Awakenings to the Calling of Nonviolence in Curriculum Studies

Acknowledgments - Awakenings: An Autobiographical, Intellectual, and Pedagogical Journey - Ethics of Nonviolence as a Curriculum Vision (2010) - A Nonviolent Approach to Social Justice Education (2013) - Confucian Self-cultivation and Daoist Personhood: Implications for Peace Education (2013) - A Nonviolent Perspective on Internationalizing Curriculum Studies (2014) -Unteachable Moments and Pedagogical Relationships (2016) - An Integrative Psychic life, Nonviolent Relations, and Curriculum Dynamics in Teacher Education (2019) - Nonviolence as Teacher Education: A Qualitative Study in Challenges and Possibilities (2018) - Curriculum as Mindfully Lived in Relationship (2023) (Hannah Hunter- Lynch, Denise Kimblern, Danny Sexton, and Hongyu Wang) - "Think Back through Our Mothers:" A Curriculum of Organic Relationality (2021) -Feminist Approaches to Nonviolence and Curriculum Theory - Currere of Nonviolence: Starlight, a Ringing Bell, and Dream Work - Index.

Hongyu Wang is a professor in Curriculum Studies at Oklahoma State University-Tulsa. Her scholarship and teaching areas include nonviolence education, curriculum theory, international dialogues, mindful teaching, and the inner landscape of education. She has authored numerous articles and scholarly books.

'Starlight is everywhere', Hongyu Wang exclaims-That starlight is nonviolence, lighting the way in dark times; but we must awaken to it, as the call of this moment, and as a call that is educational. Advancing nonviolence as an everyday practice of education, rooted in a sense of our interconnectedness, she proposes a positive force for the cultivation of flourishing personhood and planet, a promising response to the challenges of division and difference, and a transformational path for creatively restoring and sustaining human happiness and community. She invites us, as well, to imbue our understandings of curriculum as lived with such energy and intention, by which violence and its normalization may not only be denounced, and systems of domination and dualism deconstructed, but also dynamic, nonviolent relationality nurtured within and among us respecting self, others, and the world. A truly beautiful and phenomenal achievement, this seminal and systematic treatment of nonviolence in education and curriculum studies is at once: intellectually productive-illumining the limitations of as well as lines of affiliation with current literature in the field advancing democracy, equity and social justice; theoretically sophisticated-deftly integrating international/indigenous wisdom traditions, nonviolence and peace studies & movements, as well as diverse theoretical perspectives (e.g., critical, poststructural, psychoanalytic, feminist); and emotionally stirring-infused with the experiential insight and autobiographical heart of this foremost scholar on the subject. If King reminds us that the arc of the moral universe bends toward justice, Hongyu Wang convinces us that it bends toward nonviolence too. Molly Quinn, PhD St. Bernard Chapter of the LSU Alumni Association Endowed Professor Director, LSU Curriculum Theory Project Louisiana State University