All American Yemeni Girls - Being Muslim in a Public School

Informationen zum Autor Loukia K. Sarroub is Assistant Professor of education at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln. She is currently conducting fieldwork on literacy in and out of school among American and Iraqi refugee youth. Klappentext Winner of the National Reading Conference 2005 Edward Fry Book Award Based on more than two years of fieldwork conducted in a Yemeni community in southeastern Michigan, this unique study examines Yemeni American girls' attempts to construct and make sens Zusammenfassung How Yemeni girls reconcile their religious culture with their experiences in an American high school. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction: Being American, Being Yemeni: Uncovering a Predicament 2. American Sojourners between Honor and Shame 3. Classroom as Oasis 4. Islam and Conflicting Visions of Literacy 5. The Tensions Teachers Face: Public Education and Islam 6. From Aspiration to Desperation and Living in Ambiguity 7. Living Ethnography: Reflections on Dearborn before and after September 11 Notes Bibliography Index Acknowledgments

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• Autori: Loukia K Sarroub, Loukia K. Sarroub
• Editore: University of pennsylvania pr
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 03.01.2005
• EAN: 9780812218947
• ISBN: 978-0-8122-1894-7
• Pagine: 168
• Dimensioni: 159 mm x 235 mm x 13 mm
• Categorie: Saggistica > Filosofia, religione > Religione: tematiche generali, opere di consultazione; Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Sociologia > Teorie sociologiche; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Pedagogia > Istruzione