Aiming for world peace by promoting 'violence' in education Webster, R. Scott 2006, Aiming for world peace by promoting 'violence' in education, in PESA 2006 : Politics, business and education - the aims of education in the twenty-first century : Proceedings of the 2006 Philosophy of Education Society of Australasia conference, The Society, Sydney, N.S.W., pp. 1-11. Attached Files Name Description MIMEType Size Downloads webster-aimingforworld-2006.pdf Published version application/pdf 71.84KB 113 Title Aiming for world peace by promoting 'violence' in education Author(s) Webster, R. Scott orcid.org/0000-0002-5253-4894 Conference name Philosophy of Education Society of Australasia. Conference. (2006 : Sydney, New South Wales) Conference location Sydney, New South Wales Conference dates 23-26 Nov. 2006 Title of proceedings PESA 2006 : Politics, business and education - the aims of education in the twenty-first century : Proceedings of the 2006 Philosophy of Education Society of Australasia conference Editor(s) [Unknown] Publication date 2006 Conference series Philosophy of Education Society of Australasia Conference Start page 1 End page 11 Publisher The Society Place of publication Sydney, N.S.W. Summary In order to contribute towards UNESCO’s goal of pursuing world peace, aims of education must transcend the limited scope of national self-interest which has dominated schooling systems in the West for the last two centuries and further back when the survival of each polis in Ancient Greece was of paramount importance. Aims must therefore become different and the environment that is thought best for this to occur is a democratic one. The case is made that such a democratic environment should involve opportunities to evaluate the value of current aims of education and to explore others in light of the pressing need to pursue peace on a global scale. In order to promote such a democratic environment of discussion and debate the notion of ‘violence’ is considered as a potential framework for such a re-evaluation. The sort of ‘violence’ that is called for is in reference to its use by Emmanual Levinas who employed it emotively to misinterpret Kierkegaard. The use of this misapplied term ‘violence’ may nevertheless be of use in initiating the sort of inquiry of a Deweyean type regarded here to be necessary to improve aims of education democratically in order to pursue world peace. Notes Reproduced with the specific permission of the copyright owner. Language eng Field of Research 139999 Education not elsewhere classified Socio Economic Objective 970113 Expanding Knowledge in Education HERDC Research category E1.1 Full written paper - refereed Copyright notice ©2006, PESA Free to Read? Yes Persistent URL http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30033913 Document type: Conference Paper Collections: Faculty of Arts and Education School of Education Open Access Collection Related Links Link Description Connect to published version Go to link with your DU access privileges     Unless expressly stated otherwise, the copyright for items in DRO is owned by the author, with all rights reserved. Every reasonable effort has been made to ensure that permission has been obtained for items included in DRO. If you believe that your rights have been infringed by this repository, please contact drosupport@deakin.edu.au. Versions Version Filter Type Fri, 15 Apr 2011, 15:28:10 EST Fri, 03 Jun 2011, 13:35:43 EST Fri, 03 Jun 2011, 13:37:08 EST Fri, 03 Jun 2011, 13:49:50 EST Fri, 03 Jun 2011, 14:05:46 EST Mon, 06 Jun 2011, 10:09:55 EST Fri, 16 Mar 2012, 18:50:54 EST Tue, 05 Dec 2017, 10:49:01 EST Fri, 07 Sep 2018, 15:23:11 EST Filtered Full Citation counts:   Cited 0 times in TR Web of Science Cited 0 times in Scopus Search Google Scholar Access Statistics: 650 Abstract Views, 113 File Downloads  -  Detailed Statistics Created: Fri, 15 Apr 2011, 15:28:10 EST