The Peace Education Center of Teachers College Columbia University invites you to attend the following events in our colloquia series for 2004

“Race to the Bottom: A Simulation Activity on Global Capitalism,” conducted by special guest Barbara Barnes
Thursday, April 15th, 3:30 -5:00pm

and

“Exploring Relationships among Content, Form and Structure in Peace Education,” a special conversation with distinguished visiting international scholar Magnus Haavelsrud
Wednesday, April 28, 3:30-5:00pm

Details on both events follow. Please feel free to share this information with your friends and colleagues. We hope to see you at these or future events.

We invite you to participate in:

“Race to the Bottom: A Simulation Activity on Global Capitalism,”
Facilitated by Special Guest: Barbara Barnes, Educator and Activist
Thursday, April 15, 2004
3:30 – 5:00pm
Teachers College Columbia University
Room 179 Grace Dodge
(525 West 120th St. between Broadway and Amsterdam)
NO RSVP required

This experiential presentation will examine the social and ecological consequences of capital investment decisions.
How is the gap between rich and poor increasing?
What is the role of elites in Third World countries?
What decision-making processes are influential?

Race to the Bottom is a simulation activity based on The Transnational Capital Auction developed by Bill Bigelow of Rethinking Schools. The workshop enables participants to experience the dynamic nature of capital with its own needs and inclinations and concludes with a discussion of potential ways to divide money and resources more equitably within countries and throughout the world.

Barbara Barnes is an educator and long time activist in economic and social justice issues. Currently, she works with Educators for Social Responsibility, where she has developed curriculum and led workshops for high school students. She also teaches for the International Center for Cooperation and Conflict Resolution (ICCCR) at TC. Barbara has facilitated workshops for United for a Fair Economy, Boston, and her international experience includes Mozambique and Kenya. Barbara received her doctorate from TC in Curriculum and Teaching.

We invite you also to attend a

A special conversation with distinguished visiting international scholar Magnus Haavelsrud,
“Exploring Relationships among Content, Form and Structure in Peace Education”
Wednesday, April 28, 2004
3:30-5:00pm
Teachers College Columbia University
Room 229 Thompson
(525 West 120th St. between Broadway and Amsterdam)
NO RSVP REQUIRED

In this presentation professor Haavelsrud will explore the relations between Peace Education content, form and structure in which the following inquiries will be addressed:
- How do we find answers to the question of what is the content of peace?
- How do we determine which forms of communication to be recommended in Peace Education?
- How do we view the relationship between contents and forms?
- Given structural conditions, what are the possibilities for desirable forms and contents?

Magnus Haavelsrud is a professor at the Norwegian University of Technology and Science, Trondheim, Norway. His work centers around the critique of the reproductive role of education and the possibilities for transcendence of this reproduction in light of the traditions of educational sociology and peace research. He took part in the creation of the Peace Education Commission of the International Peace Research Association at the beginning of the 70’s and served as the Commissions 2nd Executive Secretary 1975-79. He was the chairperson for the World Conference on Education in 1974 and edited the proceeding from his conference entitled Education for Peace: Reflection and Action. He served as the Carl-von-Ossietzky guest professor of the German Council for Peace and Conflict Research.

For further information on this and other events, please direct inquiries to: peace-ed@tc.edu or (212) 678-8116
Tony Jenkins
Coordinator
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Peace Education Center
Teachers College - Box 171
Columbia University
New York, New York 10027
tel: (212) 678-8116 fax: (212) 678-8237
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