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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): Kincheloe, Joe L | Steinberg, Shirley R, 1952-Material type: TextTextSeries: Reverberations (Praeger Publishers): Publisher: Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2004Description: viii, 208 p. ; 25 cmISBN: 0275981606 (alk. paper); 9780275981600 (alk. paper)Subject(s): International education -- United States | Multicultural education -- United States | Islam -- Public opinion | Public opinion -- United StatesDDC classification: 070.4/4990909767 LOC classification: LC1090 | .M49 2004
    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.
    Scope and content: 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.
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    Includes bibliographical references (p. [181]-198) and index.

    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.

    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.

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