Anti-Islamophobic curriculums / / Rahat Zaidi.

• Superior document: Critical praxis and curriculum guides
• VerfasserIn: Zaidi, Rahat, 1969-
• Place / Publishing House: New York : : Peter Lang,, [2017]; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Edition: First edition.
• Language: English
• Series: Critical praxis and curriculum guides.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 132 pages) :; illustrations.

Since patterns of immigration began taking hold, one of the primary goals of any immigrant to, or citizen of, North America has been to be accepted and to adapt to a new culture and learn to live a productive and healthy life. There are many different means by which people endeavor to accomplish this. One of these is through education, a platform that has been, and should continue to be, a principal path to achieving this goal. The field of education has also become one of the primary forums for provoking and questioning societal norms and is a powerful means towards achieving the vision of a multicultural society capable of living, working, and playing in harmony. Anti-Islamophobic Curriculums presents a specific curriculum to help teachers and young learners gain more awareness of cultures much different from theirs. Anti-Islamophobic Curriculums also endeavours to decrease sociophobic reaction toward cultures that are unfamiliar and to acquaint learners with a curriculum beyond what has traditionally been their predominant English/French/Indigenous experience. While the conclusions this book draws are applicable to any culture, the curriculum presented here emphasizes the Islamic culture and, through the educational process, aims to mitigate the sociophobic reaction its members often encounter.

Table of Contents

Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Anti-Islamophobic Curriculums -- Chapter One. Multiculturalism Policy and Practice: The Canadian Perspective -- Chapter Two. The Challenges of Multiculturalism: Canadian and Global Perspectives -- Chapter Three. Islamophobia: A Twenty-First Century Example of Sociophobic Development -- Chapter Four. Toward Culturally Sustaining Pedagogy and Antiphobic Initiatives -- Chapter Five. Foundations for an Anti-Islamophobic Curriculum -- Conclusion.