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Direct linkLeet-Otley, Jill – Diaspora, Indigenous, and Minority Education, 2020
Somali girls who veil are often misrepresented as being oppressed by a patriarchal culture. Research gathered from a critical ethnographic study with sixth grade Somali girls sheds light on their understanding of the hijab and their experiences with anti-Muslim discrimination. Findings reveal that the hijab provided a source of strength from which…
Descriptors: Clothing, Muslims, Females, Foreign Countries
Barakat, Maysaa – Journal of Educational Administration and History, 2018
The acrimonious and hateful rhetoric dominating the public and political arenas and the tide of division and nationalism gaining support in many parts of the world (Arnova et al. 2013. "Comparative education: the dialectic of global and local." Lanham, MD: Rowan & Littlefield) seem to be reflected in the US school system. As…
Descriptors: Muslims, Advocacy, Nationalism, Private Schools
Bal, Aydin; Arzubiaga, Angela E. – Urban Education, 2014
In this article, we report on an ethnographic study of figured worlds of resettlement and identities that Muslim refugee youth from the Russian Federation coconstructed in an urban school at the Southwestern U.S. border. In the school, multiple cultural-historical discourses came together within a global context: refugee families, a global Islamic…
Descriptors: Refugees, Success, Relocation, Academic Achievement
Bal, Aydin – International Multilingual Research Journal, 2014
A practice-based dialectic theory of identity was used in this study to explore the cultural-historical context of an urban charter school in which a group of newly arrived Muslim Turk refugee students' academic identities were formed. The school, located in the Southwestern United States, was founded by a global Islamist movement. Ethnographic…
Descriptors: Refugees, Special Education, Identification, English Language Learners
Basford, Letitia – Center for Educational Resources in Culture, Language and Literacy (CERCLL) (NJ3), 2010
Using data from a two year qualitative study, this paper examines how East African Muslim immigrant youth experience and become shaped by the environments of U.S. mainstream schools as compared to a culturally specific charter high school. Results from this study reveal that East African Muslim immigrant youth are affected by religious and…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Muslims, Immigrants, African Studies
Basford, Letitia – Journal of School Choice, 2010
Using data from a 2-year qualitative study, the author examines how East African Muslim immigrant youth experience and become shaped by the environments of U.S. mainstream schools compared with a culturally specific charter high school. Results from this study reveal that East African Muslim immigrant youth are affected by religious and cultural…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Muslims, Youth, Educational Environment
