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This reproduction is the best copy available MUSLIM STUDENTS M PUBLIC SCHOOLS: EDUCATION AND THE POLITICS OF RELIGIOUS IDENTITY Jasmin Zine A thesis submitted in conformity with the requirements for the degree of Master of Am Department of Sociology in Education Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto O Copyright by Jasmin Zine 1997 National Library Bibliothèque nationale l*l ofma, du Canada Acquisitions and Acquisitions et Bibliographic Services services bibliographiques 395 Wellington Street 395. we Wellington Ottawa ON KIA ON4 Ottawa ON K1A ON4 Canada Canada The author has granted a non- L'auteur a accordé une licence non exclusive licence allowing the exclusive permettant à la National Library of Canada to Bibliothèque nationale du Canada de reproduce, loan, distribute or sell reproduire, prêter, distribuer ou copies of this thesis in microfom, vendre des copies de cette thèse sous paper or electronic formats. la forme de microfiche/film, de reproduction sur papier ou sur fonnat électronique. The author retains ownership of the L'auteur conserve la propriété du copyright in this thesis. Neither the droit d'auteur qui protège cette thèse. thesis nor substantial extracts fiom it Ni la thése ni des extraits substantiels may be printed or otherwise de celle-ci ne doivent être imprimés reproduced without the author's ou autrement reproduits sans son permission. autorisation. In the Name of AHah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. ACKNOnEDGEMENTS I am veIy grateful to al1 of the participants in this study,for sharing their experiences with such generosity and candour. It is their stories which guide this research. and 1 have appreciated their support and cooperation greatly. 1 would aiso like to thank Professor George Dei, for dl of his intellectual and moral support throughout my graduate school experience. My appreciation and thanks also to Professor Sherene Razack. as second reader for the thesis. Also a special thanks to Aisha Rana. for her help in transcribing some of the data for this study. Most of dl, 1 am especially grateful to my family, my husband, Abdullah, and my sons, Usama and Yusuf, who have supported me in every way throughout this long, often frustrating joumey. And so I would like to dedicate this work to them for their love, patience and understanding. Jazakumu Allahu Khairun. This study uses ethnographie research methods to examine Sunni Muslim students and their expenences as a religious minonty in the public school system in Canada. Dominant noms and values are encoded into school policies, practices and curriculum. Many of these create areas of contention for Muslims. For Muslim students. the fundamental incompatibility between Islamic ideology and praxis and the secular public school system can create dissonance, alienation, and in many cases, a desire to conform to the cultural practices within schools and society. at the expense of an Islamic way of life. This study. however. focuses on those students who strive to maintain an Islamic identity and iifestyle and will examine how this informs their educational experiences. The focus will also be upon how education has become an arena for contemporary cultural politics, and how Muslims use their religious identities to challenge Eurocentrism in school policies practices, and cumculum. MUSLIM STUDENTS IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS: EDUCATION AND THE OF WLIGIOUS IDENTITY TABLE OF CONTENTS 1.INTRODUCTION ......................................... 1 1.1 Mapping the Thesis ............................. .... 7 1.2 Literature Review .............................. ..... 10 1.3 Redefming Resistance: Toward an Islamic Sub-Culture in Schools ................................. 25 1.4 Historical Background of Muslim Presence and Islam in North America ......................... .... 36 1.5 Methodology: The Making of an Ethnography .......... 38 2.ISLAMIC IDENTITY : THEORY AND PRACTICE............... 44 2.1 Theoretical Dimensions of Islamic Identity: Locating the Discourse .................................. 44 2.2 Living Islam: Narratives on the Practice and Meaning of Islamic Identity ............................ 52 3.3 Being Canadian and Being Muslim ................... 62 2.4 Double Cultures. Double Lives: The Split Personality Syndrome .................................... 65 3.VEILED SENTIMENTS: UNCOVERING THE MEANING OF mAB ........................ 73 3.1 Subjective Constructions of Hijab .................. 76 3.2 Extemal Perceptions of Hijab ...................... 83 4. STAYING ON THE 'STRAIGHT PATH': CHALLENGES CONFRONTING MUSLiMS IN CANADIAN SOCIETY ................. 93 4.1 Peer Pressure ...................................... 98 4.2 Mixing .......................................... 108 4.3 Racism. Discrimination and Schooling ............... 114 S.IDEOLOGY, REPRESENTATLON AND STRATEGIES OF FORMALIZED RESISTANCE................... ., ....................... 133 5.1 Cumculum and Representation ...................... 133 5.2 Inclusive Practices................................ 142 5.3 Formalized Resistance............... .. ........... 150 6.SCHOOL AND COMMUMTY PARTNERSHIPS..................... 160 6.1 From Social Research to Social Action: The Journey Continues................................... 166 6.2 Conclusion ....................................... 17 1 REFERENCES ............................................. 175 APPENDIX I ................................... .... 181 APPENDIX II ......................... .... ...185 CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION Reconstructing social reaiities through the ethnographie process, is an exercise in deciphering and decoding the meanings which positioned subjects assign to various facets of their lives as social and cultural beings. As critical researchers, our own location as a positioned subject, is an inherently political space through which we interpret social reality from our own culturally-mediated and histori~dlyarrïved at, vantage point. This location also determines what, where, and whom we choose to study. Therefore, our affinities and interests also come into play in this process, which allows many of us to take Our tum at privileging the discourses which help structure our own subjectivities. The image of the ethnographer as "detached observer", then, masks the political and ideological imperatives which fuel the sociological imagination. For myself, 1 can claim no politicai or emotional detachment from this study . My rationaie for conducting this researc h is based on my own location as a Muslim and my experiences growing up as a minority student in a Euro-centric school system. Through these experiences, 1 have come to understand very well how the pressures of race and social difference can inform the schooling experiences of minonty youth. 1 dso know first hand, how these pressures can lead toward mainstrearn conformity as a means to distance oneself from an otherwise socially-devalued ident~ty.In my case, this was being a Pakistani. Yet, through these experiences 1 cm daim only to have acquired certain insights into the current research; 1 cannot daim authority. Despite being socially categorized as a Muslim. it was only in adulthood that 1 really began to know and practice Islam. It was at this point, that 1 became rooted in a new sense of identity and purpose. Knowing as an adult, the difficulty of leading an Islamic lifestyle in a non-Islamic society, 1 was constantly amazed by Muslim youth who were able to maintain their Islarnic practice and identity while in the multi-pressured context of high school. 1 wondered how they were able to resist the pressures of mainstrearn conforrnity and avoid drugs, alcohol and dating, which were normally considered part of the rites of passage during one's teen years. And so, 1 began this research in an attempt to understand how issues of religious identity are negotiated within the context of secular educationd systems. Ethnographie studies have yet to probe the lived realities of Muslims living within non-Muslim contexts from the perspective of their integration within institutions such as education, and with regard to how their identities are negotiated and maintained within this context. Therefore, this study will attempt to fil1 the ethnographic void of research dealing with the issue of education and the politics of religious identity as it relates to Muslims in the Canadian context. Knowledge of the Muslirn cornmunity has often been constmcted by those who view Islam from a Western perspective. As a result, Muslirns have al1 to often been misrepresented within both the media and academic discourse. The creation and dissemination of this knowledge enacts a relationship of power based on politics and epistemology, which often subordinates the position of the subject-as-Other. Yet, despite being a rnember of the Muslim cornmunity, as a researcher, 1 cannot absent myself from the issue of power in representation. Wnting and defining the expenences of othen, is always an appropriation of knowledge, guided by specific ideological and political designs. The researcher is by nature of the process. imbued with a form of discursive power over the analytical reorganization and conceptualization of the informant's experience. The political intent of this work. however. reflects the need to decolonize/deconstruct the intellectual space of knowing the Islamic Other from the confines of Western social and political discourse. It also represents
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