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Awan, Imran – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2018
In 2014, the city of Birmingham (UK) became embroiled in a high-profile scandal that would bring it and the wider education system under disrepute. The 'Trojan Horse' affair, as it become known, began with an anonymised letter that claimed hard-line 'Islamists' were plotting and planning to take over a number of schools in Birmingham. Amongst the…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Muslims, Self Concept, Classification
Stadlbauer, Susanne – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This dissertation examines how women in the Muslim Student Association (MSA) at the University of Colorado at Boulder respond to the negative stereotypes of Islam and Muslims that have proliferated since 9/11. The media's positioning of Muslim women as "backwards" and "un-American" compels MSA women to construct an extensive…
Descriptors: Islam, Self Concept, Interviews, Personal Narratives
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Buchardt, Mette – British Journal of Religious Education, 2010
The article presents a curriculum-sociological study of "religion" in the classroom. More specifically, it is a study, inspired by Bernstein, Foucault and Bourdieu, that examines various forms of identity politics tied to "religion" and "culture" as these concepts unfold in the classroom in relation to knowledge…
Descriptors: Muslims, Religion, Social Differences, Classification