Decolonising Education in Islamic West Africa
Secular Erasure, School Preference and Social Inequality
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Decolonising Education in Islamic West Africa
Secular Erasure, School Preference and Social Inequality
About this book
This book uses perceptions and experiences of Qur'anic schools in West Africa to outline a much-needed postsecular approach, reconsidering the place of Islamic education within African decolonial debates about educational pluralism, and the contributions of religious perspectives in academic and international development spaces.
Decolonial theory is used to overcome the challenges of problematic Eurocentric and colonialist stereotypes about religious actors and faith-based schools which persist within international education scholarship and global policy agendas. Through fine-grained ethnography, chapters discuss how parents and young people today engage with classical Qur'anic schools, Islamic schools and French-medium secular education in Senegal, thereby exposing inequalities around gender, descent-based or caste identities and socioeconomic status, as well as their influence on young people's pursuit of knowledge. These findings are valuable for scholars exploring the development-education-religion nexus and promoting Education for All in communities characterised by other-than-secular worldviews.
The book will be of interest to academics, researchers and postgraduate students working in the sociology of education, international education, anthropology and religious education. Practitioners involved in postcolonial and decolonial debates will also benefit from recommendations regarding educational reform in plural educational contexts.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Series
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- About the author
- Abbreviations
- Figures and tables
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Rethinking development, education and religion: A challenging nexus
- 2 A postsecular decolonial approach: Breaking the binaries
- Part I Secular bias in education policies: From colonisation to Education for All
- Part II Patterns of educational engagement in northern Senegal
- Part III Decolonising education in Islamic West Africa: From research to policy
- Note on orthography
- Glossary
- Index