(RE)PRODUCING A PEACEFUL CANADIAN CITIZENRY: A LESSON ON THE FREE TRADE OF THE AMERICAS QUEBEC CITY SUMMIT PROTESTS.

In this article, I argue that despite common assumptions that peace education efforts achieve social change, it is often a normalizing, nation-building project that obscures hierarchies of power. Focussing on a lesson from a popular peace education program currently used in Canadian schools, I have analyzed the convergences between peace and citizenship education and consider the implications of pedagogies that encourage peace as a personal choice and responsibility. I call for an approach to peace education that promotes critical thinking on how knowledge is produced. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

On suppose communément que Ia promotion de l'éducation pour la paix fait évoluer la société, mais l'auteure soutient dans cet article qu'elle est plutôt un projet national normatif qui camoufle des pouvoirs hiérarchiques. À l'aide d'une leçon faisant partie d'un programme d'éducation pour la paix trës utilisé dans les écoles canadiennes, l'auteure analyse les convergences entre la paix et l'éducation a la citoyerneté et s'intéresse aux implications des pédagogies qui encouragent la paix comme un choix et tine responsabilité personnels. Elle prône tine approche qui favorise la pensée critique au regard du mode de production du savoir. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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