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Education and Extremisms
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ABSTRACT
Education and Extremisms addresses one of the most pressing questions facing societies today: how is education to respond to the challenge of extremism? It argues that the implementation of new teaching techniques, curricular reforms or top-down changes to education policy alone cannot solve the problem of extremism in educational establishments across the world. Instead, the authors of this thought-provoking volume argue that there is a need for those concerned with radicalisation to reconsider the relationship between instrumentalist ideologies shaping education and the multiple forms of extremisms that exist.
Beginning with a detailed discussion of the complicated and contested nature of different forms of extremism, including extremism of both a religious and secular nature, the authors show that common assumptions in contemporary discourses on education and extremism are problematic. Chapters in the book provide a careful selection of pertinent and topical case studies, policy analysis and insightful critique of extremist discourses. Taken together, the chapters in the book make a powerful case for re-engaging with liberal education in order to foster values of individual and social enrichment, intellectual freedom, criticality, open-mindedness, flexibility and reflection as antidotes to extremist ideologies. Recognising recent criticisms of liberalism and liberal education, the authors argue for a new understanding of liberal education that is suitable for multicultural societies in a rapidly globalising world.
This book is essential reading for academics, researchers and postgraduate students with an interest in religion, citizenship education, liberalism, secularism, counter-terrorism, social policy, Muslim education, youth studies and extremism. It is also relevant to teacher educators, teachers and policymakers.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part 1|74 pages
State policies and educational practices
chapter 1|14 pages
Challenging extremism and promoting cohesion
chapter 2|14 pages
Education, freedom of belief and countering terrorism
chapter 3|15 pages
Education and disengagement
chapter 4|14 pages
Street children, integrated education and violence in northern Nigeria
chapter 5|15 pages
Misplaced Utopia
part 2|86 pages
Perspectives on extremism
chapter 6|14 pages
Challenging the legitimacy of extremism
chapter 7|13 pages
Teaching early Muslim history
chapter 8|11 pages
‘Mine own familiar friend …’ education and extremism, within historic culture
chapter 9|17 pages
Gender equality in education, context and criticality
chapter 10|14 pages
The balanced nation
part 3|77 pages
Reconceptualising liberal education and criticality