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Advocating for Muslim Students: If Not Us, Then Who?
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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
Becoming In/Competent Learners in the United States: Refugee Students' Academic Identities in the Figured World of Difference
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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
From Headphones to Hijabs: Cultural and Religious Experiences of Somali Youth in U.S. Schools
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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