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Author Buck, Patricia.

Title Educated for change? : Muslim refugee women in the west / by Patricia Buck and Rachel Silver.

Publication Info. Charlotte, N.C. : Information Age Pub., 2012.

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Description 1 online resource (xxv, 343 pages) : illustrations (some color).
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Education policy in practice : critical cultural studies
Education policy in practice.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Contents ""CONTENTS""; ""FOREWORD""; ""PREFACE""; ""NOTE""; ""ABBREVIATIONS""; ""ACKNOWLEDGMENTS""; ""SERIES EDITORS� INTRODUCTION Recentering the Critical in Sociocultural Ethnographic Studies""; ""Rodney Hopson and Edmund T. Hamann""; ""CHAPTER 1 IN THE CONFLUENCE OF ISLAMIC EAST AND WEST Muslim Girls and Women in School""; ""The Study""; ""Why Explore Islamic East-West Relations Through a Multisite Study of Muslim Refugee Women�s Schooling?""; ""Girls and Women as Active Producers of Culture""; ""Multiple Sites Highlight the Particular""
""Theorizing Somali Women�s Schooling: Power, Knowledge, and Flexible Citizenship""""A Story From Dadaab""; ""A Story From Milltown""; ""Map of the Book""; ""NOTES""; ""CHAPTER 2 SOMALIA Tracing a Contested Traditionalism""; ""Precolonial Somali Society""; ""Shifting Precolonial Traditions""; ""The Colonial Period""; ""Independence, Nationalism, and the Postcolonial Period""; ""State Collapse and Civil War""; ""Conclusion""; ""NOTES""
""CHAPTER 3 “IF ANY CULTURE IS IN NEED OF CHANGE, IT�S SOMALI CULTURE� Enlightenment and Girls� and Women�s Empowerment in the Dadaab Refugee Camps""""Camp Life""; ""Kenya and the UNCHR: Regulating the Liminal""; ""Enlightenment Discourse and the Politics of Cultural Change in Dadaab""; ""Empowerment Through Schooling""; ""Conclusion""; ""NOTES""; ""CHAPTER 4 NEGOTIATING THE DADAAB LANDSCAPE Refugees Respond to Polarity in Dadaab""; ""Navigating Within the Middle Ground""; ""Conclusion""; ""NOTES""; ""CHAPTER 5 SOMALI REFUGEE GIRLS AND WOMEN IN SCHOOL""
""Traditionalism and Girls� and Women�s Schooling""""A Community in Flux""; ""Families Divided""; ""Obstacles to Academic Success""; ""The Burden of Domestic Responsibilities""; ""Restriction of Movement""; ""Early Marriage""; ""“Shyness� and Minority Status in the Classroom""; ""Female Circumcision and Resulting Menstrual Complications""; ""Female Students� Understanding of Schooling in the Dadaab Context""; ""Civil (and Human) Rights""; ""Moral and Social Character Development""; ""Contributing to the Economic Development of Their Communities""
""Female Students� Position in the Struggle""""Changes Engendered From Women�s Schooling""; ""Conclusion""; ""NOTES""; ""CHAPTER 6 “THE CULTURE WILL CHANGE AS THE WORLD CHANGES� Using School to Navigate the Global Era""; ""Gender Diversity: Learning With Our Brothers""; ""Ethnic Diversity: Learning With Minorities""; ""Role-Models and Resources: Relations With Kenyan Teachers""; ""Seeking Relations With International Visitors""; ""Conclusion""; ""NOTES""; ""CHAPTER 7 DIALOGUES OF CHANGE""; ""Something Old, Something New""; ""Distinguishing Culture From Religion""
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Subject Muslim women -- Education -- Western countries.
Muslim women -- Education.
Western countries.
Women -- Education -- Western countries.
Women -- Education.
Muslim women -- Social conditions.
Muslim women -- Social conditions.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Subject Women.
Womyn.
Added Author Silver, Rachel.
Other Form: Print version: Buck, Patricia. Educated for change?. Charlotte, N.C. : Information Age Pub., 2012 (DLC) 2011035163
ISBN 9781617356223 (electronic book)
1617356220 (electronic book)
9781617356209 (paperback)
9781617356216 (hardcover)