ERIC Number: EJ1386139
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2023-Jun
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ISSN: ISSN-0013-2004
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Recasting "Fundamental 'British' Values": Education, Justice, and Preventing Violent Extremism
Stevens, David
Educational Theory, v73 n3 p355-375 Jun 2023
Societies concerned with preventing acts of violent extremism often target the ideas that are thought to motivate such acts. The state's use of educational institutions is one mechanism by which those ideas are subjected to challenge. Teaching liberal democratic values to students is one method. Here, David Stevens argues that this model is misguided. First, commitment to violent methods is not primarily driven by the attractiveness of radical ideas themselves, but by material facts and circumstances. Second, an education that ignores the teaching of various socioeconomic values, such as a commitment to a certain degree of material equality and welfare provision, is inadequate as a conception of citizenship. These criticisms are related. Citizens are owed certain resources and commitments as citizens, and grounds for dissatisfaction and violence are reduced when citizens receive the holdings to which they are entitled, and when their fellow citizens recognize and endorse this. Consequently, it is the role of education to teach directively toward the adoption of such socioeconomic values and commitments.
Descriptors: Social Values, Terrorism, Prevention, Antisocial Behavior, Violence, Foreign Countries, Justice, Democratic Values, Teaching Methods, Socioeconomic Influences, Citizenship, Criticism, Social Differences, Role of Education, Welfare Services
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