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Rethinking peace education: a cultural political economy approach
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posted on 2023-06-09, 19:14 authored by Sean HigginsSean Higgins, Mario NovelliMario NovelliThrough a case study of a peace education intervention in postwar Sierra Leone, this article seeks to contribute to the ongoing critique of dominant peace education approaches that seek attitudinal and behavioral change in conflict-affected societies. Specifically, the article interrogates “Emerging Issues,” a curriculum intervention developed in 2007–8 by UNICEF for teachers in Sierra Leone. It applies the analytical framework of Cultural Political Economy, an interdisciplinary theoretical current that extends traditional concerns of political economy with power and institutions to show their interaction with cultural processes of meaning making. The insights suggest that this approach to peace education might not be as benign as projected. Instead, we assert that it promotes a form of pacification derived from a decontextualized curriculum that treats victims as guilty and in need of attitudinal and behavioral change, while avoiding engagement with the structural and geopolitical drivers that underpin many contemporary conflicts.
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Comparative Education ReviewISSN
0010-4086Publisher
University of Chicago PressExternal DOI
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1Volume
64Page range
1-20Department affiliated with
- Education Publications
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2019-10-07First Open Access (FOA) Date
2021-01-22First Compliant Deposit (FCD) Date
2019-10-03Usage metrics
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