Confronting Islamophobia in Educational Practice

Edited by: Barry van Driel

ISBN: 9781858563404

Price: £19.99

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160 pages
228mm x 145mm
ISBN-10: 1 85856 340 2
ISBN-13: 978 185856 340 4
October 2004
Reprinted 2005

Confronting Islamophobia in Educational Practice looks at how the educational community in various nations is coming to grips with increased societal hostility towards Islam as a belief system and towards their Muslim populations. It examines the issue of Islamophobia, or fear of Islam, from a variety of perspectives. The background and academic articles help to contextualise this phenomenon, but the main thrust of the book is on educational practice and how schools, teachers, and students are coping with the stereotypes, prejudices and discrimination that are building up against Islam and its followers.

Contributors come from the US, UK, Netherlands, Austria, Germany, Italy, Australia and Israel. They include Pieter Batelaan, Michele Bertani, Irene Donohoue Clyne, Maurice Irfan Coles, Mouin Fahiraladin, Beth Finkelstein, Amber Haque, Yasemin Karakosoglu and Sigri Luchtenberg, J'Lein Liese, Robin Richardson, Shifra Sagy and Shoshana Steinberg, Fida Sanjakdar, Lorraine Sheridan.

This timely and important book will appeal to both academic readers seeking a theoretical and historical approach to the issue, and also to teachers and all those who are looking for methods to address the Islamophobia they encounter in their classrooms.

Contents

Chapter 1: Islamophobia in North America: confronting the menace - Amber Haque
Chapter 2: Curriculum, ethos and leadership: confronting Islamophobia in UK education - Robin Rchardson
Chapter 3: Islamophobia in German Educational Settings: actions and reactions - Yasemin Karakasoglu and Sigrid Luchtenberg
Chapter 4: Intercultural Education in Europe: a recent history of dealing with diversity and learning to live together - Pieter Batelaan
Chapter 5: The Subleties of Prejudice: how schools unwittingly facilitate Islamophobia and how to remedy this - J'Lein Liese
Chapter 6: Practical Educational Programming that confronts Islamophobia - Beth Finkelstein
Chapter 7: Muslims in Italy: social changes and educational practices - Michele Bertani
Chapter 8: Education and Islam: a new strategy - Maurice Irfan Coles
Chapter 9: Educational Choices for Immigrant Muslim Communities: secular or religious? - Irene Donahoue Clyne
Chapter 10: Developing an Appropriate Sexual Health Education Curriculum Framework for Muslim Students - Fida Sanjakdar
Chapter 11: Islamophobia before and after September 11th 2001 - Lorraine Sheridan
Chapter 12: Self in society and society in Self: encounters between Jewish and Arab students in Israel - Shifra Sagy, Shoshana Steinberg and Mouin Fahiraladin

Reviews

...widely relevant and nuanced in its understanding of the wider social issues surrounding Islamophobia in education. - The Muslim World Book Review

...issues of policy and teaching practices are addressed in a very readable fashion. - Rethinking Schools

This well-edited book deftly presents the state of affairs in many nations and offers strategies to combat the harmful words, actions, decisions, policies, and cultures and cultures of islamophobia. The strategies and countermeasures are not only for teachers and their students, but also for schools as a whole, for local education agencies, and even local and national governments. - Multicultural Review

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