Dr. Verma won a top award for her book Critical Peace Education and Global Citizenship: Narratives From the Unofficial Curriculum.
茄子视频鈥檚 Rita Verma, Ph.D., associate professor in the , has been awarded a top prize鈥攖he ANAHEI Research Leadership Award: Global Issues, from the 2017 Global Conference on Education and Research (GLOCER) for her book (Routledge, 2017).
The book was inspired by Dr. Verma鈥檚 work in the community and in the classroom and her passion for teaching social studies education and peace studies at Adelphi.
鈥淚t is in the class when we get angry鈥攗pset and disillusioned鈥攜et find a sliver of possibility or imagination and find solutions.鈥� Dr. Verma said about teaching at Adelphi. 鈥淭hese moments give me hope that young people in society care and will want to make a difference鈥� whether that be a small act in their own life or a grand movement to resist violations of human rights- it makes me believe that humanity will move forward when it feels that the world is moving backward.”
The book鈥檚 focus is on how to teach for global change, imagining possibilities for peace and human rights which, according to Dr. Verma, requires a certain level of courage and determination.
鈥淚 hoped to share through my own examples and the work of countless allies that the 鈥渋n between moment鈥� of silence and rupture might be the point of departure to imagine and develop strategies to realize peace and global citizenship.鈥� explained Dr. Verma. 鈥淎s students become the learner activists鈥攖hey begin to give meaning and a sense of ownership of their vision and interpretation of what it means to be critical and responsible for their own actions and for the fate of others.鈥�
Dr. Verma, whose focus in and at Adelphi, offers narrative accounts representing the multiple ways teachers and learner activists have come to realize the possibilities of peace through 鈥渦nofficial curricula鈥� and included many rich examples from her own classroom where she approaches teaching at Adelphi with the same ideology.
鈥淢y students need to take ownership of their lens and voice and further through their own agency realize a pathway towards a vision of a better community and world.鈥� said Dr. Verma. 鈥淭he knowledge factory has become a race to accumulate facts as a means to an end鈥攚hereas understandings of peace and human rights essentially become a means to a beginning鈥� and is oftentimes a journey with no defined outcome.鈥�
The book has also been nominated for the National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS) Exemplary Research Award and will be submitted for CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title award consideration.
Dr. Verma is far from finished with her work. She hopes to write another book in the future and is currently working with the United Nations and other national organizations on multiple projects as an advocate for human dignity and rights.
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