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The miseducation of the West : how schools and the media distort our understanding of the Islamic world
- Title
- 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.
- Publication
- Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2004.
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- Description
- viii, 208 pages; 25 cm.
- Summary
- This collection of essays examines how schools and the media have shaped Western views of Islam. Written by an international group of educators with diverse viewpoints. xdita.
- Series Statement
- Reverberations : cultural studies and education
- Uniform Title
- Reverberations (Praeger Publishers)
- Subject
- International education > United States
- Multicultural education > United States
- Islam > Public opinion
- Public opinion > United States
- Foreign policy
- International education
- Islamic culture
- Mass media role
- Mass media use
- Misconceptions
- Multicultural education
- Multiculturalism
- Public opinion
- Communications
- 05.30 mass communication and mass media: general
- 11.84 Islam: other
- International education
- Islam > Public opinion
- Multicultural education
- Public opinion
- Interkulturelle Erziehung
- Islam
- Öffentliche Meinung
- Islam
- Beeldvorming
- Internationaal onderwijs
- Publieke opinie
- International education > United States
- Multicultural education > United States
- Islam in mass media
- Public opinion > United States
- Islam > Relations
- Media Studies
- United States
- USA
- Genre/Form
- Aufsatzsammlung.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [181]-198) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction / Joe L. Kincheloe -- September 11, terror war, and blowback / Douglas Kellner -- Loving Muslim women with a vengeance : the West, women, and fundamentalism / Loubna Skalli -- Iran and American miseducation : cover-ups, distortions, and omissions / Joe L. Kincheloe -- Consequences of perceived ethnic identities / Christopher D. Stonebanks -- The United States and Israel : double standards, favoritism, and unconditional support / Mordechai Gordon -- The great European denial : the misrepresentation of the Moors in Western education / Haroon Kharem -- Schooled to order : education and the making of modern Egypt / Yusef J. Progler -- The new bogeyman under the bed : image formation of Islam in the Western school curriculum and media / Ibrahim Abukhattala -- Desert minstrels : Hollywood's curriculum of Arabs and Muslims / Shirley R. Steinberg.
- ISBN
- 0275981606
- 9780275981600
- LCCN
- 2004003790
- OCLC
- ocm54536659
- 54536659
- SCSB-8911951
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library