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Peace Education: Exploring Some Philosophical Foundations
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Peace Education: Exploring Some Philosophical Foundations

James S Page
International Review of Education, Vol.50(1), pp.3-15
2004
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Abstract

Education peace education
Peace education has been recognized as an important aspect of social education for the past three decades. The critical literature as well as official documents, however, have given little attention to its philosophical foundations. This essay explores these foundations in the ethics of (1) virtue, (2) consequentialism, (3) aesthetics, (4) conservative politics and (5) care. Each of these alone composes a significant element of peace education, although ultimately its solid basis can only be established through an integrative approach encouraging a culture of peace. The more complete development and articulation of the philosophical rationale of peace education is yet to be accomplished and remains a task for the future.

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