Visiting Scholars

The Peace Education Center hosts visiting international scholars for extended periods for conducting research and participating in training sessions and teaching opportunities.

2006

Magnus Haavelsrud (Norwegian University of Science & Technology, Norway), is a Professor of Education at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim, Norway. His work deals with the critique of the reproductive role of education and the possibilities for transcendence of this reproduction in light of the traditions of educational sociology and peace research. He took part in the creation of the Peace Education Commission of the International Peace Research Association at the beginning of the 70’s and served as the Commissions 2nd Executive Secretary 1975-79. He was the Chairperson for the World Conference on Education in 1974 and edited the proceeding from this conference entitled Education for Peace: Reflection and Action. He served as the Carl-von-Ossietzky Guest Professor of the German Council for Peace and Conflict Research. His publications include: Education in Developments (1996), Perspektiv i utdanningssosiologi ( Perspectives in the Sociology of Education (1997, 2nd edition), Education Within the Archipelago of Peace Research 1945 - 1964, (co-authored with Mario Borrelli, 1993) and Disarming: Discourse on Violence and Peace (editor, 1993).

2005

Prof. Dr. Werner Wintersteiner (Klagenfurt University, Austria), is teacher trainer at the Department for German at Klagenfurt University. He is the founding director of the Klagenfurt University “Centre for Peace Research and Peace Education.” He is a member of the Global Campaign for Peace Education and of the editorial board of the “Journal of Peace Education.” His writings include many articles and several books on intercultural and peace education in different languages. His English publications include: Wintersteiner, Werner / Vedrana Spajić-Vrkaš / Rüdiger Teutsch (eds.). 2003. Peace Education in Europe. Visions and experiences. Münster: Waxmann (European Studies in Education, 19). While visiting the Center, Werner is conducting research on “Peace Education Centers as a Tool for Peace Education.” His research is a critical inquiry with a special focus on the Peace Education Concentration and Peace Education Center at Teachers College, Columbia University, and its work in International co-operation.

Dale Snauwaert (University of Toledo, Ohio) has served as an adjunct professor in the peace education concentration for several years. Professor Snauwaert's current research interests are in the conceptualization of a civic and moral education that is responsive to the emergence of an interdependant, globalized society, the relationship between democracy and education, the nature of spirituality and its importance for education, and the nature of teaching as a refelctive and contemplative practice.

Haggith Gor Ziv (Kibbutzim College of Education, Tel Aviv, Israel) was a visiting scholar at the TCPEC in 2003-04, where she began conducting research for a book on Critical Feminist Pedagogy and Peace Education. Her research aims to establish critical feminist pedagogy as a core pedagogy of peace education. Whereas peace education and critical feminist education have in common the goal of social justice, peace educators often know very little about the pedagogy that might inform their actions, and critical pedagogues often pay little attention to the importance of peace education. The book aims to bridge the two, and is directed toward a target population of educators who are not familiar with critical pedagogy and/or peace education. It offers critical narratives of selected peace education projects from around the world, and examines how they bring about social change. The book is written in Hebrew with the goal of influencing more teachers to practice peace education in Israel, where this is so essential. It will explore the philosophy of critical feminist pedagogy and its practical application at different levels (early childhood, elementary, high school, teacher preparation) and will address various fields of study such as mathematics, bible instruction, history and literature. It will offer theoretical and practical educational alternatives for teachers who want to challenge the unjust education system but feel powerless in doing so, and provide methods of implementing a more holistic approach in teaching peace at varying development levels and in diverse areas.

2003-2004

Haggith Gor Ziv (Kibbutzim College of Education, Tel Aviv, Israel)

Magnus Haavelsrud (Norwegian University of Technology and Science, Trondheim, Norway). Professor Haavelsrud was a visiting scholar with the TCPEC during the spring semester of 2004, during which time he researched a manuscript for a new theoretical book on peace education. His manuscript explores the relation of peace education pedagogical forms, principles of content development, and the organizational frames within which learning takes place. Relations between forms, contents and organizational frames are discussed as an integrated whole wherein interdependencies are explored. The concept of peace is seen as an integration of negative and positive peace seen through micro and macro perspectives in relation to both space and time, and the integration of structure and interaction. Haavelsrud conducted a colloquium about his research in April 2004.

Kozue Akibayashi, Ed.D. (Institute for Gender Studies, Ochanomizu University, Tokyo, Japan). During her visiting scholarship at the TCPEC in the spring of 2004, Dr. Akibayashi conducted research on international women’s peace movements in the NGO community of the UN headquarter in New York, where women’s peace organizations and activists mount active lobbying. Her interest is in developing a theoretical foundation of a gender perspective in militarism, peace and global security, by looking at women’s endeavors to participate in both policy making process and academic discourse in order to introduce a gender perspective. The NGO community in the UN provides a vital and dynamic forum for this work. Since she is also active in NGO activities on these issues, Dr. Akibayashi collected data through participatory methodologies. The result of this research is reflected in her paper, “Women’s Peace Movement in Okinawa and Human Security,” presented at the Peace Studies Association Japan fall 2004 meeting held in Tokyo on November 6, 2004.