Muslim Students, Education and Neoliberalism

Schooling a 'Suspect Community'

Máirtín Mac an Ghaill, Chris Haywood, Máirtín Mac an Ghaill, Chris Haywood

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2017
• Print ISBN: 9781137569202
• eBook ISBN: 9781137569219
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Education Theory & Practice
• Index: Social Sciences

This edited collection brings together international leading scholars to explore why the education of Muslim students is globally associated with radicalisation, extremism and securitisation. The chapters address a wide range of topics, including neoliberal education policy and globalization; faith-based communities and Islamophobia; social mobility and inequality; securitisation and counter terrorism; and shifting youth representations. Educational sectors from a wide range of national settings are discussed, including the US, China, Turkey, Canada, Germany and the UK; this international focus enables comparative insights into emerging identities and subjectivities among young Muslim men and women across different educational institutions, and introduces the reader to the global diversity of a new generation of Muslim students who are creatively engaging with a rapidly changing twenty-first century education system.  The book will appeal to those with an interest in race/ethnicity, Islamophobia, faith and multiculturalism, identity, and broader questions of education and social and global change.

Table of contents

• Muslim Students, Education and Neoliberalism
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Dangerous Radicals or Symbols of Crisis and Change: Re-theorising the Status of Muslim Boys as a Threat to the Social Order
• 3 Late-Modern Muslims: Theorising Islamic Identities Amongst University Students
• 4 Education of Muslim Students in Turbulent Times
• 5 Factoring-in Faith Fairly: A Contribution from Critical Realism to the Authentic Framing of Muslims-in-Education
• 6 Towards Multi-cultural, Multi-religious European Societies? Schooling Turkish Students in Britain and Germany
• 7 ‘Uncivil’ Activism: Arab, South Asian, and Afghan American Youth Politics after 9/11
• 8 Schooling the Enemy Within: Politics and Pedagogy
• 9 The Prevent Policy and the Values Discourse: Muslims and Racial Governmentality
• 10 Islamophobia in Quebec Secondary Schools: Inquiries into the Experiences of Muslim Male Youth Post-9/11
• 11 At the Intersection of Neo-liberalism and Islam: Being a Muslim Woman in Turkish Universities
• 12 Being Uyghur or Being Muslim? – Identity Construction of Tertiary-Level Uyghur Students in China
• 13 Educating Muslim Students: Late Modernity, Masculinity, Inclusion/Exclusion and the Neo-liberal School
• 14 Muslim Narratives of Schooling in Britain: From ‘Paki’ to the ‘Would-Be Terrorist’
• Index