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Low, Remy – Review of Education, Pedagogy & Cultural Studies, 2016
In this article, the author submits that the push for moderation and social cohesion through deradicalization is an inadequate response to violence inspired by the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) because it elides the political disaffections to which the group speaks. In advancing this argument, the author suggests that the rhetoric of ISIS…
Descriptors: Social Integration, Terrorism, Muslims, Violence
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Hameed, Saddam M.; Salih, Salih I. – Journal of Education and Practice, 2016
Aims of current research are to know the role of university curricula to moderate religious instruction and moral support for the students sections in Qoraan and Islamic science education from the standpoint of their teachers. The sample consisted of the faculty who are teaching curricula of Qoraan and Islamic education sections for the academic…
Descriptors: Moral Values, Religious Factors, Islam, Muslims
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Al Hamdany, Hayder; Picard, Michelle – Journal of Adult and Continuing Education, 2015
This paper explores the perceptions of Iraqi students of three different English Programs (a general English for academic purposes program, a pre-enrolment English program and the English component of a disciplinary bridging program) at an Australian University as reflected in their language learning narratives. It focuses specifically on the…
Descriptors: Personal Narratives, English for Academic Purposes, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Kaviani, Khodadad – International Journal of Progressive Education, 2009
This qualitative study was conducted in 2006-2007 and found that teachers relied on a variety of readily available media to stay informed about the Middle East and used some of them in their teaching. Teachers tried to explain to their students that every Middle Eastern Muslim is not a terrorist and Iraq was not behind the 9/11 terrorist attacks.…
Descriptors: Grounded Theory, Terrorism, Foreign Countries, Mass Media Effects
Dickler, Paul – Foreign Policy Research Institute, 2003
Discussion of terrorism and the war against it has remained front and center in American's lives and America's classrooms since September 11, 2001. The author suggests four areas for examining this subject from the perspective of the 18 months since the attack: (1) Iraq (Fighting the War, Results of the War and the "endgame," Iraq and…
Descriptors: Terrorism, National Security, World Affairs, Foreign Countries
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Metzger, Scott Alan – Social Education, 2005
The attacks of September 11th, followed by U.S. military actions in Afghanistan and Iraq, have brought greater attention to the simmering conflict between Islam and the West--a conflict most brutally played out historically during the Crusades. The series of holy wars for control of Jerusalem and the Holy Land stretched over centuries--from 1096…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Muslims, Films, Peace