How Children Understand War and Peace: A Call for International Peace Education (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780787941697)

How Children Understand War and Peace is a landmark book thatexamines these two vital questions and provides a solid frameworkon which to build answers. Written by an international panel ofexperts in the fields of developmental, social, and educationalpsychology, How Children Understand War and Peace presents acollection of the most current thoughts and insights into howchildren and adolescents develop an understanding of war, conflict, and peace.

Based on research studies done in Australia, Canada, Finland, Holland, Israel, Portugal, Northern Ireland, Sweden, and the UnitedStates, this comprehensive volume presents evidence thatperceptions of war and peace formed during childhood relatedirectly to adult perspectives on these critical issues. Thecontributors present persuasive evidence that our knowledge abouthow youngsters from around the globe develop and form worldviewscan be used to create educational programs that teach childrenpeace education, conflict management, and conflict resolution.

Author: Amiram Raviv,Louis Oppenheimer,Daniel Bar-Tal
ISBN-10: 0787941697
ISBN-13: 9780787941697
Publisher: Jossey-Bass
Language: English
Published: 06/10/1999
Pages: 356
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.23lbs
Size: 9.23h x 6.31w x 1.12d