Countering Extremism in British Schools?: The Truth about the Birmingham Trojan Horse Affair

Countering Extremism in British Schools?: The Truth about the Birmingham Trojan Horse Affair

by John Holmwood (Author)

Synopsis

In 2014 an investigation into an alleged plot to `Islamify' several state schools in Birmingham began. Known as the `Trojan Horse' affair, this caused a previously highly successful school to be vilified. Holmwood, an expert witness in the professional misconduct cases brought against the teachers, and O'Toole, who researches the government's counter-extremism agenda, challenge the accepted narrative and draw on the potential parallel with the Hillsborough disaster to suggest a similar false narrative has taken hold of public debate. This important book highlights the major injustice inflicted on the teachers and shows how this affair was used to criticise multiculturalism, and justify the expansion of a broad and intrusive counter extremism agenda.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 296
Edition: 1
Publisher: Policy Press
Published: 29 Nov 2017

ISBN 10: 1447344138
ISBN 13: 9781447344131

Media Reviews
A compelling alternative analysis of the `Trojan Horse' affair, shining much-needed light on a serious but neglected vector of educational inequality in the UK. Reza Gholami, University of Birmingham
Author Bio
John Holmwood is Professor of Sociology at the University of Nottingham, having previously been at the University of Birmingham. From 2012 to 2014, he was President of the British Sociological Association and in 2014/15, he was Member of the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, USA. He acted as an Expert Witness to the Court in the National College for Teaching and Leadership hearings against teachers arising from the Trojan Horse affair. Therese O'Toole is Reader in Sociology at the University of Bristol and a member of the Centre for the Study of Ethnicity and Citizenship, where she works on ethnicity, religion, governance and political participation. She led a major ESRC/AHRC study of Muslim Participation in Contemporary Governance that examined the impact of the Prevent agenda on state-Muslim engagement in the UK at the national level and in 3 case-study areas: Birmingham, Leicester and Tower Hamlets, and an AHRC Connected Communities study of the local implementation of Prevent in Bristol.