Challenge of Radicalization and Extremism : Integrating Research on Education and Citizenship in the Context of Migration

This interdisciplinary volume on The Challenge of Radicalization and Extremism: Integrating Research on Education and Citizenship in the Context of Migration addresses the need for educational researchers to place their work in a broader social and political context by connecting it to the current and highly relevant issue of extremism and radicalization. It is just as important for researchers of extremism and radicalization to strengthen their conceptual links with educational fields, especially with education for democratic citizenship, as for researchers in education to get more familiar with issues of migration. This book meets a current shortage of research that addresses these issues across subjects and disciplines to inform both scientific and professional stakeholders in the educational and social sectors.

The volume is divided into three parts. The first part, Foundations, provides fundamental research on radicalization and the rejection of democratic values. In the second part, Analysis of Preconditions within the Educational Context, key risk and protective factors against radicalization for young people are explored. Finally, the third part, Approaches for Prevention and Intervention, offers concrete suggestions for prevention and intervention methods within formal and informal educational contexts. The contributions show how new avenues for prevention can be explored through integrating citizenship education’s twofold function to assimilate and to empower.

Eveline Gutzwiller-Helfenfinger is an associated researcher at the Interdisciplinary Center for Integration and Migration Research at the University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany, a senior researcher at the University of Fribourg and a lecturer for Developmental Psychology and Special Education at the University of Teacher Education of Schwyz, Switzerland. She is currently a working group leader in the COST Action 'Transnational Collaboration on Bullying, Migration and Integration at School Level' (TRIBES, CA 18115).

Hermann J. Abs holds the chair for Educational Research and Schooling at the University of Duisburg-Essen since 2013. He was the founding director of the Interdisciplinary Center for Integration and Migration Research (InZentIM) at the University of Duisburg-Essen and currently serves as the principal investigator for the IEA International Civic and Citizenship Study (ICCS 2022) in Germany.

Kerstin Göbel is a chair and full professor at the University of Duisburg-Essen since 2013 where she leads the Workgroup for Teaching Development. She is a member of the University Senate and the Executive Board of the Interdisciplinary Centre of Education of the University of Duisburg-Essen.