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Sahin, Abdullah (2019) Islamic and western liberal secular values of higher education : convergence or divergence? In: Gibbs, P. and Jameson , J. and Elwick , A., (eds.) Values of the University in a Time of Uncertainty. Cham: Springer, pp. 199-216. ISBN 9783030159696
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-15970-2_14
Abstract
This chapter aims to discuss critically the changing values in higher education within the context of culturally, ethnically and religiously plural modern European societies with a special focus on the case of emerging European Islamic higher education institutions. The inquiry argues for the need to rethink the core values in Islamic and western liberal, secular higher education in order to facilitate a new creative engagement between these two distinctive perspectives on higher education that share an intertwined intellectual legacy. The focus of the study is framed by the following questions: Do central educational values of Islam and western secular higher education remain in conflict? To what extent can a critical dialogue of convergence be facilitated between the educational/pedagogic cultures of Islamic and western higher education? Why should such a critical engagement be based on a shared relational ethics of respecting the dignity of difference and recognition of mutual interdependence? The study adopts a phenomenology- infomed critical, comparative analysis method while exploring the topic within its historical and contempoaray dimensiosns. The original contribution of the inquiry lies in its reflective engagement with the Islamic and western values of higher education and developing a distinctive conceptual framework to facilitate a new pedagogic dialogue among the communities of learners and teachers coming from these educational cultures who increasingly share the same social space. After presenting the aims and context of the inquiry, a brief historical account of Islamic and western values of higher education will be provided. This will be followed by discussing the arguments supporting the incompatibility of Islamic and western values of education. The incompatibility thesis will be deconstructed by critically examining its logic of binary literalism. By drawing on the evidence suggesting presence of a shared reflective, critical educational heritage between Islam and the West, the chapter argues for the need to revive these forgotten traditions of pedagogic curiosity and critical openness to inspire a new cross-pollinating dialogue capable of acknowledging the dignity of being different and recognizing the reality of sharing an interdependent world.
| Item Type: | Book Item | ||||
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| Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > B Philosophy (General) B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BL Religion B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BP Islam. Bahaism. Theosophy, etc L Education > L Education (General) L Education > LB Theory and practice of education L Education > LB Theory and practice of education > LB2300 Higher Education |
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Centre for Education Studies (2013- ) | ||||
| Publisher: | Springer | ||||
| Place of Publication: | Cham | ||||
| ISBN: | 9783030159696 | ||||
| Book Title: | Values of the University in a Time of Uncertainty | ||||
| Editor: | Gibbs, P. and Jameson , J. and Elwick , A. | ||||
| Official Date: | 18 June 2019 | ||||
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| Page Range: | pp. 199-216 | ||||
| DOI: | 10.1007/978-3-030-15970-2_14 | ||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
| Publication Status: | Published |
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