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School Principals' Diversity Ideologies in Fostering the Inclusion of Muslims in Finnish and Swedish Schools
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Rissanen, Inkeri – Race, Ethnicity and Education, 2021
Mainstream scholarly approaches to improving equity in education, including culturally responsive education, promote multicultural recognition of diversity and abandon color-blindness as an ineffective strategy. The social psychological literature affords a more nuanced understanding of the merits of different diversity ideologies. However, these…
Descriptors: Principals, Administrator Attitudes, Equal Education, Culturally Relevant Education
Negotiations on Inclusive Citizenship in a Post-Secular School: Perspectives of "Cultural Broker" Muslim Parents and Teachers in Finland and Sweden
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Rissanen, Inkeri – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2020
This study examines negotiations on Muslims' inclusive citizenship in Finnish and Swedish comprehensive schools. The data include interviews with Muslim parents and Muslim teachers (n = 8 in both countries), who serve as cultural brokers in public schools and mediate negotiations on the terms of inclusion. The study utilizes the notion of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Muslims, Citizenship, Public Schools
A Comparative Study of How Social Cohesion Is Taught in Islamic Religious Education in Finland and Ireland
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Rissanen, Inkeri; Sai, Youcef – British Journal of Religious Education, 2018
Based on classroom observations and semi-structured interviews with teachers, parents and students, this comparative study looks at how social cohesion is promoted in Islamic Religious Education (IRE) lessons in Muslim schools in Ireland and non-faith schools in Finland. The study analyses teaching in the following areas: intra-religious cohesion;…
Descriptors: Religious Education, Islam, Social Integration, Teacher Attitudes
What Kind of Tensions Are Involved in the Pedagogical Use of Religious Narratives? Perspectives from Finnish Evangelic Lutheran and Islamic Religious Education
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Keränen-Pantsu, Raili; Rissanen, Inkeri – Journal of Beliefs & Values, 2018
In this article, we examine how narratives of religious traditions are used as resources in religious education (RE) and compare practices from Evangelic Lutheran religious education (LRE) and Islamic religious education (IRE) in Finnish public schools. The sacredness of narratives from holy books entails that there can be contestations over their…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Islam, Religious Education, Christianity
Developing Religious Identities of Muslim Students in the Classroom: A Case Study from Finland
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Rissanen, Inkeri – British Journal of Religious Education, 2014
In the Finnish National core curricula for religions, the aims of religious socialisation have been replaced with aims of personal identity development. This shift of aims is also prevalent in many other countries, but the practical implications of it are not clear. This paper presents the results of a case study examining different ways of…
Descriptors: Religion, Self Concept, Muslims, Foreign Countries
Teaching Islamic Education in Finnish Schools: A Field of Negotiations
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Rissanen, Inkeri – Teaching and Teacher Education: An International Journal of Research and Studies, 2012
The challenges of contemporary multicultural societies have resulted in changing aims for religious education and the necessity to adjust teacher education accordingly. The processes of negotiation related to the coexistence of different religious and cultural groups are intertwined in the Finnish curriculum for religious education. This case…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Islamic Culture, Islam, Religious Education