The Education, Extremism and Criticality conference, organised by the BERA Religious and Moral Education SIG in partnership with the Centre for Research and Evaluation in Muslim Education (CREME) at the UCL Institute of Education and Middlesex University was recently featured in Times Higher Education in an article written by Matthew Reisz.

The Education, Extremism and Criticality conference was held at UCL Institute of Education on Friday May 8, 2015. The conference explored the following questions: How do we define extremism? What is educational interest in extremism? Does the sympathy for extremism, religious and far-right, among some young people reflect the failure of liberal education to enable young minds to critically interrogate the siren calls of violent extremist voices? How has the neoliberalisation of mainstream education promoting a functionalist, market-orientated approach affected education’s capacity to build criticality? What is the relationship between official discourses, pedagogies and curricula of ‘citizenship’ and the lived experience of being a young British citizen?

To read the article titled “Universities turned into ‘major arena’ for counter-extremism, warns academic” please follow the below link

http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/news/universities-turned-into-major-arena-for-counter-extremism-warns-academic/2020249.article

Congratulations to the BERA Religious and Moral Education SIG and all partners for a successful event.