Muslim educators in American communities

"Political rhetoric and popular concern about the presence in the United States of immigrants from predominantly-Muslim societies has remained largely detached from the actual reality of the lives and contributions of these immigrants and their children. The studies presented here seek to corre...

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Main Author Glenn, Charles Leslie, 1938- (Author)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bingley, U.K : Emerald Publishing Limited : Information Age Publishing, Inc., [2018]
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Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781806607730
DOI10.1108/978-1-64113-363-0
Physical Description1 online resource (266 pages)

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245 1 0 |a Muslim educators in American communities /  |c Charles L. Glenn. 
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504 |a Includes bibliographical references and index. 
505 0 |a Preface -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. The muslim presence -- Chapter 2. Islamic schools in the west -- Chapter 3. Moral framework of American Islamic schools -- Chapter 4. Developing private virtue -- Chapter 5. Teacher practice and student identity development / Munirah Alaboudi -- Chapter 6. Developing public virtue -- Chapter 7. Reflections on the moral ecology of Islamic schools -- Chapter 8. Conclusions and policy implications / Charles L. Glenn -- Chapter 9. Immigrant educational entrepreneurs: Measuring the performance of Turkish-founded charter schools / Robert Maranto, M. Danish Shakeel and Evan Rhinesmith -- Glossary -- References -- Index -- About the authors. 
506 |a Plný text je dostupný pouze z IP adres počítačů Univerzity Tomáše Bati ve Zlíně nebo vzdáleným přístupem pro zaměstnance a studenty 
520 |a "Political rhetoric and popular concern about the presence in the United States of immigrants from predominantly-Muslim societies has remained largely detached from the actual reality of the lives and contributions of these immigrants and their children. The studies presented here seek to correct this ignorant reaction by presenting objective information from schools that such immigrants have created and sustained. The first looked at seven explicitly-Islamic secondary schools, focusing on the formation of character and American citizenship, while the other studied public charter schools established by immigrants from Turkey, focusing on academic results"--  |c Provided by publisher. 
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