Gent, William Anthony (2006) Muslim supplementary classes and their place within the wider learning community : a Redbridge-based study. Other thesis, University of Warwick.

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Abstract

Using his own professional experiences and fieldwork in the north-east of London as a
starting point, the author suggests that the time is now right to consider the place of Muslim
supplementary education in a wider social and educational setting. He suggests that four
factors support this: the growing public interest in the emergence of British Islam; the
continuing debate about the efficacy of traditional forms of Islamic education; the increasing
use of networking within the educational community; and the growing official recognition of
the contribution made by supplementary schooling.
Following a review of a wide range of relevant literary material, the author draws on a
number of life-story interviews in order to portray the reality and variety of British Muslims'
experience of Islamic education. The outcomes of ethnographic fieldwork are then used to
describe and analyse what takes place in a British maktab (elementary mosque school). This
includes a detailed explanation of how and why the Qur'an is learned, particularly by those
individuals who are training to become huffaz (those who have committed the whole Qur'an
to memory).
The ways in which Muslim supplementary schools might form part of the wider social and
educational community are then explored together with factors that might block or encourage
the creation of such an ideal. Analysis includes a review of existing organisational attempts
to promote the work of supplementary schooling. A case is also presented for the reappraisal
of the role of memorisation as a distinct form of learning.
The thesis ends with a concluding statement, focusing on the ideal of maktabs and
mainstream LEA schools working together to mutual benefit, and a number of
recommendations aimed at researchers and those involved in both Muslim and wider
community schooling.

Item Type:	Thesis (Other)
Subjects:	B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BP Islam. Bahaism. Theosophy, etc L Education > LB Theory and practice of education
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH):	Islamic religious education -- Great Britain, Ethnic schools -- Great Britain
Official Date:	May 2006
Dates:	Date Event May 2006 Submitted
Institution:	University of Warwick
Theses Department:	Institute of Education
Thesis Type:	Other
Publication Status:	Unpublished
Supervisor(s)/Advisor:	Nesbitt, Eleanor M.
Extent:	139 leaves
Language:	eng

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