Description
This novel and contemporary anthology brings important topics about race, religion, and identity to the foreground to address the challenges facing Muslim schoolchildren today.
Through interviews and case studies, the chapters explore topics such as multiethnic education, teacher diversity, and culturally responsive pedagogy, providing insights into necessary changes and ways to enhance schools. Taking into account cultural touchstones such as the Black Lives Matter movement and the Trojan Horse affair, the book argues for an urgent, transformative accommodation of Muslims to take place within schooling in order to improve the educational standards of Muslim children within the United Kingdom, including several chapters that focus on Muslim education in locations such as Yorkshire, Peterborough, High Wycombe, and Tower Hamlets, and further afield.
This book will be of importance to scholars, researchers, and postgraduate students studying religious education, secondary education, and multicultural education more broadly. Policymakers interested in education policy and politics, as well as race and ethnicity in educational contexts, may potentially benefit from the volume.
Table of Contents
Foreword
Introduction
2 Challenges of Muslimness: British Pakistani Students in State Schools
3 From teacher training to school leadership
5 Addressing Muslim needs
6 Muslim pupils’ perspectives on racism, the curriculum, and British values
7 Educating Muslim children: Developing a culturally responsive pedagogy
8 At-home good parenting amongst the British Kashmiris
9 Multilingualism in the British Azad Kashmiri Community
10 Understanding all our histories
11 Performing Identity: The Pakistani Migrant and the Arts
12 The language of race in Britain
13 The diversity of diversities in religion and worldview education
14 Reporting of Trojan Horse
15 A Participant voice on the Trojan Horse affair
16 Schools Linking: How do we all live well together?
Afterword
