Muslim children in urban America: The New York city schools experience

Ahmad, Iftikhar; Szpara, Michelle Y.

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“…1 Discrimination is conceptualized as a range of stressors that include both explicit and implicit events experienced by individuals as well as structural prejudices. [4][5][6][7][8][9] This is also the case in Canada, where increased security concerns were associated with negative stereotypes, racial profiling, and heightened scrutiny of Muslims and Arab immigrants. [4][5][6][7][8][9] This is also the case in Canada, where increased security concerns were associated with negative stereotypes, racial profiling, and heightened scrutiny of Muslims and Arab immigrants.…”

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Perceived Discrimination and Its Association With Psychological Distress Among Newly Arrived Immigrants Before and After September 11, 2001

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“…Ahmad and Szpara (2003) found that young Muslims do not expect their peers to understand their faith and culture and that prejudice and negative stereotyping are common (p. 298). Recent events such as the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in the United States and the March 2004 French ban on religious dress in schools have brought Muslims into the scrutiny of the U.S. public eye.…”

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Tharp's Funnel: A Conceptual Framework for Teaching about Religious Pluralism in Potok'sMy Name is Asher Levand Zakiyyah'sIf I Should Speak

Huber-Warring

Bergman²

2007

Multicultural Perspectives

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“…13 Even when public school teachers were given information regarding Muslim beliefs and practices, Ahmad and Szpara found that little changed in regards to teachers' sensitivity toward their Muslim students and families. 14 In a study by Niyozov, teachers did not reject the idea of including Islamic culture and history in the curricula; however, the teachers questioned what information would be appropriate to include. 15 Other studies found that absent or biased curricula about Islam when coupled with unreceptive and uncaring instruction made learning difficult for Muslim students.…”

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(Mis) Understanding Islam in a Suburban Texas School District

Ezzani

Brooks

2015

Religion & Education

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This case study reports one Texas suburban school district's efforts to promote cultural proficiency after leadership trainings and explores how and in what ways this may or may not have improved school leaders' understanding ofIslam. Terrell and Lindsey's (2009) conceptual framework of Leadership and the Cultural Proficiency Continuum guided the inquiry, which was comprised of constructs that span from culturally destructive to proficient. Data collection included semi-structured interviews, focus group discussions, observations, and documents. The analysis of data revealed that the cultural proficiency trainings did and did not influence the cultural proficiency of educators working in the district. KEYWORDS cultural proficiency, Islam, leadership, Muslims, professional learningMiriam Ezzani teaches undergraduate and graduate students in the Department of Teacher Education and Administration at the University of North Texas. With academic and professional roots in urban education, her area of scholarship is in educational justice within the context of organizational leadership, professional learning, and district and school reform. She has served as a school administrator and prior to that as a literacy coach and teacher in the Los Angeles Unified School District. She is an alumna of the University of Southern California where she earned a Doctorate in K-12 Educational Leadership. Texas textbook publishers of having a 'pro-Islamic and anti-Christian bias' asserting that textbooks devote significantly more space to Islam than they do to Christianity. 5 These attitudes can create a schism in the relationship between educators and their Muslim students and families. 6 One way in which to allay these discrepancies is to ensure that districts develop avenues to promote religious competency in its teachers and leaders so that they can model respecting, accepting, and caring relationships. 7 The purpose of this research was to better understand one Texas school district's efforts to promote cultural competency and explore how and in what ways this may or may not have improved school leaders' religious proficiency toward Islam. The data for this article is taken from a larger study centered on a Texas school district's efforts to develop cultural proficiency, which included training on religious expression. In order to better understand the complexities of cultural competency in relation to minority religious understanding, we chose to focus on the perceptions leaders and teachers had about Islam. This study was led by the following research question: How do district leaders, principals, and teachers perceive Muslim students, Islam, and religious difference in one large suburban school district in Texas?This article begins with a brief overview of Islam in the United States followed by a review of the literature discussing Lindsey, Robins, and Terrell's 8 cultural proficiency 3 3 framework, which guided the study. We then present an overview of the school district in Texas where data collection occurred. After a rep...

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Muslim children in urban America: The New York city schools experience

Cited by 35 publications

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Perceived Discrimination and Its Association With Psychological Distress Among Newly Arrived Immigrants Before and After September 11, 2001

Perceived Discrimination and Its Association With Psychological Distress Among Newly Arrived Immigrants Before and After September 11, 2001

Tharp's Funnel: A Conceptual Framework for Teaching about Religious Pluralism in Potok'sMy Name is Asher Levand Zakiyyah'sIf I Should Speak

(Mis) Understanding Islam in a Suburban Texas School District

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