CONFIRMED INSTRUCTORS - “EDU-LEARNERS”  
The instructors of all National Peace Academy programs are “edu-learners.”  Edu-learner is a concept developed by Betty Reardon.  She defines an “edu-learner (as) a practitioner/theorist whose primary activity is learning while trying to help other people learn.  The most fundamental aspect of the edu-learning process is the role of the teacher as learner and the view of learning as a lifelong process of experience reflected upon and integrated into new learning in an organic, cyclical mode, a mode that is conscious of the relations between the inner experience and the outer realities.” 

Confirmed edu-learners for the 2010 PPI include (in alphabetical order): 
please click each name for a full bio, or click HERE for all edu-learner bios

Patti Bailie.  Education Director, Biosophical Institute; Pre-School Director, Schlitz Audubon Nature Center

Jim Boland.  Professor of Education and Director of Peace Resource Center, Wilmington College

Mark Chupp. Assistant Professor, Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences, Case Western Reserve University

Janet Gerson.   Education Director, International Institute on Peace Education (IIPE)

Samuel Guarnaccia .  Instructor (ret.), University of Vermont; guitarist and composer

Tony Jenkins.   Education Director, National Peace Academy; Global Coordinator, IIPE

Patricia Mische.   Co-Founder, Global Education Associates; former Lloyd Professor of Peace Studies & World Law, Antioch College

Betty Reardon.   Founder, IIPE; recipient of the 2009 International Peace Bureau’s Sean MacBride Prize

Patty Roeding.   President, Transpersonal Education Resources

Dale Snauwaert.   Director, Center for Nonviolence & Democratic Education and Associate Professor of Philosophy of Education, the University of Toledo, Ohio

National Peace Academy Staff:  

Mike Abkin.  Director of Organizational Development and Operations

Lou Ensel.  Co-Director and Executive Director of the Biosophical Institute 

Kristin Famula.  Director of Outreach and Stakeholder Relations 

Paula Guarnaccia. Policy and Administration

Dot Maver.  Executive Director