Channel guidance
This is not a research-based resource. It is a policy document produced by the UK Government in 2012 (although these links are to the April 2015 updated version) to give advice for partners (including...
View ArticleLearning together to be safe: A toolkit to help schools contribute to the...
This not a research-based resource. It is a toolkit prepared by the Department for Children, Schools and Families (now Department for Education) in response to the first iteration of the Prevent...
View ArticleDewsbury case reminds us we have much to learn about how extremism spreads
Michael Cohglan, CC BY-SA Families are bound to be urged to be more vigilant for signs of radicalisation after it emerged that a young man from Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, is believed to have become the...
View ArticleDoes Religious Education Promote Good Community Relations?
This article does not directly research extremism, radicalisation or fundamentalism. However, it does provide an insight into how Religious Education (RE), as taught in British schools, might promote...
View ArticlePrevent duty guidance
This is not a research source. The links from this page go-to the UK Government’s website to where it has provided statutory guidance on implementation of the 2015 Counter-Terrorism and Security Act....
View ArticleThe Think Project: An Approach to Addressing Racism and Far-Right Extremism...
Journal abstract The Think Project is a grassroots project initiated by the Ethnic Youth Support Team in Swansea, South Wales to provide a response for preventing far-right extremism. The project was...
View ArticlePreventing Violent Extremism through Value Complexity: Being Muslim Being...
Journal abstract This article reports on an intervention designed to prevent violent extremism in young UK Muslims, and provides an empirical assessment of its effectiveness. The course was designed to...
View Article‘Digital fluency’: towards young people’s critical use of the internet
Journal abstract The rise of the internet as the greatest source of information for people living in the UK today poses an acute challenge to the information literacy (IL) community. The amount and...
View ArticleEducation and Conflict: Complexity and Chaos
Publisher’s description First-place winner of the Society for Education Studies’ 2005 book prize, Education and Conflict is a critical review of education in an international context. Based on the...
View ArticleEducating Against Extremism
Publisher’s description Extremism is a huge concern across the world right now, fuelled by its links to terrorism and religious fundamentalism. This book explores the relationship of education to...
View ArticleA New Settlement: Religion and Belief in Schools
This pamphlet arises from the research and debate carried out by the Westminster Faith Debates and the Religion and Society Research programme which gave rise to them. It calls for a re-examination of...
View ArticleWhat can schools do about radicalisation?
Schools are increasingly seen as being on the front-lines of the battle to prevent extremism. Their duty to prevent extremism has now been enshrined in law in Section 26 of the 2015 Counter-Terrorism...
View ArticleTeachers on the frontline against terror: what should schools do about...
Schools will have a legal duty to prevent their pupils being drawn into terrorism from July 1, when new counter-terrorism guidelines come into force. In many ways this is nothing new – schools are...
View ArticleSchools should offer anti-extremist education for all, not spy on those at risk
With British schools now under a legal duty to monitor children’s risk of radicalisation, teachers now have the daunting prospect of planning how they are going to go about it. Although the...
View ArticleThe use of social media for online radicalisation
This is not a research resource. This is a guide produced by the UK Government, Department for Education, to help Headteachers and school staff identify some of the propaganda and methods used by ISIS...
View ArticleNeither villains nor victims: Towards an educational perspective on...
Journal abstract This study questions whether the perspectives of security and intelligence serve educators well enough in the early stages of radicalisation. Assigned to signal deviant behaviour,...
View ArticleThinking interestingly: The use of game play to enhance learning and...
Journal abstract Students of homeland security need to grasp a diverse body of knowledge and have a keen understanding of the variety of events and issues that impact how they can apply that knowledge....
View ArticleAddressing radicalisation into the classroom – a new approach to teacher and...
Abstract This article examines one response to the UK Government’s directive that radicalisation and extremism should be tackled in all UK secondary schools. The small scale study is set in the broader...
View ArticleAddressing Radicalisation into the Classroom – A New Approach to Teacher and...
Journal abstract This article examines one response to the UK Government’s directive that radicalisation and extremism should be tackled in all UK secondary schools. The small scale study is set in the...
View ArticleEducation and Extremisms: Rethinking Liberal Pedagogies in the Contemporary...
Publisher’s description 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...
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