Radicalization, Education, Terrorism 

A high profile anti-radicalisation agenda in schools and other
educational institutions throughout Europe has risen in response to terrorist
attacks on European countries in the first decades of the twenty-first century. This
article looks critically at anti-radicalisation in education, arguing that it needs to
be placed in the broader context of ongoing neoliberal educational reform and
questioned not just in terms of its dubious efficacy in addressing terrorism, or the
civil rights harm it inflicts on Muslim and ethnic minority citizens in Europe, but
also as a direct attack on the centuries-old radical tradition in European education.
In particular, anti-radicalisation diverts attention from the analysis of structural
root causes of social problems, opposes the use of education for fundamental
social change, and stigmatises transformational educational practices that many
would argue are now vitally important in helping us collectively address a range
of contemporary global social, economic and environmental crises. 

17 p.; 24 cm