
Countering Right Wing Extremism in Education
Schooling in the Racist Badland
Routledge (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 30. July 2024
Book
Hardback
118 pages
978-1-032-76214-2 (ISBN)
Description
This book investigates how schools deal with racism and extremism, focusing on everyday life, students, and the surrounding community and geographical area.
There is a lack of clarity on how racism and extremism should be managed in schools. Through extensive ethnographical data, interviews, and focus group interviews with students and school staff in mill towns and racist strongholds in Sweden, this book focuses on how racism and right-wing extremism are enacted, played out, and dealt with. It draws on theories of everyday and institutional racism as well as institutional ethnography. Formal and informal school strategies and pedagogical interventions intended to manage recurring problems in schools are discussed. The text offers a deeper insight into how racism and right-wing/neo-Nazism extremism are enacted and confronted in a rural Swedish school context and beyond.
This book will be of interest to students of Terrorism Studies, Sociology, Cultural Studies, and Security Studies.
There is a lack of clarity on how racism and extremism should be managed in schools. Through extensive ethnographical data, interviews, and focus group interviews with students and school staff in mill towns and racist strongholds in Sweden, this book focuses on how racism and right-wing extremism are enacted, played out, and dealt with. It draws on theories of everyday and institutional racism as well as institutional ethnography. Formal and informal school strategies and pedagogical interventions intended to manage recurring problems in schools are discussed. The text offers a deeper insight into how racism and right-wing/neo-Nazism extremism are enacted and confronted in a rural Swedish school context and beyond.
This book will be of interest to students of Terrorism Studies, Sociology, Cultural Studies, and Security Studies.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Postgraduate, Professional Reference, and Undergraduate Advanced
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 12 mm
Weight
358 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-032-76214-2 (9781032762142)
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Christer Mattsson | Thomas Johansson | Jesper Andreasson
Countering Right Wing Extremism in Education
Schooling in the Racist Badland
Book
approx. 12/2025
1st Edition
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Christer Mattsson | Thomas Johansson | Jesper Andreasson
Countering Right Wing Extremism in Education
Schooling in the Racist Badland
E-Book
07/2024
1st Edition
Routledge
€60.49
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Christer Mattsson | Thomas Johansson | Jesper Andreasson
Countering Right Wing Extremism in Education
Schooling in the Racist Badland
E-Book
07/2024
1st Edition
Routledge
€60.49
Available for download
Persons
Christer Mattsson is an associate professor at the Segerstedt Institute at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden.
Thomas Johansson is Professor of Pedagogy at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. His recent publications include Youth Studies in Transition. Culture, Generation and New Learning Processes (2019); Marginalized Masculinities. Contexts, Continuities and Change (2017); and Fatherhood in Transition. Masculinity, Identity and Everyday Life (2017).
Jesper Andreasson is a professor in Sport Science at Linnaeus University, Sweden. His recent publications include Fatherhood in Transition. Masculinity, Identity and Everyday Life (2017), co-authored with Thomas Johansson.
Thomas Johansson is Professor of Pedagogy at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. His recent publications include Youth Studies in Transition. Culture, Generation and New Learning Processes (2019); Marginalized Masculinities. Contexts, Continuities and Change (2017); and Fatherhood in Transition. Masculinity, Identity and Everyday Life (2017).
Jesper Andreasson is a professor in Sport Science at Linnaeus University, Sweden. His recent publications include Fatherhood in Transition. Masculinity, Identity and Everyday Life (2017), co-authored with Thomas Johansson.
Author
University of Gothenburg, Sweden
University of Gothenburg, Sweden
Linnaeus University, Sweden
Content
1. Introduction 2. The social and symbolical heritage of the community 3. Life at the countryside 4. Teacher's images of students and their home environments 5. Everyday harassments and pedagogical strategies 6. Non-white students in a sea of whiteness 7. The return of the repressed - the doxa 8. The presence of conspiracy theories and the notion of the deep state 9. Democracy and the fostering of democratic values in school 10. Conclusions and discussion