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Record Nr.

UNINA9910974678303321

Titolo

The miseducation of the West : how schools and the media distort our understanding of the Islamic world / / edited by Joe L. Kincheloe and Shirley R. Steinberg

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Westport, Conn. : , : Praeger, , 2004

London : , : Bloomsbury Publishing (UK), , 2024

ISBN

9798400686306

9786612408861

9781282408869

1282408860

9780313057755

0313057753

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (216 p.)

Collana

Reverberations : cultural studies and education

Altri autori (Persone)

KincheloeJoe L

SteinbergShirley R. <1952->

Disciplina

070.4/4990909767

Soggetti

International education - United States

Islam - Public opinion

Multicultural education - United States

Public opinion - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [181]-198) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; 1 Introduction; 2 September 11, Terror War, and Blowback; 3 Loving Muslim Women with a Vengeance: The West, Women, and Fundamentalism; 4 Iran and American Miseducation: Cover-Ups, Distortions, and Omissions; 5 Consequences of Perceived Ethnic Identities; 6 The United States and Israel: Double Standards, Favoritism, and Unconditional Support; 7 The Great European Denial: The Misrepresentation of the Moors in Western Education; 8 Schooled to Order: Education and the Making of Modern Egypt

9 The New Bogeyman under the Bed: Image Formation of Islam in the Western School Curriculum and Media10 Desert Minstrels: Hollywood's Curriculum of Arabs and Muslims; Notes; Index; About the Editors and



the Contributors

Sommario/riassunto

The Miseducation of the West examines the ways in which educational institutions such as media and schools have shaped Western views of Islam. The nature of these messages tells readers as much, if not more, about Western self-images as they do about Islam and Islamic peoples. Quickly emerging is a Western perspective on the other. Westerners found easy justification for the colonial conquest of many Islamic lands. In the 18th, 19th, and early 20th centuries England, France, and to a lesser extent Russia colonized much of the Muslim world with the United States entering the picture after World