Role of Coloniality Decoloniality and Education in Shaping Perspectives on Extremism

<p>This book extends a comprehensive overview of the treatment of extremism in education in Bangladesh using a study of perceptions among students to explore proactive measures for the prevention of various types and forms of extremism prevalent among youth.</p><p>It offers a critical holistic and student-centred study of the role of formal education in shaping perceptions of extremism and intersectional differences among individuals drawing on data from university students. The author employs post-colonial theory and multicultural educational approaches to highlight how understandings of extremism differ across young adults and policymakers. Ultimately it demonstrates that students’ overall understanding of extremism is much broader than that of policymakers and how understandings differ between male and female students at the intersection of rural and urban locations and socio-economic positions. As such it foregrounds a need to involve and organize formal education as a proactive means to raise awareness and counter all forms of extremism through incorporating specific teaching strategies into pedagogical practices to foster an anti-communalist humanistic critical multicultural and cosmopolitan outlook among students.</p><p>It will appeal to scholars and researchers with interests across multicultural education comparative and international education the sociology of education extremism and conflict and peace studies.</p>