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Newsletter
April, 2000 Volume 2, Issue
5
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Welcome!
We have the most current listing of sessions and roundtables
that will take place in New Orleans at the annual conference, April 24-28, 2000,
as well as a special event at our Annual Business Meeting - an Interactive
Symposium on International Peace Education. These session listings can also be
read on-line at:
http://www.aera.net/ and http://zhao.educ.msu.edu/aera/index.wsf
Peace Education SIG Session
AERA Conference 2000
New Orleans
I. Paper Presentations
April 22, Monday 4:05-6:05 p.m.
Sheraton, Pontchartrain F, 3rd Floor
Chair/Discussant:
Blythe F. Hinitz, College of New Jersey
- Narratives of Peace: A Reflective Interview Study
about Teachers and Learners in a Jewish-Palestinian School in Israel
Grace Feuerverger, University of Toronto
- Fear, Fighting, and Bullying in High Poverty
Environments: Survey Results.
Olga Jarrett, Gwen Davies, Mary Helen Hunt,
Kathryn Rogers, Georgia State University
- A Study of the Impact on Past Pupils of Integrated
Education in Northern Ireland.
Claire McGlynn, University of Ulster
- Improving Integrating Education.
Julie McGonigle, University of Oxford
- Water in an Era of Peace: Attitudes of Israeli and
Palestinian Youth toward Peaceful Coexistence and Regional Cooperation in
Water Management.
Ruth Zuzovsky, Kibbutzim College of Education
II. SIG Peace Education/Business/Membership Meeting
Invited International Panel
Monday evening 6:15-8:15 p.m.
Sheraton, Edgewood, 4th Floor
Interactive Symposium: Multiple Perspectives of
International Peace Education
Chair and Discussant: Aline M. Stomfay-Stitz, SIG Chair
Invited Symposium Panel:
Edith King, University of Denver;
Maria Elena Madrid, Universidad Pedagogica Nacional- Mexico
City;
Mary Lee Morrison, University of Connecticut;
Hetty Van Gurp, League of Peaceful Schools, Nova
Scotia; and
Jan Visser, UNESCO, Paris.
In addition to paper presentations, there will be time for a group discussion
with panelists and session attendees, with an emphasis on interaction and
networking. Small groups continue to meet outside of the session
room. Business Meeting will be brief.
III. Roundtables
April 23, Tuesday afternoon 12:25-1:05 p.m.
Marriott, Carondelet, 3rd Floor
- Table 38 Education Outside the Box: Who is Successfully
Modeling Peace and Justice Education and What Can We Learn from Them?
Vanessa Allen-Brown, University of Cincinnati
- Table 39 Peace Education: The Importance of Social Engagement
Skills and a Human Rights Framework
Ursula Birthistle, University of Ulster
- Table 40 Integration of Prosocial Music in Kindergarten through
University Classes: Methods and Outcomes
Candice C. Carter, University of North Florida
- Table 41 Towards a Model for Peace Education and
Conflict Resolution Training in Schools
Katherine C. Cook, Duquesne University
- Table 42 To Avoid Conflicts - A Multimedia Training Concept for
Reflected Communication
Michale Henninger, Heinz Mandl, Maria Linz,
Andreas Hoerfurther, University of Munich
- Table 43 Values in Education and the Promotion of Citizenship in
Northern Ireland
Alison C. Montgomery, University of Ulster
- Table 44 Major Scientific Study Finds Resolving Conflict Creatively
Program in New York City Is Effective in Preventing Violence.
Tom Roderick, Linda Lantieri, Educators for Social
Responsibility; Lawrence Abner, National Center for Children in Poverty
Related Sessions That May Be of
Interest:
1. Our panelist from our SIG 1999 Interactive Symposium, Gavriel
Salomon, Haifa University is serving on a Symposium Panel (Division C). His
topic: New Perspectives on Interdisciplinarity: From Research on Peace
Education.
Time: Tuesday, April 23, 4:05-6:05 p.m.
Place: Marriott, Mardi Gras F, 3rd Floor
2. Effects of School Violence. Paper Presentations (6)
Conflict Resolution and Violence Prevention SIG
Time: Tuesday, April 23rd, 8:15-10:15 a.m.
Place: Sheraton, Rampart, 5th Floor
3. Impact of Violence and Aggressive Behavior in
Adolescence-Paper Presentations (3)
Division E
Time: Tuesday, April 23rd, 10:35-12:05 noon
Place: Le Meridien, Orleans, 3rd Floor
4. Conflict Resolution Interventions - Paper Presentations
(4)
Conflict Resolution and Violence Prevention SIG
Time: Wednesday, April 24th, 8:15-9:45 a.m.
Place: Le Meridien, Rosalie, 3rd Floor
5. Symposium: Multiple Perspectives on Youth Violence
Policies: A Symposium Reporting on a Comparative Research Project Examining
Educational Policies and Related Social Policy Initiatives Aimed at Redressing
Risks of Urban Adolescent Violence in Canada, Ivory Coast, Kenya and
Nicaragua
International Studies SIG/ International Relations Committee
Time: Wednesday, April 24th, 12:15-1:55 p.m.
Place: Sheraton, Rampart, 5th Floor
6. School Violence & Conflict Programs. Paper
Presentations (7) Cooperative Learning SIG: Theory, Research, and Practice; and
Conflict Resolution and Violence Prevention SIG/Cooperative Learning Time:
Thursday, April 25th, 8:15-10:15 a.m.
Place: LeMeridien Conde, 3rd Floor
7. What's the Fine Line? A Performance/Workshop on Violence
in Schools.
Division B & Conflict Resolution & Violence Prevention SIG
Time: Tuesday, April 23rd, 6:15-7:45 p.m.
Place: Creative Arts City Wide Access School, Mirror
Theater, 721 St. Philip St.
8. Membership Meeting - Conflict Resolution & Violence
Prevention SIG and Cooperative Learning SIG
Time: Tuesday, April 23rd, 6:15-7:45 p.m.
Place: Sheraton, Bayside B, 4th Floor
Note: Conflict with Performance Workshop listed above.
CALL FOR NOMINATIONS
New SIG Officers to be elected at Annual Meeting
There will be a change in leadership in April 2000. Program
Chair, Blythe Hinitz will move up to the position of SIG Chair. If you are
interested in becoming the new Program Chair or the Secretary/Treasurer, please
send an e-mail to Blythe at hinitz@tcnj.edu
. YOU DO NOT NEED TO BE PRESENT IN NEW ORLEANS TO BE ELECTED. Please let us know
as soon as possible. We welcome ALL!
Report on the First Interethnic Coexistence Conference -
Educating for an Emerging Global Field, Haifa, Israel,
November 7-8, 1999
Special Report contributed by Rachel Hertz-Lazarowitz,
Conference Chair from the University of Haifa rachelh@construct.haifa.ac.il
The faculty of Education
at the University of Haifa and the Abraham Fund of New York City, co-sponsored
in November, 1999, the first international conference on Interethnic
Coexistence: Educating for an Emerging Global Field. Since about 20% of the
Haifa University student body is comprised of Israeli Arabs, Muslims, Christians
and Druze, the campus was an ideal location for the Conference.
The goal of the Conference was to bring together scholars and
practitioners from conflict areas that are working on coexistence. The basic
belief was that coexistence efforts throughout the world have the potential to
prevent both the onset and the escalation of interethnic conflict. It was
important to bring to the Israeli scene the most updated theories, research and
action in the field of coexistence to researchers and educators. Of greatest
importance, though was to pursue the message that coexistence work can and
should be an academic field within universities.
The Conference is an additional step in the efforts to
professionalize this field. In 1998, The Handbook of Interethnic Coexistence was
published by the Abraham Fund and Continuum Press, edited by Eugene Weiner. This
handbook contributed a challenging collection of work in the field.
Presenters at the Conference were from
several countries and included people from Ireland, Turkey, England, Croatia,
Ireland, Israel, Spain and the USA.
Gavriel Salomon (gsalomon@research.haifa.ac.il),
co-director of the Center for Research on Peace Education at the University of
Haifa, who served on a Peace Education SIG Panel in 1999, presented a
"Reexamination of Peace Education Principles in Interethnic Conflict
Contexts." He shared that "coexistence programs . . . should aim
primarily at changing people's mindsets about the 'other'. . . and about
constructive - and not just on non-violent activities."
From Northern Ireland, David Holloway (davidh@co-operation-ireland.ie)
noted a key defect in the Belfast Agreement - the fact that "the people
were excluded from the process." Instead, they advocated for
"community dialogue" in order to "develop mutual understanding
and sufficient trust."
From Croatia, Dinka Corkalo (corkalo@yahoo.com)
from the University of Zagreb, related the various efforts underway for the
"reconstruction of social communities . . . in the post-war resettlement
process." The process of reconciliation has been launched in local
communities.
The University and the Abraham Fund are
searching for ways to continue to foster education for coexistence and for
peace. An Abstract Book on the Conference is available, which includes abstracts
from the presentations/papers. It is $10.00, available from : The Abraham Fund,
15 Arlozorov St., Jerusalem 92181 Israel.
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