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Record Nr.

UNINA9910459863403321

Autore

Thobani Shiraz

Titolo

Islam in the school curriculum : symbolic pedagogy and cultural claims / / Shiraz Thobani

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, England : , : Bloomsbury Academic, , 2020

London, England : , : Bloomsbury Publishing, , 2020

ISBN

1-350-09135-9

1-282-55205-8

9786612552052

1-4411-4054-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (278 p.)

Disciplina

297.07/041

Soggetti

Islam - Study and teaching - Great Britain

Education - Curricula - Great Britain

Education and state - Great Britain

Curriculum planning & development

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- 1 Policy Contexts and Disputed Knowledge -- 2 Researching School-Based Islam -- 3 Tradition and Innovation in the Curriculum -- 4 Liberalism and Social Parity -- 5 State, Religion and Cultural Restoration -- 6 The Micropolitics of Representation -- 7 Symbolic Imaginings in State Schools -- 8 Creating the New Community -- 9 Politicized Islam and Civic Engagement -- 10 Recontextualized Culture and Social Implications.

Sommario/riassunto

"Islam in the School Curriculum explores the conceptualisation of school-based Islam on two levels: as a symbolic category in English religious education as a consequence of policy shifts, and as pedagogic discourse at the local community level in state and Muslim schools. Using recontextualisation theory, the author examines the relations between educational governance, social interests and cultural epistemology as they pertain specifically to symbolic constructs. In the



aftermath of September 11 2001, the teaching of Islam has assumed geopolitical significance, coming under close scrutiny internationally. Much of this attention has been directed at madrasas in Muslim countries, yet Islam in schooling contexts in the West has remained a blind-spot. In the UK, heightened anxieties about "home-grown" terrorists point to the need for a better understanding of Islam in both state and faith schools. Shiraz Thobani explores the role played by national and local policies and pedagogic practices in the production of school-based Islam in a secular, liberal context and makes an important contribution to the sociology of the curriculum and the study of religious education."--

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910148904203321

Autore

Morpurgo Michael <1943->

Titolo

Toro! Toro!

Pubbl/distr/stampa

HarperCollins UK

ISBN

0-00-745893-2

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Musica

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

Best-selling author Michael Morpurgo turns his storytelling skills to the drama and tragedy of the Spanish Civil War, read by Christopher Barlow.TORO! TORO! is the story of a young boy growing up in Andalucia, Spain, on a farm rearing bulls for the bull ring. Antonito hand-rears a little black calf, but the boy doesn't yet understand the fate of the black bulls - the corrida and death. Later, learning of the horrors of the bull fight, he frees Paco, and rides with him into the hills. There they witness the beginning of the Spanish Civil War and Antonito is left alone - his family and the farm are destroyed by bombs, and Paco has run off, wild with fright. He decides to stay in the hills, where he joins the Resistance fighters. Around the campfire, Antonito hears



tales of the wonderful black bull, who becomes a symbol of freedom for them all. Could this really be Paco? One night, Antonito falls asleep and dreams of Paco. In the morning, he wakes to see hoof prints on the ground beside him...A delightful story, full of nostalgia and drama in the author's own inimitable style. Illustrated by Michael Foreman.