Abstract:

Extremism is defined as the state of adoption to the most extreme form of opinion or attitude. Young people can have excessive behavior. One of the biggest problems of the world in recent times is extremism. In Europe, especially religious motivated extremism and politically motivated extremism are increasing. Today, struggle with all kinds of extremism is important and efforts should be spent for this struggle. It is a requirement that teachers who train young people who are assurance of future must have enough knowledge about extremism behaviors. In this research, it's been aimed to investigate the opinions of teachers in Turkey and 5 member countries of European Union (Sweden, Italy, Hungary, Poland and Slovenia). 332 teachers (214 female, 118 male) participated to the research. As data collecting tool, the scale titled “opinions of teachers about extremism” was used. The results showed us that the teachers should have in-service training that may have title of "How to overcome extremism issue". The training can start with the definition of extremism and can go on with  the reasons of extremism, detection of student who are inclined to extremism and finally preparation and usage of educational materials to cope with extremism.

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