Buch, Englisch, 276 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 427 g
Rethinking Liberal Pedagogies in the Contemporary World
Buch, Englisch, 276 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 427 g
ISBN: 978-0-367-19871-8
Verlag: Routledge
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.
Zielgruppe
Postgraduate and Professional
Autoren/Hrsg.
Fachgebiete
Weitere Infos & Material
Foreword Acknowledgements List of Contributors Introduction Section 1. State Policies and Educational Practices 1. Challenging Extremism and Promoting Cohesion: National Policies and Local Implementation 2. Education, Freedom of Belief and Countering Terrorism: The Minefield between UK Policy and School Implementation 3. Education and Disengagement: Extremism and the Perception of Muslim Students 4. Street Children, Integrated Education and Violence in Northern Nigeria 5. Misplaced Utopia: Education and Extremism - the Case of Pakistan Section 2. Perspectives on Extremism 6. Challenging the Legitimacy of Extremism: Critique through Education in the Work of Khaled Abou El Fadl 7. Teaching Early Muslim History: Facilitating Criticality through a Source-based Approach 8. ‘Mine Own Familiar Friend.’ Education and Extremism, within Historic Culture 9. Gender Equality in Education, Context and Criticality: Student Teacher Engagements in Three Northern Nigerian States 10. The Balanced Nation: Addressing the Challenges of Islamist and Far-Right Extremism in the Classroom 11. Multiple Ontologies of Extremism: ISISes in Education, a Case Study Section 3. Reconceptualising Liberal Education and Criticality 12. Negotiating Difference in Educatoin: Extremism, Political Agency and an Ethics of Care 13. Resilience and Soft Power: an Analysis of UK Government and International Guidelines and Resources to Address Radicalisation and Extremism in Education. 14. Promoting Tolerance to Schools in a Time of Extremism 15. Nurturing Critical Thinking across Self-Other Dichotomies 16. Cosmopolitanism as Transformative Experience: towards a New Social Ethic Epilogue
