Enhancing the Human Developmental Potential of Islamic Education in Plural Contexts: A Preliminary Conceptual Model

• In Event: 34.078 - Roundtable Session 13
  In Roundtable Session: 34.078-10 - Culture and Islamic Education

Abstract

This paper presents a preliminary model exploring ways to enhance human development in Islamic education contexts. Highlighting the key role that Muslim educators play in fostering both cultural reproduction and renewal, this model is framed by a sociocultural vision of education and features three components: First, strengthening social relationships in building classroom community; second, enriching extant social practices with developmentally-generative pedagogies, both intrinsic and extrinsic to the Islamic system; third, widening angles of mediation, dialogue, and inquiry to analyze shared and contested cultural tools, principles, and practices. The model draws upon themes from a larger sociocultural study that used participant observation and active interviewing to examine Muslim educators’ perspectives on human learning and development in a mosque school in Canada.

Author

• Claire Alkouatli, University of British Columbia