Full Description
In 2014 `Trojan Horse' affair, an alleged plot to `Islamify' several state schools in Birmingham, caused a previously highly successful school to be vilified.
Holmwood and O'Toole challenge the accepted narrative and draw on the potential parallel with the Hillsborough disaster to suggest a similar false narrative has taken hold of public debate.
This important book highlights the major injustice inflicted on the teachers and shows how this affair was used to criticise multiculturalism, and justify the expansion of a broad and intrusive counter extremism agenda.
Contents
Introduction: A plot to Islamicise schools?
Part 1: Context
`British values' and community cohesion
Prevent: from hearts and minds to muscular liberalism
Community cohesion, schooling and Prevent
Religious education, collective worship and publicly funded education
Governance, school reform and change management
Part 2: The case
Introducing the case
Enter Ofsted
The Clarke and Kershaw Reports
The NCTL hearings and their collapse
Conclusion: Lessons from the Trojan Horse affair
