Education in War and Peace

Bringing together fourteen essays originally published in Hebrew and newly revised for an English-language audience, Education in War and Peace offers a critical examination of the most enduring and urgent debates in contemporary education. It interrogates the aims of education, the relationship between teaching and learning, the chronic failures of reform, and the conditions under which schools lose or regain their vitality.

Combining philosophical analysis with practical guidance, the book confronts both long-established and newly emerging challenges. It explores how education responds to political upheaval, war and state intervention; how ideological conflicts shape educational practice; and how teachers might cultivate ethical reasoning, motivation and peace-oriented thinking. Throughout, the author develops innovative frameworks for rethinking education, grounded in his prior work on communities of thinking and strategic educational design.

This volume will appeal to scholars of education, teacher educators, school leaders, and policymakers, as well as teachers seeking intellectually rigorous ways to rethink their practice. It will also be of interest to postgraduate students and engaged parents concerned with the future direction of education in an increasingly unstable political and cultural landscape.