The Prevent Duty in Education

Impact, Enactment and Implications

Joel Busher, Lee Jerome, Joel Busher, Lee Jerome

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2020
• Print ISBN: 9783030455583
• eBook ISBN: 9783030455590
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Education General

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.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Front Matter
• 1. Introduction
• 2. Britain’s Prevent Strategy: Always Changing, Always the Same?
• 3. The Introduction of the Prevent Duty into Schools and Colleges: Stories of Continuity and Change
• 4. Student Perspectives on Teaching and the Prevent Policy
• 5. Enacting the Prevent Duty in Early Childhood Education Settings
• 6. Enacting the Prevent Duty in Primary Schools
• 7. Enacting the Prevent Duty in Secondary Schools
• 8. Enacting the Prevent Duty in Further Education
• 9. Conclusion: Reflections on the First Five Years of the Prevent Duty in Early Years, Primary, Secondary and Further Education
• Back Matter