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Memorization and Focus: Important Transferables between Supplementary Islamic Education and Mainstream Schooling
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Berglund, Jenny; Gent, Bill – Journal of Religious Education, 2018
This article presents the results of a participative study, involving a group of 27 British Muslim students aged 15-18, who were given the opportunity to reflect on the implications of having participated in two different 'traditions' of education: that is, Muslim supplementary education (in its various forms) and state mainstream schooling. The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Muslims, Adolescents, Secondary School Students
Qur'anic Education and Non-Confessional RE: An Intercultural Perspective
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Berglund, Jenny; Gent, Bill – Intercultural Education, 2019
This article focuses on the reported experiences of Muslim students that regularly shift between Muslim 'supplementary education' (including its traditional confessional focus on learning to read Arabic and then memorise and recite the Qur'an) and mainstream school education (including its 'inclusive' form of religious education'). The aim has…
Descriptors: Islam, Religious Education, Muslims, Educational Experience
The World of the British "Hifz" Class Student: Observations, Findings and Implications for Education and Further Research
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Gent, Bill – British Journal of Religious Education, 2011
This article draws on ethnographic fieldwork that took place in 2004 in a boys' "hifz" class which met in a north-east London mosque. Drawing on the results of semi-participant observations and semi-structured interviews, the research findings are collated under five themes: the routines and rhythms of the "hifz" class; routes…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Muslims, Males, Student Attitudes