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]
Subjects
Islamic education > United States.
Muslim educators > United States.
Muslims > Education (Secondary) > United States.
Ethnic schools > United States.
Education, Secondary > United States.
Education > Schools > Types > Religious.
Faith (religious) schools.
elektronické knihy
electronic books
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781806607730
DOI10.1108/978-1-64113-363-0
Physical Description1 online resource (266 pages)

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Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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