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Georg Arnhold International Summer School onEducation for Sustainable Peace 2014

Braunschweig, GermanyJuly 24 to 29, 2014

The Georg Eckert Institute for International Textbook Research. Member of the LeibnizAssociation (GEI) is pleased to announce its first annual Georg Arnhold International Summer Schoolon Education for Sustainable Peace exploring the theme of:

T EACHING AND L EARNING ABOUT THE PAST IN THE AFTERMATH OF (C IVIL ) WAR AND MASS VIOLENCE : T HE C HALLENGES AND PROMISES OF HISTORY EDUCATION

IN DIVIDED AND POST -WAR SOCIETIES

The twentieth century has been an age profoundly marked by armed conflict and mass violence. In Age of Extremes (1994) , the historian Eric Hobsbawm famously referred to this era as being withoutdoubt the most murderous century of which we have record by the scale, frequency and length of thewarfare which filled it. The previous century was dominated by two global wars of unprecedentedmagnitude. It was also punctuated by numerous inter-state and civil wars, violent uprisings, rebellions,revolutions, coups, politicides and genocides.

The tragic legacy left by the violence experienced in the last decades has led to a heightened

awareness of a duty to remember and to understand traumatic historical events, their causes anddynamics, and the circumstances that led to, or conversely hindered, their resolution. Education has

been a main channel through which both local and external actors have sought to promoteunderstandings and lessons from the past with a view to preventing future wars and to advancing

peace and reconciliation. Today, addressing the topics of war and peace in the classroom is recognizedas being critical to sensitizing the younger generation to the motto of Never Again .

As part of the Georg Arnhold Program at the Georg Eckert Institute, the Summer School will bededicated to examining how schools around the world deal with the topics of war and peace, and

particularly with a nations violent past. It will explore experiences of war and transition as they areremembered, negotiated and articulated by policy-makers, as well as by teachers and pupils inconflict-ridden and post-war societies. Its aim will be to stimulate reflection on the challenges andopportunities presented by teaching and learning history in the wake of war and mass violence, and,more specifically, to assess the role of history education and its reform in conflict resolution and in

post-war transitional justice and peacebuilding processes.

Time will be spent investigating the actors, discourses and overall circumstances that have influenceddevelopments in this field at the level of both policy and practice. This includes the production,revision and reception of curricula, textbooks and other educational media as well as the narrativesthat have effectively circulated in schools and their relation to dominant and dissident narrativescirculating in the wider society. Moreover, the Summer School will explore the various strategies and

approaches that have been used to deal with difficult pasts in the classroom, including their theoreticalunderpinnings, their core principles and methods and their impact. The Summer School will alsoinvestigate lessons learned and crucial open questions and options in the field of history education.


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The GEI invites original contributions that draw upon diverse contexts, theories and methods to shednew light on questions that include, but are not restricted to, the following themes:

1. History Education and its Reform in the Aftermath of Civil War and Mass Violence: Actors,

Processes, Discourses

Which actors and discourses shape the production and revision of curricula, textbooks andother educational media in the aftermath of war and mass violence?

To what extent do politics of post-war transitional justice affect (history) educationreform? To what extent are history education and its reform inscribed in transitional

justice processes and understood as a means to reconciliation? How does this relate to thework of such mechanisms as truth commissions and tribunals?

What discourses and practices have been adopted by external actors, and how do theyaffect local processes and outcomes?

What can history education contribute to a culture of peace?

2. Representations of War and Peace in Curricula, Textbooks and Other Educational Materials

What is prescribed in the curriculum in relation to the topics of war and peace, and of anations difficult past more specifically? T o what extent are such policies reflected ineducational media, including textbooks and supplementary materials?

How is imagery used within the textbook narrative? How are resources other than textbooks (e.g. movies, museums, memorial sites) expected

to be used?

3. Representations of War and Peace in the Classroom: Teacher and Student Voices and Experiences

To what extent are the topics of war and peace, and more specifically a nations difficult past, taught in the classroom?

How are curricula and educational materials received and how are they used in theclassroom to teach about this past?

How do teachers and students grapple with the violent past and its legacies, and withexisting myths and controversies? To what extent do their biographical experiences

(including their involvement as actors, witnesses, targets or resisters of violence) affect theteaching and learning process in relation to this past? How do teachers shape the process of conveying and interpreting institutional

requirements for those historical events that coincide or collide with their own personalhistories?

How do young people respond to the narratives and approaches adopted in the classroom?To what extent is their historical consciousness determined by textbook discourses and/or

by the teacher s treatment of the subject? How does knowledge and understanding of the past, or the lack of it, affect young

peoples attitudes and values?


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The week-long Summer School will bring together early-career scholars, senior researchers and practitioners working in the field of education and peace from around the world. It will provide aninterdisciplinary and international discussion forum that will allow participants to debate and criticallyreflect upon key research questions, methods, findings and their implications. The academic programwill include interactive lectures and workshops by renowned experts, thereby offering participants the

opportunity to enlarge upon their research perspectives and methodological competencies. Participantswill also get the chance to become part of the Georg Eckert Institutes extensive network of scholar sand practitioners. Moreover, the GEI plans to publish the findings of the Summer School and will ask

participants and experts to submit articles for publication based on their presentations.

Please note: The working language of the Summer School will be English. No registration fees apply.Accommodation and meals will be provided for all participants and economy class travel expenseswill be reimbursed.

How to apply?

The invitation to the Summer School is extended primarily to doctoral candidates and post-doctoralscholars from the humanities and social sciences (e.g. the fields of education, history, political science,sociology, anthropology and psychology). Staff members of international organizations and NGOs arealso welcome to apply. Applications from M.A. students and recent M.A. graduates will be consideredonly in exceptional cases.

The GEI invites suitable applicants to submit abstracts of no more than one page together with thecompleted application form (www.gei.de/en/fellowships/georg-arnhold-professorship-

program/program/summer-school.html ), a CV and a publication list. All documents must be in Wordor PDF format and the file size must not exceed 3 MB (file name: last name, first name). Submissionsshould be made electronically. Please send applications to [email protected], with the subjectline Arnhold Summer School. The deadline for completed applications is April 2 , 2014 . Successful

applicants will be notified by May 8, 2014 .

Contact

Martina SchulzeProgram Coordinator Georg Arnhold ProgramGeorg Eckert Institute for International Textbook ResearchCeller Str. 338114 BraunschweigGermany

Tel.: +49 (0) 531-590 99-313Fax: +49 (0) 531-590 99-99Email: [email protected]
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