Betty A. Reardon (Author); Dale Snauwaert (Editor): Betty A. Reardon: A Pioneer in Education for Peace and Human Rights. Springer Briefs on Pioneers in Science and Practice No. 26 – presented by Dale Snauwaert (Cham – Heidelberg – New York – Dordrecht – London: Springer-Verlag, 2015).

ISBN (Print): 78-3-319-08966-9
ISBN (Online/eBook): 978-3-319-08967-6
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-08967-6

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• Provides access to key works of one of the founders of peace education, who has an international following.
• The book offers key texts of Betty A. Reardon on peace education and human rights
• The book includes a brief biography and a bibliography of her publications and recent unpublished presentations

Betty A. Reardon is a world-renowned leader of peace and human rights education. Her pioneering work has laid the foundation for a new cross-disciplinary integration of peace education and international human rights within a gender-conscious, global perspective. This collection of selected works reflecting her ongoing learning and professional development comprises essays that have become essential resources for peace and human rights education (1967-2014) It also provides access to some of her key works arising from over five decades of practical experience that have become foundational to the field of peace education. The unique conceptualization of a holistic framework for organizing content and the practical and specific descriptions of pedagogies for the practice of critical peace education in schools and universities have made the work useful to peace educators world wide. Several texts are widely included in the basic courses in the field. The book includes a brief biography that recounts the formation of her professional world view and a bibliography of her publications.

Content Level » Research

Keywords » Peace Education – Peace Studies – Civic Education – Human Rights – Human Rights Education Related subjects » Education & Language - International, Foreign and Comparative Law - Political Science

TABLE OF CONTENTS
List of contents: Part I: Editor’s Preface, Biography & Bibliography – Part II: The Foundations 1963 - 1985: The World Law Fund – Transformations into Peace and Survival: Programs for the 1970s – Conclusions from The Knowledge Industry – Disarmament Education as World Oder Inquiry – Part III: The Formation 1985 – 2000: The Fundamental Purposes of Peace Education – Towards a Paradigm of peace – Learning our Way to a Human Future – Part IV: Framing for Futures 2001 – 2014: Human rights learning – Human Rights and the Renewal of the University – Reflective Pedagogy, Cosmopolitanism, and Critical Peace Education for Political Efficacy – Epilogue: The First Day of Hope.

On the Author

Betty A. Reardon is a feminist peace and human rights educator - activist with nearly six decades in the development and dissemination of the field. The founder of the International Institute on Peace Education (IIPE) and the original peace education graduate specialization at Teachers College Columbia University, and one of the civil society originators of UN Security Council Resolution 1325 on Women, Peace and Security, she has worked in all world regions toward international cooperation among peace educators, Widely published in peace education and gender issues, including Comprehensive Peace Education, Teachers College Press (1985), Sexism and the War System, Teachers College Press (1985), Educating for Human Dignity, University of Pennsylvania Press (1995), Tolerance: The Threshold of Peace, UNESCO (1997), and Education for a Culture of Peace in a Gender Perspective, UNESCO (2001), her publications are archived in the Ward Canaday Special Collections at the University of Toledo Library.

Betty A. Reardon (Author); Dale Snauwaert (Editor): Betty A. Reardon: Key Texts in Gender and Peace. Springer Briefs on Pioneers in Science and Practice No. 27 – Texts and Protocols No. 13 (Cham – Heidelberg – New York – Dordrecht – London: Springer-Verlag, 2015).

ISBN (Print): 978-3-319-11808-6
ISBN (Online/eBook): 978-3-319-11809-3
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-11809-3

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• A leading author on sexism, militarism, and human security with a large international following

Betty A. Reardon is a feminist pioneer of gender studies who identified the structural relationship between sexism and the war system and as a peace scholar advocated a shift in security thinking from a state centered to a human security perspective. This book is a rich collection of her writing on gender studies, sexism and the war system, and human security from a feminist perspective. As a ground breaker in contemporary theories on gender and peace, Betty A. Reardon has continually developed an inquiry into the integral relationship between patriarchy and war, and to advocate for gender issues as essential content of peace studies, problems of gender equity as the subject of peace research, and gender experience as a crucial factor in defining and pursuing human security. Her work evolved in the context of international women’s movements for human rights and peace and the United Nations. It is widely used by activists and educators bringing a gender perspective to peace studies and education and a peace perspective to women’s studies.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

• Introduction to Reardon’s Gender & Peace Work—Snauwaert: Organization & Rationale for Selections
• Phase 1: Awareness of Women & Peace Connections 1974-1982
• Phase 2: Analysis of Interdependence of Militarism & Sexism 1983-1994
• Phase 3: Assertion of Patriarchy as Fundamental to Peace & Peace Education 1995-2013