W.E. Marsden's scientific contributions

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The modern peace movement can be traced back at least to the early 1800s, when peace societies were established in Britain and the United States, among other countries. The British journal The Herald of Peace, founded in 1819, and underpinned by Quaker doctrine, was an early protagonist for education for peace. From this time, peace movements were...

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... What does it mean to teach the geography of peace? Geography teachers have been particularly engaged with this question at two periods of modern history: the 1930s, when education was seen as an important path to internationalism, and in the 1980s when the teaching of peace in schools became highly politicised and was eventually curtailed by the 1988 Education Reform Act (Marsden, 2000). For Jenkins writing in the midst of this second period, the task is twofold: to insert peace themes into the human and physical geography curricula, but also to teach in ways that are not authoritarian (Jenkins, 1985). ...