Education and conflict : complexity and chaos

This text provides a critical review of education in an international context. Based on the author's research and experience of education in several areas afflicted by conflict, the book explores the relationship between schooling and social conflict and looks at conflict internal to schools. Pt. I. The terms of the debate -- 1. Introduction : the nature of conflict -- 2. Complexity theory and conflict -- Pt. II. Roots of conflict and their implications for education -- 3. Economic and class relations -- 4. Gender and violence -- 5. Pluralism and identity work -- Pt. III. The education/war interface -- 6. The effects of violence on educational institutions