Dear EJOLTS forum,

I upload my manuscript for open review, hoping for some help both in validating my efforts, and to help strengthen the article. 

The article is my attempt to formulate my driving educational values, working with peace education in the non-formal sector (concretely, an organisation that also runs a museum). In the article I take my time exploring my own field of practice, and elaborating why I think living educational theory and peace education fit together so well. Narrating my way through my own journey into this practice, sees me arrive at appreciation as the primary value (or category of values, perhaps - I extrapolate on this far more in the manuscript) that guides what I do.

I have had mentoring assistance from Jackie Delong and Jack Whitehead, who encouraged me (challenged..?) to also look into how my educational values influenced others, as well as myself. I look into that, and end by trying to address a living contradiction I have been, or am, guilty of.

Part of the feedback from the blind review was that my meaning and use of appreciative values were not concrete enough, at least not at an early enough stage in the text. The review also challenged the extent to which I showed how I came to the values in question, and to state them more clearly than in the previous draft. Grateful for those comments (if you are one of the anonymous reviewers, thank you!), I have tried to revise accordingly. Feel free to check if I have managed to sufficiently well.

The article is to be the fourth (of 4) articles in my PhD thesis, for which I am now working on the narrative.

It would be absent-minded of me not to mention that I will greatly appreciate your comments and suggestions.

Thanks!

Joakim