Countering radical Islamist discourse through intertheological education: an Australian case study

Title: Countering radical Islamist discourse through intertheological education: an Australian case study
Creator: Lovat, Terence
Relation: Value Learning Trajectories: Theory, Method, Context p. 119-132
Relation: Research on Religious and Spiritual Education 10
Publisher: Waxmann Verlag GmbH
Resource Type: book chapter
Date: 2017
Description: The chapter will offer a critique of current attempts at school-based "Muslim de-radicalization" programs and propose instead that a curriculum intervention described as inter-theological education has unrealized potential to inform, challenge and impel dialogue and self-reflection about the theological dimension that, while denied by much Western-based scholarship, inevitably underlies at least part of radicalization motivation. It will be argued and justified that education of this sort would be aimed principally at the goals of holistic education but would also possess a potential spin-off effect of dealing better with "de-radicalization" issues than is the current experience in Australian schools. The chapter will offer indications of the ways in which the scope, content and methodology of such a program might be conceived and structured.
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1395966
Identifier: uon:33967
Identifier: ISBN:9783830936589
Language: eng

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