EVENTS

Publications

2026

Kester, K. (2026). Asia As Method in Korean higher education: Toward Transformative Possibilities. Journal of International and Comparative Education, 15(1). https://doi.org/10.14425/jice.2026.15.1.0704

 

Park, H.K. and Kester, K. (2026). Navigating the Postcritical Turn in Multicultural Education: A Case Study of South Korean Elementary School Teachers' Diverse Orientations. Korean Journal of Comparative Education, 36(2), pp. 141-197. ​http://dx.doi.org/10.20306/kces.2026.36.2.141 

 

Kester, K.; Park, B.; Gerstner, N.L.; Seo, R. (2026). Healing the scars of war: teaching for peace through higher education in divided and conflict-affected contexts. Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, (online). https://doi.org/10.1080/03057925.2026.2643254

 

Kester, K., & Misiaszek, G. (eds.) (2026). Conflict, Peace, and Teaching in Higher Education. Special Issue of Teaching in Higher Education. Volume 26, Issue 3 (20 articles). London: Routledge.

 

Ali, N. M., Haji-Ibrahim, F., & Gerstner, N. L. (2026). Reimagining the role of higher education for peacebuilding: reflections from Somaliland. Teaching in Higher Education, 31(3), 443–459. https://doi.org/10.1080/13562517.2025.2571907

 

Lee, W.O., Kester, K., & Eom, J.M. (eds.) (2026). A Modern Guide to Education in East Asia: Globalization and Local Intersections. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing

 

2025

​Kester, K. (2025). Peace Education as a Form of Global Citizenship Education in Universities in Divided Settings: Challenges and Prospects. Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education.

 

Kester, K., Kim, H., Kwon, S.J., Lu, D., Maruyama, Y., Matsui, K., Yu, Y., & Brantmeier, E. (2025). Peace Education Research in East Asia, 2020-2025: Key Works Published in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. Asia Pacific Education Review, 26.

 

Kester, K., Eom, J.M., & Chen, S. (2025). Peacebuilding through Education in Northeast Asia: A Critical Reflection on a Peace Education Common Curriculum Guide Project. Asia Pacific Journal of Education.

 

Christine H. Joo, Kexin Dong, Soyun Kim, Bomi Park, Carlotta Ehrenzeller, Jwalin Patel, Edward Brantmeier & Kevin Kester. (2025). Exploring the Crossroads of Ecological Civilization and Peace Education: Interdisciplinary Dialogues on Sustainable Development. In Michael A. Peters, Benjamin J. Green, Greg William Misiaszek, Xudong Zhu (Eds.), Handbook of Ecological Civilization Concept, Philosophy, and Pedagogy. Springer Nature.
https://link.springer.com/rwe/10.1007/978-981-97-8101-0_53-1

 

Kiwoong Park; Kevin Kester; Sung-Sang Yoo. (2025). An Exploratory Study on Rwandan Peace Educators’ Perceptions and Experiences of the Use of Technology in Peace Education. Korean Journal of Comparative Education, 35(5), pp.85-129. 
​http://dx.doi.org/10.20306/kces.2025.35.5.85

 

Kevin Kester, Youngjae Chang, Euna Lim & Hyunkyung Hwang. ​Hwang (24 Jul 2025). Postcritical global citizenship education in practice: insights from Punjab, Pakistan. Globalisation, Societies and Education.
https://doi.org/10.1080/14767724.2025.2536298

 

Mary Abura, Kathy Bickmore, Edward J. Brantmeier, Virginia Cawagas, Hilary Cremin, Nicki L. Gerstner, Christine Joo, Riya Kartha, Kevin Kester, William W. McInerney, Rira Seo, Toh Swee-Hin (S.H.Toh), and Tongnan Xie. (2025). Pedagogies of peace and coexistence in amore-than-human world: an intergenerational dialogue on educational peacebuilding and climate action around the globe. In Alexander W. Wiseman, Emily W. Anderson, Lisa Damaschke-Deitrick, Ericka Galegher, Nino Dzotsenidze, and Maureen Park (Eds.). Handbook on Comparative Education (pp. 463-485), Edward Elgar Publishing. 
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781803927831

 

Yoonsun Na and Kevin Kester. (2025). Understanding the professional identity of overseas Korean schoolteachers: The case of Korean transnational educators in one school in Southeast Asia. The International Education Journal: Comparative Perspectives, 24(1), pp. 1-22, (open access).

 

Nicki L. Gerstner, Euna Lim, & Mary Abura (2025). Global citizenship education in Korean higher education: moving beyond transformative calls to praxes. Higher Education Research & Development, 44(4), 886–900.
https://doi.org/10.1080/07294360.2024.2439855

 

 

2024

Kester, K., & Misiaszek. G. (2024). Four Essential Questions for Teaching Conflict for Peace, Justice, and Sustainability: Higher Education Roles and Responsibilities. Teaching in Higher Education, 30, 277-292.

 

Youngjae Chang. (September 2024). Book Review: Right Where We Belong: How Refugee Teachers and Students are Changing the Future of Education by Sarah Dryden-Peterson. 2022. Cambridge, MA, USA: Harvard University Press. pp xii + 260. US$ 36.00 (hardcover); $34.20 (ebook). ISBN: 9780674267992. Global Comparative Education: Journal of the WCCES (ISSN: 2522-7491),8(1-2), (open access).

 

Dahyun Kim & Heekyung Park. (September 2024). Book Review: Common Curriculum Guide for Peace Education in Northeast Asia by UNESCO-APCEIU (Asia-Pacific Centre of Education for International Understanding), 2023. Seoul, Republic of Korea: UNESCO-APCEIU. 147 pp., ISBN: 979-11-93573-06-8 (paperback), open access at 
https://www.unescoapceiu.org/post/5051. Global Comparative Education: Journal of the WCCES (ISSN: 2522-7491), 8 (1&2), (open access). 

 

Kevin Kester, Christine Hyunjin Joo, Bomi Park, Kiwoong Park, Youngjae Chang. (2024). Researching Ethically in Conflict-Affected Contexts: Examples from Educational Research Practice in the Global South and Global East. Korean Journal of Educational Research, 62(3), pp. 1-36.
​http://dx.doi.org/10.30916/KERA.62.3.1

 

2023

Kester, K. (ed.) (2023). Revisiting “Asia as Method” in Education Research: Toward Ontologies and Epistemologies of Difference. 

​Special Issue of Asia Pacific Education Review. Volume 24, Issue 2, pp. 181-290 (9 articles). New York: Springer. 

 

Chen, S., Eom, J.M., & Kester, K. (eds.) (2023). Common Curriculum Guide for Peace Education in Northeast Asia. Seoul, Korea: UNESCO-APCEIU.

Euna Lim and Kevin Kester (2023). Korean Middle School Teachers’ Perceptions and Teaching Practices of Multicultural Education: A Qualitative Case Study. International Journal of Multicultural Education, 25(3), pp. 67-87. 
https://doi.org/10.18251/ijme.v25i3.3603​

 

Kevin Kester, Rira Seo & Nicki Gerstner (2023): Prefigurative pedagogies for working toward peace and justice in changing times: insights from Korea, Journal of Peace Education.
https://doi.org/10.1080/17400201.2023.2230907

 

2022

Eom, J.M., & Kester, K. (2022). Education for Peace and International Understanding in the Asia- Pacific: 

​Trends and New Directions. In W. O. Lee, P. Brown, A. L. Goodwin, & A. Green (eds.), Springer International Handbook of Education Development in the Asia-Pacific (pp. 139-157). New York: Springer.

 

Ana Catalina Velasco and Kevin Kester. (2022). Building a Culture of Peace through Non-Formal Education: The Case of Colombia's Memory Museum. Korean Journal of Comparative Education,  32(2), pp. 1-38.
http://dx.doi.org/10.20306/kces.2022.32.2.1

 

Kevin Kester, Mary Abura, Chaewon Sohn and Ella Rho. (2022). Higher education peacebuilding in conflict-affected societies: beyond the good/bad binary. International Journal of Comparative Education and Development (IJCED). (open access).
https://doi.org/10.1108/IJCED-04-2022-0027

 

2020

Kester, K. (2020). The United Nations and Higher Education: Peacebuilding, Social Justice and Global Cooperation for the 21st Century. Foreword by H. Cremin and Afterword by M. Zembylas. Leeds, England: Emerald Publishing.