This contribution begins from the assumption that education for peace is a legitimate curriculum aim for schools. In England this possibility is not foregrounded in current school inspection frameworks, which emphasise 'personal development' aims of developing the character traits of resilience, …
moral education
the empty demand for solidarity
In his novel “The Age of the Fish,” first published in 1937, Ödön von Horváth describes how the students in a school class ally against their teacher and try to have him replaced. The trigger for this resistance by the students was a reprimand from the teacher that seemed unjust and unacceptable to …