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The educational intentions of the Islamic State through its textbooks

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  • Arvisais, Olivier
  • Bruyère, Marie-Hélène
  • Chamsine, Chirine
  • Mahhou, Mohamed Amine

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This article’s results are part of project Sami, which examines the school system imposed by Islamic State (ISIS) on the territories under its control between 2014 and 2017. It describes and explores ISIS’s educational intentions as formulated in the textbooks and workbooks the organization produced to frame how secular subjects were taught in primary schools. The results shed light on how ISIS describe its curriculum and analyzes what has been included in the Arabic, mathematics, science, geography, history and English textbooks. The article concludes that each of these school subjects has been used by ISIS to further its political and religious agenda, although in very different ways like militarization, banalization of violence and the establishment of its complex and extreme but also fragile Islamic doctrine. It also suggests possible courses of action, intervention and research for internally displaced children or children in detention who have experienced this alternative education system during wartime.

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  • Arvisais, Olivier & Bruyère, Marie-Hélène & Chamsine, Chirine & Mahhou, Mohamed Amine, 2021. "The educational intentions of the Islamic State through its textbooks," International Journal of Educational Development, Elsevier, vol. 87(C).
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:injoed:v:87:y:2021:i:c:s0738059321001590
    DOI: 10.1016/j.ijedudev.2021.102506
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    1. Zakariya Abu – Dabat, 2015. "Analyzing "Our Arabic language Textbooks" of the Last Grade of Primary Stage with Reference to Bloom’s Taxonomy of the Cognitive Objectives," International Journal of Academic Research in Progressive Education and Development, Human Resource Management Academic Research Society, International Journal of Academic Research in Progressive Education and Development, vol. 4(2), pages 86-104, April.
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    1. Gadais, Tegwen & Décarpentrie, Laurie & Touir, Ghada & Al-Khatib, Mazen & Daou, Alain & Chamsine, Chirine & Arvisais, Olivier, 2023. "Education under ISIS: An analysis of the calligraphy and illustrations of the physical education curriculum," International Journal of Educational Development, Elsevier, vol. 97(C).

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