This open access book explores the enactment, impact and implications of the Prevent Duty across a range of educational contexts. In July 2015 the UK became the first country to place a specific legal requirement on those working in education to contribute to efforts to 'prevent people from being drawn into terrorism'. Drawing on extensive research with staff, children and young people, the editors and contributors provide new insight into how this high-profile - and highly contentious - policy has shaped educational practice in Britain today. It will be a valuable resource for researchers, policymakers and others interested in the design, implementation and on-the-ground effects of Prevent or similar programmes internationally that place education at the heart of efforts to prevent or counter violent extremism.
The Prevent Duty in Education: Impact, Enactment and Implications
Chapter 1. Introduction; Joel Busher and Lee Jerome.Chapter 2. Britain's Prevent Strategy: Always changing, always the same?; Paul Thomas.Chapter 3. The introduction of the Prevent Duty into schools and colleges: Stories of continuity and change; Joel Busher, Tufyal Choudhury and Paul Thomas.Chapter 4. Student perspectives on teaching and the Prevent policy; Alex Elwick, Lee Jerome and Hans Svennevig.Chapter 5. Enacting the Prevent Duty in early childhood education settings; Jenny Robson.Chapter 6. Enacting the Prevent Duty in primary schools; Raquel da Silva, Giuditta Fontana and Megan A. Armstrong.Chapter 7. Enacting the Prevent Duty in secondary schools; James Lewis.Chapter 8. Enacting the Prevent Duty in further education; Natalie James.