Episode

9/15 Nicole Nguyen: A Curriculum of Fear: Homeland Security in US Public Schools

September 15, 2016

Nicole Nguyen an Assistant Professor of Social Foundations of Education at the University of Illinois at Chicago and author of A Curriculum of Fear: Homeland Security in U.S. Public Schools, explains the relationship between national security and public schools. Programs that train public school students in national security and spying. Ways of thinking about security and the infusion of homeland security ideology and violence into public schools. Homeland Security and leveraging resources for “school reform”. What are the results of the Homeland Security program like and the effects of fear on young people.

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