Teaching Critically in Times of War: The Promises and Challenges in Citizenship Education

Session Type: Business Meeting

Abstract

With two major wars and numerous conflicts, displacement, and dispossession taking place in various corners of the world today, this panel seeks to grapple with new and old challenges in approaches to citizenship education. How do ideas about citizenship, belonging, and nationalism shift or become ruptured when there is war? How do larger cultural, political, educational, and economic forces and institutions contribute to and/or challenge the dominant narratives surrounding these ideas, and shape the ways that these ideas are contextually embodied, experienced, and/or practiced by individuals or groups? What role might educators play in critically engaging these junctures to unravel cultures of war and militarism and move towards broader cultures of just peace? This panel of international scholars will engage conference attendees in a conversation on these and other pressing questions we face today in times of war.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Democratic Citizenship in Education

Chair

• Tianlong Yu, Southern Illinois University - Edwardsville

Officers

• Erica Hodgin, Facing History and Ourselves

• Ellen Middaugh, San Jose State University

Panelists

• Thea Renda Abu El-Haj, Barnard College

• Aviv Cohen, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

• Michelle J. Bellino, University of Michigan

• Maria Hantzopoulos, Vassar College