Challenging or Perpetuating Hierarchical, Authoritarian, and Homophobic Social Institutions? 81
Sanjay K. Nanwani
7 Education for Peace and Depeasantization: Challenges in Post-Conflict Societies 103
Irene Giovanni
8 Let Freedom Ring: Music as a Means of Communicating and Promoting Democracy and Social Justice 114
Thomas C. Rebstock
Part 3 Communication and Technology in Building Peace and Democracy 123
9 Developing Democratic Classrooms in the Digital Age: Teaching and Learning in K-12 Schools 125
Daniela Kruel DiGiacomo, Carly Muetterties, Caitlin Taylor, Sara Trapp-Isaacs, Ryan New, and Chris Isaacs
10 Where Technology Meets Empathy: Using Digital Storytelling, Gaming, and AI to Teach about Peace and Human Rights 148
Nomisha Kurian and Caline Saad
11 Building Positive Peace Through Dialogue and Deliberation 164
Laura W. Black, Carson S. Kay, Michael Rodrigue-Barnes, Sheyla Finkelshteyn, Timothy J. Shaffer, and Daniel A. Lahera
Part 4 Communication Strategies and Practices for Fostering and Sustaining Democracy in Education 183
12 Reexamining the Democratic IDEALS and Best Practices in Education 185
Scott N. Wilson, Lindsay A. Williams, Leslie A. Williams, Amy S. Goodin, and Ayanna M. Wheeler
13 Emotional Geographies of Teaching, Empathic Communication, Democratic School Climate, and Teacher Burnout 216
Izhak Berkovich
14 Nurturing Participation in Teachers: The Case of Teachers in Sukma Bangsa Schools, Aceh, Indonesia 236
Dody Wibowo, Mahyudin, and Susan Sovia
Part 5 Transforming Educational Systems through Communication and Partnerships 255
15 Building "Glocal" Literacy to Develop Global Citizens 257
Sarah Cummins
16 Flagship University Influences on Educational System Change: Kentucky and the Center for Next Generation Leadership 269
Karen Perry, Justin M. Bathon, and Lu S. Young
Index 287
