Islam, Education, and Freedom: An Uncommon Perspective on Leadership
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Islam, Education and Freedom explores six key areas of freedom: identity, acceptance, pedagogy, conflict, trust, and love. Based on a qualitative case study of a progressive Islamic school in Southern California, North Star Academy, the book illustrates through the voices of the participants how each particular freedom was applied in the school. The authors show how the six freedoms were understood, taught, and practiced with the aim of developing courageous and confident American Muslims. It explores the ways the school leaders facilitate and impart each freedom and the influence this has on the development of American Muslim students' identity.
The book culminates with a model for freedom in Islamic schooling. It concludes with three key insights: (1) Islamic schooling can facilitate or constrain the way that leaders, teachers, students, and the school community experience freedom; (2) as freedom is a core value of Islam, it should be made central to the conceptualization and practice of Islamic schooling; and, (3) Islamic schooling, when grounded in the six freedoms, can be a pathway to comprehensive school reform and is applicable to Islamic schools. The book includes a Foreword written by Khaula Murtadha, Associate Vice Chancellor for the Office of Community Engagement, Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis, USA.
Presents an uncommon and unexpected perspective of Islamic schooling and leadership, and offers readers a model for implementing the freedoms in Islamic schooling.
Explores a segment of American Muslims who have adopted a progressive approach to Islam and schooling that allows them to exercise specific freedoms
Provides novel perspectives on formal and informal leadership practices in how an Islamic school develops its youth amid the backdrop of a divisive landscape
Offers a new conceptualisation of Islamic schooling, grounded in how different freedoms are understood and applied, and provides a relevant model for comprehensive Islamic school reform
Includes a Foreword written by Khaula Murtadha, Associate Vice Chancellor for the Office of Community Engagement, Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis, USA
Series Editors' Foreword
Foreword, Khaula Murtadha (Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis, USA)
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Intersections of Islam, Education, and Freedom
1. North Star Academy: A Progressive Islamic School
2. Freedom of Identity
3. Freedom of Acceptance
4. Freedom of Pedagogy
5. Freedom for Conflict
6. Freedom to Trust
7. Freedom to Love
8. Five Years Later
9. North Star Academy: A Model for Freedom
Methodological Appendix
Glossary of Arabic and Islamic Terms
References
Index
Index
- Title: Islam, Education, and Freedom: An Uncommon Perspective on Leadership
- Authors: Melanie C. Brooks, Miriam D. Ezzani
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
- Print Publication Date: 2024
- Logos Release Date: 2024
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Ebook
- ISBNs: 9781350231191, 9781350231184, 1350231185, 1350231193
- Resource ID: LLS:9781350231191
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2024-04-11T01:25:45Z
Melanie C. Brooks is an Associate Dean (Research) and Associate Professor in Educational Leadership at Edith Cowan University, Australia.
Miriam D. Ezzani is Associate Professor in Educational Leadership in the College of Education at Texas Christian University, USA.