Threshold of Adversity: Resilience and the Prevention of Extremism Through Education
This article introduces the concept of ‘threshold of adversity’ as an, at present, tentative means of understanding the turning points to radicalization and extremism within educational systems. The conceptual frame is, we argue, of pedagogical and policy relevance across and beyond Nordic countries...
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| author | Saija Riikka Benjamin Liam Gearon Arniika Kuusisto Pia Koirikivi |
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| description | This article introduces the concept of ‘threshold of adversity’ as an, at present, tentative means of understanding the turning points to radicalization and extremism within educational systems. The conceptual frame is, we argue, of pedagogical and policy relevance across and beyond Nordic countries. Across Nordic countries, the main objective for the prevention of radicalization and extremism through education (PVE-E) is to strengthen the students’ resilience against ideological influences. Given the specialist complexities of the interdisciplinary research literature on terrorism, from which much PVE-E derives, for teachers and policy-makers, understanding the theoretical contexts, which underlie such policy innovations and their pedagogical implementation, are, understandably, problematic. To discuss extremism and the possibilities of its prevention especially in the education sector, an understanding of what exactly is being prevented or fought against is needed. Our conceptual ‘threshold of adversity’ model offers at least a starting point for a more practicable pedagogical implementation. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-78e1085143e64b138129b499fd9dfe322022-12-21T23:19:41ZengCappelen Damm Akademisk NOASPNordic Studies in Education1891-59492021-08-0141320121810.23865/nse.v41.2593nse.v41.2593Threshold of Adversity: Resilience and the Prevention of Extremism Through EducationSaija Riikka BenjaminLiam GearonArniika KuusistoPia KoirikiviThis article introduces the concept of ‘threshold of adversity’ as an, at present, tentative means of understanding the turning points to radicalization and extremism within educational systems. The conceptual frame is, we argue, of pedagogical and policy relevance across and beyond Nordic countries. Across Nordic countries, the main objective for the prevention of radicalization and extremism through education (PVE-E) is to strengthen the students’ resilience against ideological influences. Given the specialist complexities of the interdisciplinary research literature on terrorism, from which much PVE-E derives, for teachers and policy-makers, understanding the theoretical contexts, which underlie such policy innovations and their pedagogical implementation, are, understandably, problematic. To discuss extremism and the possibilities of its prevention especially in the education sector, an understanding of what exactly is being prevented or fought against is needed. Our conceptual ‘threshold of adversity’ model offers at least a starting point for a more practicable pedagogical implementation.https://noredstudies.org/index.php/nse/article/view/2593/5650threshold of adversityresilienceprevention of radicalization and extremism through education (pve-e)extremist mindsetmetacognition |
| spellingShingle | Saija Riikka Benjamin Liam Gearon Arniika Kuusisto Pia Koirikivi Threshold of Adversity: Resilience and the Prevention of Extremism Through Education Nordic Studies in Education threshold of adversity resilience prevention of radicalization and extremism through education (pve-e) extremist mindset metacognition |
| title | Threshold of Adversity: Resilience and the Prevention of Extremism Through Education |
| title_full | Threshold of Adversity: Resilience and the Prevention of Extremism Through Education |
| title_fullStr | Threshold of Adversity: Resilience and the Prevention of Extremism Through Education |
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| title_short | Threshold of Adversity: Resilience and the Prevention of Extremism Through Education |
| title_sort | threshold of adversity resilience and the prevention of extremism through education |
| topic | threshold of adversity resilience prevention of radicalization and extremism through education (pve-e) extremist mindset metacognition |
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