New Islamic Schools [electronic resource] : Tradition, Modernity, and Class in Urban Pakistan /
Riaz, S.author.
The first ethnographic study of the trend toward religious, parochial schooling in urban Pakistan, this book provides data from over fifty-Karachi area schools to establish the complex reasons middle- and upper-class families enroll in religious Islamic schools.
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Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Tables; A Note on Transliteration; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction: Understanding Tradition, Modernity, and Class in Islamic Education; Overview of the Chapters; 2 Situating the Islamic Schooling Trend in Pakistan; 1. Pakistani Islamic Schools in Relation to Their Global Prototypes; 1a) Private Islamic Schooling Trend in Indonesia; 1b) Private Islamic Schooling Trend in Thailand; 1c) Private Islamic Schooling Trend in Egypt; 1d) Private Islamic Schooling Trend in India; 2. Theoretical Implications of the Modern Islamic Schooling Phenomenon
2a) Conceptualizing Islamic Tradition, Secularism, and Modernity2b) Women, Modernity, and Islamic Tradition; 2c) Understanding Islamic Education; 2d) Toward Conceptualizing an Islamic Class Education; Conclusion; 3 The Educational System in Pakistan and the Place of Islamic Schooling; The Education System of Pakistan; 1. Public Schools; 2. Madrasas; 3. Private Secular Schools; 4. Why Private Islamic Schools?; Conclusion; 4 Examining Diversity in Islamic Schools; Moral Code of Conduct in Madrasa-Alumni-Operated (MA) and Commercial (C) Islamic Schools; A Look at MA Islamic Schools
1. Madrasa-Alumni-Operated Islamic Schools: Sunni Subsectarian Pedagogical Differences1a) The Deobandi Islamic Schools; 1b) The Barelvi Islamic Schools; 1c) The Ahl al-Hadith Islamic Schools; 1d) Shiite Madrasa-Alumni-Operated (SMA) Islamic Schools; 2. Commercial Islamic Schools; 2a) The Sunni Variety; 2b) The Shiite Variety; 3. The Politico-Religious Islamic Schools; 4. The Linguistic/Communal Islamic Schools; Creating Gender and Class Subjectivities; A Note on Non-Muslim Religious Schools; Conclusion; 5 Knowledge at Play; 1. Islamic School Pedagogies: Creating Islamic Subjectivities
1a) Creating Islamic Subjectivities: Pre-primary Educational Program at Islamic SchoolsIslamic Subjectivities and Critical Thinking: The Case of Shiite Madrasa-Alumni-Operated (SMA) Islamic Schools; 1b) Creating Islamic Subjectivities: Primary and Secondary Educational Programs in Islamic Schools; Parent Perspective; 2. Islamic School Pedagogies: Creating National Subjectivities; 3. Islamic School Pedagogies: Creating Class Subjectivities; 3a) The Importance of English; 4. Creating Gender Subjectivities; Teachers as Nurturers; Increasing Women's Role in the Public Sphere; Conclusion
6 Toward a New Approach to Islamic EducationNotes; Chapter 1; Chapter 2; Chapter 3; Chapter 4; Chapter 5; Chapter 6; Bibliography; Glossary; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The first ethnographic study of the trend toward religious, parochial schooling in urban Pakistan, this book provides data from over fifty-Karachi area schools to establish the complex reasons middle- and upper-class families enroll in religious Islamic schools.
International education .
Comparative education.
Sociology, Urban.
Religion.
School management and organization.
School administration.
Educational sociology.
Educational sociology .
Education and sociology.
International and Comparative Education.
Urban Studies/Sociology.
Religious Studies, general.
Administration, Organization and Leadership.
Sociology of Education.
Sociology of Education.