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Neither Villains Nor Victims: Towards an Educational Perspective on Radicalisation Year of publication: 2015 Author: Stijn Sieckelincka, Femke Kaulingfreksb, Micha de Wintera This study questions whether the perspectives of security and intelligence serve educators well enough in the early stages of radicalization. Assigned to signal deviant behaviour, educators are unwittingly drawn into a villain-victim imagery of their students. This imagery seems to impede a genuine educational outlook on radicalization. Key notions of this outlook may be ‘critically addressing ideals’ and ‘forming pedagogical coalitions’. 
Discussing Terrorism: a pupil-inspired guide to UK counter-terrorism policy implementation in religious education classroom in England Year of publication: 2016 Author: Angela Quartermaine Corporate author: Christian Education | Taylor & Francis Religious education (RE) in England is affected by the challenging of terrorist ideologies and improving community cohesion, but many RE teachers feel ill-equipped in dealing with the issues that might arise from terrorism discussions. Therefore, I suggest that clarification could help alleviate some of the teacher’s concerns and help provide routes by which critical RE teaching and learning can take place. 
Teaching Controversial Issues in the Classroom: Key Issues and Debates Year of publication: 2012 Author: Paula Cowan, Henry Maitles Corporate author: Continuum The book provides an exploration of current debates and controversies relating to teaching controversial issues in primary and secondary schools. It investigates the changing nature of this type of learning experience and explore its contribution to the curriculum, particularly history and citizenship education. Topics covered include: - What is the 'right' age to discuss controversial issues? - The Citizenship Agenda - Discussing Iraq with school students - Teaching the Holocaust in the multicultural classroom – Islamophobia. International case studies provide fresh insights and valuable student and teacher feedback regarding the teaching of what many perceive as sensitive and difficult subjects. 
Educating Against Extremism Year of publication: 2012 Author: Dianne Gereluk Extremism is a huge concern across the world right now, fueled by its links to terrorism and religious fundamentalism. This book explores the relationship of education to extremism and examines how education could counter its more dangerous forms. Lynn Davies proposes a very different educational strategy to the conventional tolerant multiculturalism that pertains in the west. The task – a challenging one – is to politicize young people without cementing uncritical acceptance of single truths. 
Resilience, violent extremism and religious education Year of publication: 2013 Author: Joyce Miller This article is an attempt to provide an educational justification for the British Government-funded project REsilience, on addressing contentious issues through religious education (RE), which was carried out by the RE Council of England and Wales. A number of issues relating to the inclusion of religiously inspired violent extremism in the curriculum are raised – definitional, political and educational. 
Education and Security - a global literature review on the role of education in countering violent religious extremism Year of publication: 2016 Author: Ratna Ghosh | Ashley Manuel | W.Y. Alice Chan | Maihemuti Dilimulati | Mehdi Babaei This review demonstrates that the impact of the worldwide proliferation of violent attacks motivated by religious extremism threatens both national and personal security irrespective of location or faith. Education has been particularly damaged by direct attacks on institutions, by the removal of educational opportunity, and by the use of education to indoctrinate and recruit young people. This review suggests that more young people today are being radicalized through soft power – extremist ideas, ideology, narratives and propaganda. It questions whether this can be met adequately by hard power responses, as these methods appeal directly to the psychological, intellectual and emotional states of young people. 
Education, Extremism and Terrorism: What should be Taught in Citizenship Education and Why Year of publication: 2012 Author: Dianne Gereluk Should educators be exploring terrorism and extremism within their classrooms? If so, what should they be teaching, and how? Dianne Gereluk draws together the diverging opinions surrounding these debates, exploring and critiquing the justifications used for why these issues should be addressed in schools. She goes on to consider the ways in which educators should teach these topics, providing practical suggestions. 
Work that Matters: The Teacher’s Guide to Project-Based Learning Year of publication: 2012 Corporate author: Paul Hamlyn Foundation A guide on project-based learning and advice for teachers, published by the Learning Futures Special Initiative in partnership with the Innovation Unit.Developed by the Learning Futures project in partnership with High Tech High, this guide offers step-by-step advice on planning and managing extended, interdisciplinary projects, as well as useful protocols for critique sessions, templates for important documents such as project plans, and examples of high-impact projects. 
Rivers of the World Education Pack Year of publication: 2015 Author: Alison Willmott Corporate author: British Council This education resource pack extends the project’s reach to a much greater number of schools and provides a wealth of exciting cross-curricular activities for pupils aged 7–14. It is designed to expand knowledge and understanding, help your pupils to develop core skills and encourage them to explore and reflect on local and global issues. It also contains examples of artwork from the project and illustrations of how schools around the world have used the resources with their students. 
Climate Equality: A Planet for the 99% Year of publication: 2023 Author: Ashfaq Khalfan | Astrid Nilsson Lewis | Carlos Aguilar | Max Lawson | Safa Jayoussi | Jacqueline Persson | Nafkote Dabi | Sunil Acharya Corporate author: Oxfam International The world faces twin crises of climate breakdown and runaway inequality. The richest people, corporations and countries are destroying the world with their huge carbon emissions. Meanwhile, people living in poverty, those experiencing marginalization, and countries in the Global South are those impacted the hardest. Women and girls, Indigenous Peoples, people living in poverty and other groups experiencing discrimination are particularly at a disadvantage. The consequences of climate breakdown are felt in all parts of the world and by most people, yet only the richest people and countries have the wealth, power and influence to protect themselves. With that power comes huge responsibility.If no action is taken, the richest will continue to burn through the carbon we have left to use while keeping the global temperature below the safe limit of 1.5°C, destroying any chance of ending poverty and ensuring equality. The world needs an equal transformation. Only a radical reduction in inequality, transformative climate action and fundamentally shifting our economic goals as a society can save our planet while ensuring wellbeing for all.