CURRICULUM ADVISORY BOARD

We are forming a Curriculum Advisory Board that will consist of respected educators with strong experience and credentials relevant to ethics and peace education. It will include individuals from diverse traditions and regions, representing both theoretical and operational expertise at the full range of course levels.

We envision that this board will play a real and significant role in recommending curricula, charting direction for the development of new curricula, and guiding the course of our Curricula for Ethics and Peace program over the years.

Initial Members

Stuart Carduner has 18 years of experience as an instructional design consultant, creating classroom and online training programs for clients such as Apple Computer, IBM, and Lotus. Prior to that he taught at the elementary, high school and university levels. As educational and exhibits director for a regional children’s museum in the 1980s, he established computer training programs for New England public school faculty and professional staff. In 2003 Mr. Carduner founded the online university Ashoka.

Thupten Jinpa received the highest academic degree of Geshe Lharam from Ganden Monastic University in India, and also holds a Ph.D. in religious studies from the University of Cambridge, U.K. Since 1985 he has been a principal English translator to H.H. the Dalai Lama, and has translated and edited many books by the Dalai Lama, most recently Ethics for the New Millennium. Dr. Jinpa’s most recent work is Self, Reality and Reason in Tibetan Thought.

Joy Kutaka-Kennedy currently serves as Assistant Professor of Special Education, National University, CA. Dr. Kutaka-Kennedy has a wide repertoire of experience across all phases of education, ranging from preschool to graduate level teaching. Having taught in public schools as well as private institutions, she is familiar with elementary, middle and high school levels, as well as university graduate level. She has expertise in gifted, at-risk, and special education. Specializing in inclusion and students with emotional and behavioral disorders, she earned her doctorate in Special Education in May 2003 from the University of San Francisco.

Michael Nagler is Professor Emeritus and founder of the Peace and Conflict Studies Program at UC Berkeley. Professor Nagler has published numerous works on nonviolence, including The Search for a Nonviolent Future and Is there No Other Way. He founded the METTA Center for Nonviolence Education and, most recently, co-founded Educators for NonViolence.

Steve Rowley started his career in education in 1975 as a teacher in Seattle, Washington. His educational leadership path has taken him from elementary school principal (Redwood City, CA), to assistant professor (Univ. of Idaho and WSU), to assistant superintendent (Bellingham, WA), to superintendent (Bainbridge Island, WA). He received his Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1984 in administration and policy analysis. He continues to have a strong interest in involving students and teachers in the areas of global peace, local community service, and personal ethics. He is Executive Director of Schools for Highline School District (Seattle).

Jonathan Schell is the author of numerous books, including The Time of Illusion, The Village of Ben Suc, The Gift of Time and The Fate of the Earth which in 1982 received the Melcher book award and was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize and the National book Award. Mr. Schell is a regular contributor to Harper’s, The Atlantic, the New Yorker, Foreign Affairs, and The Nation. He has taught at Yale, Princeton, and Wesleyan and is a fellow at the Nation Institute and Harvard’s Kennedy School.