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

• Pubblicazione: Westport, Conn. : , : Praeger, , 2004; London : , : Bloomsbury Publishing (UK), , 2024
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (216 p.)
• Disciplina: 070.4/4990909767
• Soggetto topico: International education - United States; Islam - Public opinion; Multicultural education - United States; Public opinion - United States
• Altri autori: KincheloeJoe L SteinbergShirley R. <1952->
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: The miseducation of the West
• ISBN: 9798400686306; 9786612408861; 9781282408869; 1282408860; 9780313057755; 0313057753
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910974678303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Reverberations (Praeger Publishers)