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Shiva Zarabadi – Gender and Education, 2024
In this paper, I use posthumanism and autotheory to materialize the gendered, racialized and sexualized hair/her/stories of British-Muslim schoolgirls in my study. As an act of feminist indiscipline and a feminist transdisciplinary innovative practice, I entangle with those affective, material, embodied and embedded encounters and stories that…
Descriptors: Muslims, Females, Student Experience, Clothing
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Crnic, Aleš; Pogacnik, Anja – Center for Educational Policy Studies Journal, 2019
When discussing Religious Education, the topic of religious symbols in educational spaces is largely overlooked in academic literature and often side-lined in political considerations as well. This paper examines the issue of religious symbols in public schools by highlighting two foci: how the Muslim veil is managed in public schools in select…
Descriptors: Religion, Religious Factors, Religious Education, Public Schools
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Fancourt, Nigel – Oxford Review of Education, 2022
The courts' role in educational disputes is much researched, but while the legal and socio-political implications of judicial decisions are often scrutinised, judges' pedagogical assumptions have generally been overlooked. This paper focuses on educational competency by considering judges' understandings of the pedagogical effect of religious…
Descriptors: Civil Rights, Judges, Court Litigation, Religious Factors
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Megahed, Nagwa; Lack, Stephen – International Review of Education, 2011
One aspect of the call for democracy in the recent Arab region uprisings is the issue of women's rights and gender equality. Three cultural and ideological forces have continued to shape the gender discourse in Arab Muslim-majority societies. They are: "Islamic" teaching and local traditions concerning women's roles in a given society;…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Females, Democracy, Arabs
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Hamzeh, Manal Z.; Oliver, Kimberly – International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education (QSE), 2010
This paper explores the process of gaining research access into the lives of Muslim girls in the southwest USA. We discuss four emerging "entry markers" that challenged the process of gaining and sustaining access over a period of 14 months. These included being Muslim enough, being modest enough, "inshallah" ("Allah"…
Descriptors: Muslims, Females, Researchers, Feminism
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Haw, Kaye – Race, Ethnicity and Education, 2009
This paper is written as a return to the generation of young Muslim women who were participants in a piece of research carried just over a decade ago. Some of these original participants have been re-interviewed in 2007. The paper traces the shift in discourses around multiculturalism and identity, ethnicity and religion via two recent significant…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Muslims, Cultural Pluralism, Foreign Countries