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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.

Contributor(s): Series: Reverberations : cultural studies and education | Reverberations (Praeger Publishers)Publication details: Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2004.Description: viii, 208 p. ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0275981606 :
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • LC1090 .M49 2004
Contents:
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.

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

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.

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