Learning to Live Together: Preventing Hatred and Violence in Child and Adolescent Development

by David A. Hamburg M.D., Beatrix A. Hamburg M.D.

Overview

With a view to deepening our understanding of sources of hatred and prejudice, this book uses a developmental and evolutionary perspective to explore and explain the process by which our beliefs are conveyed to the youngest members of society. Discussing the psychological obstacles to peaceful relations between groups, the authors focus on the developmental processes by which we can work to diminish ethnocentrism, prejudice, and hatred, which children learn from a very early age. Until now, scholarship and practice in international relations have gravely neglected crucial psychological aspects of these terrible problems and have not yet explored the educational opportunities related to them. Addressing these promising lines of inquiry and innovation, this book fosters a more humane and less violent development in childhood and adolescence. Educators, religious leaders, developmental and social psychologists, will find this a valuable resource, as will a socially concerned segment of the public who are looking for practical ways to work for peace.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780190289072
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	04/08/2004
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

Cornell University Medical College

Table of Contents

1. Growing Up in the Twenty-First Century
2. Child Development, the Human Group, and Survival
3. Ethnic, Religious, and Nationalist Factors in Human Conflict
4. Teaching Hatred
5. Development of Prosocial Behavior
6. Violence Prevention in the Context of Child and Adolescent Development
7. Contact, Intergroup Relations, and Opportunities for Education
8. Cooperative Learning
9. School-based Efforts to Minimize Violence: Concepts and Applications
10. Education for Conflict Resolution: From Public Concern to Research to Evaluation
11. Exemplary Programs of Conflict-Resolution Education
12. Community Service: Preparation for Socially Responsible Adulthood
13. Media as an Educational System: Can It Help?
14. Information Technology: Its Potential to Educate for Peace
15. International Education: A Global Outlook
16. Education for Peace: Concepts and Institutions
17. Putting Education for Peace into Practice
18. Educating for Peace: The Role of Universities
19. Overview: Toward a Better World for Our Grandchildren
Epilogue

Editorial Reviews

4 Stars! from Doody

Reviewer: Saisha Gupta, MD (Rush University Medical Center)
Description: This book depicting the roots of conflict and what can be done to help reduce prejudice and hatred is quite an accomplishment by the authors.
Purpose: The purpose is to improve understanding of conflicts among humans while addressing such issues from a developmental and social psychological perspective. This book also provides ways in which we can all learn to live together.
Audience: This book is of particular interest to mental health workers including psychiatrists, psychologists, and social workers, and teachers, parents, and policy makers.
Features: This book starts with child development and different factors related to conflict and then progresses to how individuals, groups, schools, and the media can help in the peace process and can help reduce prejudice and hatred.
Assessment: This book is very detailed. It not only provides examples from history, but most importantly, it offers solutions that each one of us can use. It is an inspiring piece of work.

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