Comparative Education, Terrorism and Human Security: From Critical Pedagogy to Peacebuilding?

ISBN-13: 9781137280909 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 266 str.

Nelles Wayne

Opis

Policy decisions in education have changed drastically as a result of threats to our international and national security. In this timely and compelling collection, contributors discuss the significance of policy decisions on education systems, and argue th

Recenzje

"Wayne Nelles's edited collection of essays is a much?needed theoretical and pragmatic contribution, which poignantly illustrates how education can potentially contribute toward undermining terrorism and building a critical pedagogy of peace." - Yusef Waghid, Stellenbosch University, Comparative Education Review

Spis treści

Introduction; W.Nelles PART ONE: THEORETICAL ISSUES Theoretical Issues and Pragmatic Challenges for Education, Terrorism and Security Research; W.Nelles Rethinking Human Vulnerability, Security, and Connection through Relational Theorizing; H.Ross Terrorism and the Pedagogy of Violence: A Critical Analysis; J.Nef PART TWO: AMERICA AND THE WORLD Doomed to Suspicion: A Qualitative Inquiry of Selected Middle Eastern Students on American Campuses after September 11, 2001; C.Culcer 9/11 and Civic Illiteracy; J.Marciano Cultural War through Sound Bytes: The Assault by the American Council of Trustees and Alumni on Critiques of U.S. Foreign and Military Policy Following September 11; S.McAninch PART THREE: SELECTED NATIONAL CASE STUDIES Communication and DAKWAH: Religious Learning Groups and Their Role in the Protection of Islamic Human Security and Rights for Indonesian Civil Society; A.F.Bakti Human Security and Education in a Conflict Society: Lessons from Northern Ireland; M.Cannon Education and Human Security in Sierra Leone: Discourses of Failure and Reconstruction; R.Krech & R.Maclure Education of a Non-State Nation: Reconstructing a University in the War Zone of Iraqi Kurdistan; S.Mojab & B.Hall PART FOUR: COMPARATIVE AND REGIONAL PERSPECTIVES The Changing Role of Education in a Post-September 11, 2001 World: Perspectives from East Africa, Taiwan, and the United States; S.Yao Cheng & W.J.Jacob Multiple Perspectives on Terrorism and Islam: Challenges for Educators in Egypt and the United States before/after September 11, 2001; M.Ginsburg & N.Megahed Systemic Higher Educational Crises, the Politics of Terrorism and International Assistance Programs in Post-Soviet Central Asia; M.S.Johnson PART FIVE: CONCLUSIONS Conclusions: Toward a New Critical Pedagogy in the Shadow of Perpetual War; W.Nelles

O autorze

Wayne Nelles, , CIP, Lima, Peru