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De-Pathologising Higher Education Curriculum

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Jihadi John (Mohammed Emwazi), a British citizen who graduated from Westminister University in London, was described as the most barbaric terrorist in the world (Mendick, 2015). Emwazi is allegedly responsible for beheading captives held by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) and was cast as yet another case of a higher education system that manufactured people damaged enough to hate (Sanghani, 2015).

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    Nyna Amin

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Pillay, M. (2016). De-Pathologising Higher Education Curriculum . In: Samuel, M.A., Dhunpath, R., Amin, N. (eds) Disrupting Higher Education Curriculum. Constructing Knowledge: Curriculum Studies in Action. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-896-9_7

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