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Thomas, Paul – Journal of Jewish Education, 2016
This study explores high school students' views of Jews in one minority-dominated school in Oslo, Norway. Employing a qualitative approach, semistructured interview guides and classroom-based discussions teased out attitudes toward Jews drawing on questions from a nationwide research conducted by The Center for Studies of the Holocaust and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Jews, Social Discrimination, Case Studies
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Moore, James R. – Social Studies, 2012
In this article, the author investigates the controversial curricular and instructional aspects of teaching about Islam in social studies courses. Specifically, the author discusses pedagogically sound approaches to teaching about "jihad" and "Shari'ah" law, two of the most important and controversial concepts in Islam that often generate intense…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Islam, Social Studies, Teaching Methods
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Laats, Adam – History of Education Quarterly, 2010
The world of private fundamentalist education grew prodigiously throughout the late 1970s and into the early 1980s. These schools needed curricular materials and guiding educational philosophies. The impassioned debates among leading fundamentalist educators directly affected the education of hundreds of thousands of students. Concern over the…
Descriptors: Day Schools, Educational Philosophy, Curriculum Development, Christianity
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Labidi, Imed – Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies, 2010
In the aftermath of the events of September 11, 2000, debate about Arab education as the new apparatus for religious fanaticism used by Arab extremist groups to entice hate and violence against the West took prominence in Western discourse. Considerable ink was spilled confusing hostile narratives in Arab curricula and the metaphors of identity…
Descriptors: Arabs, Foreign Countries, Politics of Education, Foreign Policy
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Antal, Carrie – Compare: A Journal of Comparative Education, 2008
This article explores the relationship between the propagation of religious nationalist citizenship discourses in classrooms and inter-religious conflict in the context of two developing democracies, India and Israel. The author concludes that students schooled in religious nationalist ideology in developing nations are at greater risk of…
Descriptors: Nationalism, Citizenship, Democracy, Religious Conflict
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Robison, Kristopher K.; Crenshaw, Edward M.; Jenkins, J. Craig, – Social Forces, 2006
We evaluate the argument that Islamist terrorist attacks represent a distinctive "4th wave" of transnational terrorism that has supplanted Leftist terrorism. Drawing on ITERATE data for 1968-2003, the annual count of Leftist attacks has declined since the end of the Cold War while Islamist attacks have persisted and spiked upward in 2002-03.…
Descriptors: Ideology, War, Terrorism, Violence