Can Big Bird Fight Terrorism?: Children's Television and Globalized Multicultural Education

ISBN-13: 9780190903954 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 288 str.

Naomi A. Moland

Recenzje

A rich, nuanced, and well-executed study of the ways in which the best of the West breaks down in deeply-divided non-Western social and political spaces. The book integrates a fine-grained understanding of Nigeria with the multi-perspectival viewpoint of an informed theoretician and educator able to see and unpack cultural assumptions. A cautionary tale for those who would use television and other instruments of soft-power to tame terrorist impulses and teach tolerance in deeply divided societies, and a must-read for those seeking a Global South perspective on multicultural education; for development specialists and peace-builders of all stripes. The book is a reminder that the ways that schools operate in society teach as effectively as the intended lessons of the curriculum or television program.

O autorze

Naomi A. Moland is on the faculty of the School of International Service at American University. Her research and teaching focus on cultural globalization, international education, global media, and peace and conflict. In addition to her projects on international children's media, Moland is conducting research on the cultural dynamics of the global LGBTQ rights movement. Her work has been published in peer-reviewed journals such as Comparative Education Review and Urban Education.