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Author Thobani, Shiraz.

Title Islam in the school curriculum : symbolic pedagogy and cultural claims / Shiraz Thobani.

Publication Info. London ; New York : Continuum International Pub. Group, [2010]
©2010

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Description 1 online resource (269 pages)
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction ---- 1. Policy Contexts and Disputed Knowledge --- 2. Researching School-Based Islam --- 3. Tradition and Innovation in the Curriculum --- 4. Liberalism and Social Parity --- 5. State, Religion and Cultural Restoration --- 6. The Micropolitics of Representation --- 7. Symbolic Imaginings in State Schools --- 8. Creating the New Community --- 9. Politicized Islam and Civic Engagement --- 10. Recontextualized Culture and Social Implications.
Summary Islam in the School Curriculum explores the conceptualisation of school-based Islam on two levels: as a symbolic category in English religious education as a consequence of policy shifts, and as pedagogic discourse at the local community level in state and Muslim schools. Using recontextualisation theory, the author examines the relations between educational governance, social interests and cultural epistemology as they pertain specifically to symbolic constructs. In the aftermath of September 11 2001, the teaching of Islam has assumed geopolitical significance, coming under close scrutiny int.
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Subject Islam -- Study and teaching -- Great Britain.
Education -- Curricula -- Great Britain.
Education and state -- Great Britain.
Religion.
RELIGION -- Islam -- General.
Education and state. (OCoLC)fst00902835
Education -- Curricula. (OCoLC)fst00902556
Islam -- Study and teaching. (OCoLC)fst00979852
Great Britain. (OCoLC)fst01204623
Other Form: Print version: Thobani, Shiraz. Islam in the school curriculum. London ; New York : Continuum International Pub. Group, ©2010 9781441100078 (DLC) 2009035038 (OCoLC)432983484
ISBN 9781441140548 (electronic bk.)
1441140549 (electronic bk.)
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