This project proposes a train-the-trainer professional development program for Volusia county’s secondary school educators to co-opt pedagogical tools and methods that challenge online violence mobilization narratives, increase awareness of violent extremist messaging and recruiting, and increase the capabilities of targeted populations to resist and counter messaging.
Project Details
Participants of Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University’s train-the-trainer seminars will identify problematic online and media messages that could lead to radicalization to violent extremism, critically evaluate the problematic assumptions, data, or logic of those messages, and develop pedagogical strategies for teaching their own students to recognize and critically evaluate those messages. This applicant fulfills the grant program priority to achieve diversity of project type.
Research Team
CO-Investigators
Ann Phillips
Associate Professor and Associate Chair
- Dept of Security Studies and International Affairs
- Daytona Beach College of Arts & Sciences
Daniel Gressang
Associate Professor
- Dept of Security Studies and International Affairs
- Daytona Beach College of Arts & Sciences
Matthew R. Sharp
Associate Professor
- Department of Humanities and Communication
- Daytona Beach College of Arts & Sciences
Mihhail Berezovski
Associate Professor and Director of Undergraduate Research
- Department of Mathematics
- Daytona Beach College of Arts & Sciences
Rachel Silverman
Adjunct Faculty, College of Arts and Sciences
- Department of Humanities and Communication
- Worldwide College of Arts & Sciences
Steven Master
Associate Professor and Program Coordinator
- Department of Humanities and Communication
- Daytona Beach College of Arts & Sciences