Pedagogized Muslimness - Religion and Culture as Identity Politics in the Classroom

von: Mette Buchardt

Waxmann Verlag GmbH, 2014

ISBN: 9783830981435 , 200 Seiten

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Pedagogized Muslimness - Religion and Culture as Identity Politics in the Classroom


 

Buchtitel

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Contents

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Acknowledgements

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PART 1: STUDYING THE CURRICULUMOF ‘RELIGION’ AS SOCIAL PRACTICE

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1. Prologue: The desire for knowledge of ‘the Muslim pupil’: a problematization of a problematization

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1.1 Gülsen in the mosque and the church. The knowledge desire of the researcher

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1.2 September 12: Monoculturalism, multiculturalism, and anti-racism in education?

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1.3 The main questions, the object, the data

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1.4 From dissertation to book – from Danish into English: Studies of Danish schooling in an international context

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1.5 The structure of the book

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2. The approach to curriculum, knowledge, and the classroom

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2.1 The understanding of curriculum in relation to research on education

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2.2 Recontextualizing, pedagogizing, and the pedagogic device

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2.3 Forms of curricular knowledge conceptualized sociologically and social-epistemologically

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2.4 Top-down or micro-politics? Locating curriculum through the concept of recontextualizing

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2.5 Recontextualizing knowledge about ‘religion,’ ‘culture,’ and ‘identity’ – an initial localization as a framework for asking questions in the classroom

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2.6 The emergence of ‘the immigrant pupil’

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2.7 Research on religion in schools and its impact on this study

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2.8 ‘Religion’/‘culture’ as knowledge and identity politics

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3. Conceptual architecture: recontextualizing and the pedagogic field of practice studied as discursive regularity and social economy

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3.1 Operationalizing the Bernsteinian understanding of field and discourse

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3.2 Pedagogic discourse and discursive regularity

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3.3 The grammar of the classroom: language as social practice

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3.4 Classroom as social space: positioning and dispositions of the agents

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3.5 Forms of capital: The economy of the symbolic – the symbolism of economy

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3.6 Conceptualizing the classroom: social classification and knowledge

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4. Two classrooms in the socioeconomic landscape. Constructing the empirical material

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4.1 Constructing the data – constructing the classroom

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4.1.1 The dissimilarity of the school sociogeography and the socioeconomy of the school classes

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4.1.2 The official self-articulation of the schools

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4.1.3 Producing the material

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4.2 The official text of the classroom

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4.2.1 Fairclough-inspired reading strategies

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4.3 The detailed focal points in analyzing classroom conversation

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4.4 Practices of the turn-taking system

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4.5 The socioeconomic backgrounds of the pupils: teacher, pupil, and parent descriptions and information

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4.6 Between and across the analysis of dispositions, positions, and positioning and the analysis of knowledge- and subject production

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PART 2: DIFFERENTIATED ‘MUSLIM’ CLASS STRUCTURE

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5. The teacher articulation of the official classroom text

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5.1 A differentiated ideal of respect

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5.2 ‘The Muslim pupil’ as a structuring figure

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5.3 Separate and stable, yet flexibly changeable

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6. Muslimness as differentiated school capital

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6.1 Culture as religion, religion as culture in the teacher’s characterizations

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6.1.1 A landscape of differentiations

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6.1.2 The predictable headscarf user

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6.1.3 The cultivated headscarf user

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6.1.4 The headscarf user who cannot be taken seriously

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6.2 To be or not to be legitimate, to be or not to be ‘subject matter-relevant’

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6.2.1 Qualifying in a subject matter sense, qualifying as religious – or not at all

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6.3 Those in whom one can invest expectations

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6.3.1 The adaptable unadapted

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6.3.2 The cultivated and flexible Muslim

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6.4 Summing up: the socioeconomic landscape

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7. Production of ‘the Muslim subjects’

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7.1 Situating the text sample: educational module and lesson

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7.1.1 Comparisons, symbols, and embodiments

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7.1.2 Text sample

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7.2 Ritual as the structuring theme – Sulayman as the content

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7.2.1 TRT1: ‘You’ and ‘someone’ in the mosque on Fridays

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7.2.2 TRT2: What you do and what it says

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7.3 Intimacy and distance

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7.4 Modality at work

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7.4.1 ‘Muslims’ as flexible, unpredictable, and attached to intentionality

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7.4.2 They, you, and the good Muslim

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7.4.3 There are some things you must do

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7.5 Summing up: the Muslim subjects

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7.5.1 Legitimate and accessible versus unacceptable spaces of Muslimness

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8. Intimization and flexibilization of acknowledged ‘Muslimness’

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8.1 Social classification: recognition of dispositions and position

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8.2 Pupils in the game of knowledge and experience

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8.3 Categories of knowledge, production of subjects

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PART 3: SUBJECTIVITY WITHIN THE PERIMETER OF ‘MUSLIM TRADITION’: MUSLIM AS ‘LOW CLASS’

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9. The school and the teachers’ articulation of curriculum

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9.1 The educational module and the teacher speech about curriculum

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9.1.1 Rituals in “every culture” and “close to oneself”

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9.2 Muslims and Christians: experience knowledge and factual knowledge

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10. ‘Christianity’ as ‘universal human conditions’ versus the predictable ‘Muslim tradition’

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10.1 The universal human funeral: organization of ‘Christianity’ and ‘funeral’

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10.1.1 Selected text sample 1

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10.1.2 Topics and themes and the organizational power of the speech

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10.1.3 Designating persons and places

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10.1.4 Modality: How ‘should’ and ‘can’ install inevitability and choice

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10.1.5 Choices and limitations set by the ritual

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10.1.6 Installation of pupil experience in Danish Christianness – between ‘stable’ and ‘choosing’

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10.2 The ‘Muslim’ tradition: organizing ‘Islam’ and ‘funeral’

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10.2.1 Text sample 2

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10.2.2 TRTs between teacher speech and pupil speech

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10.2.3 The respectful ‘Muslims’ and the busy ‘we’

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10.2.4 Differentiating comparisons

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10.2.5 Pupils’ speech: the relevant and valid experience

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10.3 Producing subjects, generating pupil experience

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10.3.1 Managing knowledge between .the book’ and the .self-experienced’

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10.3.2 Organizing pupil experiences and contributions

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10.3.3 The designated and the invisible

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10.4 Summing up: constructing the objects Christianity and Islam

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10.4.1 Formal knowledge and experience knowledge

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11. The hierarchy of problematization: teachers’ interest and teachers’ concern

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11.1 The empirical material

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11.1.1 The group composition

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11.1.2 Organizing the material and the analysis

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11.2 Gülsen and Amalie: “A kind of girl that … lacks some socialfilters” and “The most social and diplomatic child”

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11.2.1 Gülsen about Gülsen, and the teacher about “that kind of girl”

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11.2.2 The teacher regarding “a real kind of sports girl”

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11.3 The girl group hierarchy: the academics’ daughter, a girl who thinks she’s clever, and one who’s out of proportion

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11.3.1 The wrong kind of dominance

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11.3.2 Below the hierarchy

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11.4 Those that bring bad influences from other institutions and those that bring it from home

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11.4.1 The one who picked it up

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11.4.2 The one who brought it from home, and the one who brought nothing

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11.5 The categorization practices of the teachers in descriptions ofpupils

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11.5.1 Pupils through parents

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11.5.2 Pupils through the pupil hierarchy

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11.5.3 The structure of social classification and the group

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11.6 Summing up: pupil disposition and -positioning, teacher recognition and the opposite

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11.6.1 The practices of teacher categorizations of pupils

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12. Assembling knowledge production and social classification

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12.1 Speech about types of pupils and forms of knowledge

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12.2 Remaining an under-achiever; winning a space, but not legitimacy

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12.3 Knowledge and speakers in an agent-, practice-, and capital perspective

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PART 4: RELIGION AND CULTURE AS KNOWLEDGE AND SOCIAL CLASSIFICATION

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13. Pedagogizing religion. Concluding remarks

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13.1 Religion as race and class

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13.2 Religion as ‘experience knowledge’

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13.3 The differentiated Muslim class structure at the B-school: the Muslim subjects

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13.4 Subjectivity within the perimeter of ‘Muslim tradition.’ The Muslim underclass at the C-schools highly differentiated class structure

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13.5 Recapitulation: production of knowledge and production of social classification as interlinked

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13.6 The school’s production and classification of knowledge and bodies. ‘Muslimness’ and ‘universal Danish Christianity’ pedagogized

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Appendix A: The B-school, selected text sample. Original Danish version

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Appendix B: The C-school, selected text samples, original Danish version

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