Educated for change? : Muslim refugee women in the West

Educated for Change?: Muslim Women in the West inserts Muslim women's voice and action into the bifurcated, and otherwise male dominated, relations between the West and the Islamic East. A multilayered, multisite, educational ethnography, Buck and Silver's study takes a novel approach to i...

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Main Authors Buck, Patricia (Author), Silver, Rachel (Author)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bingley, U.K : Emerald Publishing Limited : Information Age Pub., [2012]
SeriesEducation policy in practice.
Subjects
Muslim women > Education > Western countries.
Women > Education > Western countries.
Muslim women > Social conditions.
Women refugees > Western countries.
Education > Philosophy, Theory & Social Aspects.
Educational strategies and policy: inclusion.
Philosophy and theory of education.
elektronické knihy
electronic books
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781806615605
DOI10.1108/978-1-61735-622-3
Physical Description1 online resource (xxv, 343 pages) : illustrations

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Table of Contents:
  • Foreword / Bradley A. U. Levinson and Margaret Sutton
  • Series editors' Introduction: Recentering the critical in sociocultural ethnographic studies / Rodney Hopson & Edmund T. Hamann
  • Chapter 1. In the confluence of Islamic east and west: Muslim girls and women in school
  • Chapter 2. Somalia: Tracing a contested traditionalism
  • Chapter 3. "if any culture is in need of change, it's Somali culture": Enlightenment and girls' and women's empowerment in the dadaab refugee
  • Chapter 4. Negotiating the dadaab landscape: Refugees respond to polarity in dadaab
  • Chapter 5. Somali refugee girls and women in school
  • Chapter 6. "The culture will change as the world changes": Using school to navigate the global era
  • Chapter 7. Dialogues of change
  • Chapter 8. Bridge: From dadaab to milltown
  • Chapter 9. The United States and milltown: Traditionalism, liberalism, & nativism
  • Chapter 10. Somali women in u.s. schools
  • Chapter 11. Crafting identity through community building
  • Chapter 12. "you better say your prayers before prayers are said for you": Negotiating and regulating gender change
  • Chapter 13. Educated for change?: Some concluding thoughts. Afterword: Final reflections on our project
  • References
  • About the authors.

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