{"product_id":"canadian-islamic-schools-9780802095725","title":"Canadian Islamic Schools","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eReligious schooling in Canada has been a controversial subject since the secularization of the public school system, but there has been little scholarship on Islamic education. In this ethnographic study of four full-time Islamic schools, Jasmin Zine explores the social, pedagogical, and ideological functions of these alternative, and religiously-based educational institutions. Based on eighteen months of fieldwork and interviews with forty-nine participants, \u003cem\u003eCanadian Islamic Schools\u003c\/em\u003e provides significant insight into the role and function that Islamic schools have in Diasporic, Canadian, educational, and gender-related contexts.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDiscussing issues of cultural preservation, multiculturalism, secularization, and assimiliation, Zine considers pertinent topics such as the Eurocentricism of Canada's public schools and the social reproduction of Islamic identity. She further examines the politics of piety, veiling, and gender segregation paying particular attention to the wa\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52195221045591,"sku":"9780802095725","price":31.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780802095725.jpg?v=1763646793","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/canadian-islamic-schools-9780802095725","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}