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Hjerm, Mikael; Johansson Sevä, Ingemar; Werner, Lena – International Studies in Sociology of Education, 2018
Previous studies identify a relationship between education and anti-immigrant attitudes. There is, however, uncertainty regarding the underlying explanations linking education to attitudes. In this article, we examine whether a relationship exists between exposure to teaching about critical thinking as well as multiculturalism (measured as…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, High School Students, Critical Thinking, Multicultural Education
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Brantefors, Lotta – Pedagogy, Culture and Society, 2015
The aim here is to describe and discuss how different cultural meanings, offered in education, can contribute to unjust cultural relations such as othering and xenophobia. By analysing the cultural and discursive content in curricula using a (neo)pragmatic curriculum theory research method, dominating ideas, values and discourses between 1948 and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Discourse Analysis, Content Analysis, Educational History
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Schierup, Carl-Ulrik; Alund, Aleksandra – Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies, 2011
In this essay, the authors venture into the convoluted reality of a contemporary Europe, which they fear that intellectual enterprises, unwittingly, underpin: an incipient European "plural society" marked by a xenophobic cultural branding of "the Other", the erosion of citizenship, urban revolts among disadvantaged youth, an…
Descriptors: Citizenship, Disadvantaged Youth, Cultural Pluralism, Foreign Countries