1st Edition
Ethnicity, Religion, and Muslim Education in a Changing World Navigating Contemporary Perspectives on Multicultural Schooling in the UK
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.
Foreword - Richard Race
Introduction - Karamat Iqbal and Tahir Abbas
1 Ethnicity, religion, and politics in the education of ethnic minorities and Muslims in post-war Britain - Tahir Abbas
2 Challenges of Muslimness: British Pakistani students in state schools - Saeeda Shah
3 From teacher training to school leadership - Imran Mogra
4 Racialisation, securitisation, and professionalisation of Muslim teachers: Life stories from Muslim teachers - Imran Mogra
5 Addressing Muslim needs - Karamat Iqbal, Sanum Khan, and Ron Skelton
6 Muslim pupils’ perspectives on racism, the curriculum, and British values - Alison Davies
7 Educating Muslim children: Developing a culturally responsive pedagogy - Aminul Hoque
8 At-home good parenting amongst the British Kashmiris - Karamat Iqbal
9 Multilingualism in the British Azad Kashmiri community - Farah Nazir
10 Understanding all our histories - Karamat Iqbal, Jasvir Singh, and Rajwinder Pal
11 Performing identity: The Pakistani migrant and the arts - Javeria Khadija Shah
12 The language of race in Britain - Joe Hopkinson
13 The diversity of diversities in religion and worldview education - Kevin O’Grady
14 Reporting of Trojan Horse - Peter Oborne
15 A participant voice on the Trojan Horse affair - David Hughes
16 Schools Linking: How do we all live well together? - Ruth Sinhal
Afterword - Ratha Perumal
Biography
Karamat Iqbal is Education and Equalities consultant and Director at the Forward Partnership consultancy, UK.
Tahir Abbas is Professor of Radicalisation Studies at the Institute of Security and Global Affairs at Leiden University in The Hague in the Netherlands.
