Peacebuilding in Language Education: Innovations in Theory and Practice, Paperback

This book shares powerful wisdom and practical strategies to help language teachers, learners, teacher educators and others communicate peace, contribute to peace and weave peacebuilding into the language classroom and daily life. The chapters utilise a clear, six-part model (the Language of Peace Approach) that is useful for language education, peace education and in other disciplines. Along with a holistic approach to the elements of peacebuilding, the book offers nearly four dozen peace-language activities for use with adult learners and with students in secondary and post-secondary education. The book makes a unique and valuable contribution to the discussion of how we can live peacefully together in a changing world.

About author(s):Rebecca L. Oxford, University of Maryland, USA Professor Emerita and Distinguished Scholar-Teacher, now guides dissertation research methodology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA. María Matilde Olivero is a second language teacher-educator and researcher at Universidad Nacional de Río Cuarto, Argentina. Melinda Harrison is a lecturer at Auburn University at Montgomery, USA and is working on a PhD in Educational Studies in Diverse Populations at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA. Tammy Gregersen is Professor of TESOL at the American University of Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates.