The first half of the book explores how students, educators, and communities work within established educational systems to reinforce existing conditions or to promote change. By working through such institutions, these individual sand groups use education to enact, transmit, or resist ideologies. The book's second half looks at how students, educators, and communities work around or beyond existing school systems to promote political and social transformation and to create new educational opportunities in response to conflict. These practices include efforts to create new educational systems featuring alternative curricula, broader access, and improved educational equity.

A wide-ranging volume that addresses issues of vital importance within the United States and throughout the world, Education and War fills a crucial void in our understanding of education and its critical role in society.

Contributors include Thea Renda Abu El-Haj, Charles J. Beirne, S.J., Hanna Buczynska-Garewicz, Fernando Cardenal, S.J., Jocelyn Anne Glazier, Jonathan David Jansen, Susan M. Kardos, Christopher Kruegler, John E. Mack, M.D., Khalil Mahshi, Valerie Miller, Mokubung O. Nkomo, Patricia Parkman, Asgedet Stefanos, David Tyack.