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 ²ÝÝ®ÊÓƵ’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
- Security Studies and International Affairs Dept
- Daytona College of Arts & Sciences
Daniel Gressang
Associate Professor
- Security Studies and International Affairs Dept
- Daytona College of Arts & Sciences
Matthew R. Sharp
Associate Professor
- Humanities and Communication Department
- Daytona College of Arts & Sciences
Mihhail Berezovski
Associate Professor, Director of Undergraduate Research, and Program Coordinator for B.S. in Data Science
- Mathematics Department
- Daytona College of Arts & Sciences
Rachel Silverman
Adjunct Faculty, College of Arts and Sciences
- Department of Humanities & Communication
- Worldwide College of Arts & Sciences
Steven Master
Associate Professor and Program Coordinator for B.S. in Communication
- Humanities and Communication Department
- Daytona College of Arts & Sciences