ABSTRACT

Reconciliation is one of the most significant contemporary challenges in the world today. In this innovative new volume, educational academics and practitioners across a range of cultural and political contexts examine the links between reconciliation and critical pedagogy, putting forward the notion that reconciliation projects should be regarded as public pedagogical interventions, with much to offer to wider theories of learning.

While ideas about reconciliation are proliferating, few scholarly accounts have focused on its pedagogies. This book seeks to develop a generative theory that properly maps reconciliation processes and works out the pedagogical dimensions of new modes of narrating and listening, and effecting social change. The contributors build conceptual bridges between the scholarship of reconciliation studies and existing education and pedagogical literature, bringing together the concepts of reconciliation and pedagogy into a dialogical encounter and evaluating how each might be of mutual benefit to the other, theoretically and practically.

This study covers a broad range of territory including ethnographic accounts of reconciliation efforts, practical implications of reconciliation matters for curricula and pedagogy in schools and universities and theoretical and philosophical considerations of reconciliation/pedagogy. It will be of great interest to students and scholars of peace and reconciliation studies, educational studies and international relations.

chapter 3|16 pages

Beyond reconciliation

Reflections on South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission and its implications for ethical pedagogy

chapter 4|20 pages

Suffering, memory and forgiveness

Derrida, Levinas and the pedagogical challenges of reconciliation in Cyprus

chapter 5|30 pages

‘Walking the talk'

East–West reflections on remembrance, forgiveness and forgetting

chapter 9|18 pages

Growing understanding

Issues in mainstream education in Indigenous and traditional communities

chapter |7 pages

Afterword