1st Edition

Countering Right Wing Extremism in Education Schooling in the Racist Badland

124 Pages
by Routledge

124 Pages
by Routledge

124 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more

Chapter 1: Introduction

Chapter 2: The social and symbolical heritage of the community

Chapter 3: Life at the countryside

Chapter 4: Teacher’s images of students and their home environments

Chapter 5: Everyday harassment and pedagogical strategies

Chapter 6: Non-white students in a sea of whiteness

Chapter 7: The return of the repressed: The doxa

Chapter 8: The presence of conspiracy theories and the notion of the deep state

Chapter 9: Democracy and the fostering of democratic values in school

Chapter 10: Conclusions and discussion

Biography

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.