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Teaching Peace: Lessons from a Peace Studies Curriculum of the Progressive Era
Author(s) -
Zeiger Susan
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
peace and change
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1468-0130
pISSN - 0149-0508
DOI - 10.1111/0149-0508.00141
Subject(s) - peace movement , curriculum , league , ideology , peace education , political science , social studies , period (music) , peace and conflict studies , sociology , pedagogy , law , politics , aesthetics , philosophy , physics , astronomy
The historical roots of peace education as a school reform movement can be traced to the progressive era in the United States. This essay offers a content analysis of the first comprehensive peace education curriculum, published in 1914 by the American School Peace League, under the direction of Fannie Fern Andrews. Examining the curriculum raises fundamental questions about the teacher's role in social change; it also reveals ideological tensions within the peace movement of the WorldWar I period.