A Brief Review of Foreign Experience in Neutralising Radical Attitudes of Students

Abstract

The relevance of the topic is due to the exposure of young people to radical ideas because representatives of this social group have not yet signed a social contract with society. This statement is especially true for young people studying in universities, which is geographically concentrated in small locations, and is subject to much less control than, for example, school students. The purpose of this article is to make a brief overview of foreign experience in the  prevention of extremist  attitudes  among students. The article discusses the  experience of European countries such as Denmark, Austria, France and the United Kingdom. In Europe, the carriers of radical Islamism are considered as potentially dangerous elements, and it is against them  that prevention is carried out in educational institutions. However, with few exceptions, such prevention is formal and unlikely to produce systemic results. On the example of Turkey and China, we consider a different practice of prevention of radical moods, based on the total coverage of the preventable group. In the first case, purely administrative levers are used, in the second — the latest information technology. At the end of the article, the author concludes that European methods, which are suitable for Russia due to a similar structure of society, are less effective. At the same time, Chinese technologies, the reverse side of which is almost total information control over society using Big Data technologies, should be recognised as more effective. This picture resembles the structure of society described in the works of anti-utopians.