Young Muslims, Pedagogy and Islam: Contexts and Concepts - Softcover

Khan, M.G.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1847428770 ISBN 13: 9781847428776

Publisher: Policy Press, 2013

Synopsis

For most young people religion and religiosity is something latent or private activated by private events or the passing of years. For Muslim young people it can be activated by an incessant Islamaphobic discourse that requires fundamental questions of relationships and belonging to be addressed in the public gaze whilst being positioned as representatives and 'explainers' of their religion and their communities. Written by a leading practitioner and academic in the field of youth and community work this multidisciplinary book reflects the way theoretical, the social and the religious impacts on the lives of Muslim young people. It discusses the real politic of developing services for young Muslims in the post 9/11 context and moves beyond notions of gendered provision and confessional activity to ask what defines a Muslim pedagogy. In doing so it presents a 'theoretical frame for Muslim youth work' that can be recognised by informal educators and Muslims alike and which re-conceptualises the relationships paradigm in this field. This much needed book provides insights and analyses of nuances that are only possible from a real engagement in a subject and is for anyone working with young people in general and Muslim young people in particular.

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Review:

Young Muslims, Pedagogy and Islam may be the most important book yet written on the genealogy of youth work and its crucial importance to Muslim youth at a time in which the social state is under attack and the war on youth has taken on new and ruthless racist directions. Muhammad Khan provides a brilliant critique of the diverse social, economic, political, pedagogical, and cultural ideologies and policies that bear down on Muslim youth in and through diverse approaches to youth work and services. This is a book that should be read by everyone who believes that bigotry rather justice and diversity is the enemy of democracy. --Henry Giroux

Khan challenges the prevailing 'othering' of Islam by policy agendas driven by fear. He shows how significant Islamic pedagogies can shape and move youth work practice focussed on everyday lives. --Janet Batsleer, Principal Lecturer Youth and Community Work, Manchester Metropolitan University

"MG Khan is to be commended for an excellent and well-crafted analysis of Muslim young people in the age of the war on terror that convincingly rejects the tired and tried caricatures that circulate about Muslim youth." --Salman Sayyid, University of Leeds

About the Author:

Muhammad Khan established the Muslim Youth Work Foundation (www.mywf.org.uk) and is a Tutor in Youth and Community Work, Ruskin College Oxford.

About this edition

• Publisher: Policy Press
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1847428770
• ISBN 13: 9781847428776
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224