Early Childhood Education for Muslim Children: Rationales and practices in South

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This book explores how Muslim children are educated for an Islamic way of life in a minority context. Grounded in detailed research from six preschools for Muslim children in South Africa, first-hand interviews with parents and staff capture the complexities that arise when passing on religion in the formative years.

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Early Childhood Education for Muslim Children foregrounds the marginalised perspective of Muslim children aged three to five and examines how they are cared for and educated in centre-based provision in two provinces in post-apartheid South Africa. Both theological and social science perspectives are carefully interwoven to make sense of the construction of service provision for Muslims as a minority group in a secular democracy.This book uses a qualitative, reflexive approach to amplify the voices of mothers, managers and teachers as the community of agents who shape priorities for young children in the context of a rapidly transforming society. The research demonstrates that the quest to establish an appropriate care network and a sound educative environment for Muslim children is riddled with complexities, struggles and tensions. In the light of changes in the home-based network for early education, centre-based provision has become an important infrastructure for Muslim communities seeking one-stop academic and Islamic education. The internal struggles encountered in this form of provision include inequities in access, struggles to package an appropriate curriculum, and dealing with nurturance specific to the faith and for cultural formations supportive of citizenship. This book calls for critical engagement with issues of religious education in early childhood, social cohesion, formal systematic teacher education for Muslim teachers, curriculum development and parental support. It will contribute not only to the development of early education from an Islamic perspective, but will also demonstrate how to expand discourses and practices to deal with diversity and faith development in early years. As such, it will appeal to academics, researchers and postgraduate students in the fields of early childhood education, religious studies, race and ethnic studies, and childhood studies

Author Biography

Hasina Banu Ebrahim is a Professor in Early Childhood Education at the University of South Africa. She is a rated researcher with the National Research Foundation in South Africa and her research focus in on Early Care and Education policy, practice and teacher education.

Table of Contents

1. Contextualising early childhood education in South Africa 2. An Islamic perspective of (early childhood) education 3. Contemporary models of early childhood education for Muslim children 4. Qualitative research in centre-based early childhood education for Muslim children 5. Muslim mothers framing early childhood education 6.The social construction of centre-based early childhood education 7. The making of Muslim children in early childhood centres 8. Conclusion

Review

Ebrahim's book is a fascinating examination of how early childhood education is rationalised and practiced among Muslim minority groups in South Africa. In contrast to dominant western discourses of early childhood, Ebrahim's inquiry stands out for its grounding in an Islamic worldview while drawing from other useful theoretical frameworks. Ebrahim's study focuses on early childhood education centre in the Muslim minority context in South Africa, but has implications for Muslim populations worldwide as they seek to develop the societal infrastructure and curriculum needed to nurture and educate young Muslim children in ways that are faith-based, socially relevant, and effective. Dr Sadaf Shallwani, Senior Officer for Learning and Evaluation, Firelight Foundation, USAHasina Ebrahim has produced a remarkable text. Based on multidisciplinary approaches, and drawing on research in selected Early Childhood Development sites, this book provides a sustained focus on the multiple factors that influence the way in which young children grow, develop and learn in a Muslim – centric educational context. The book's perspectives are important in that it represents a departure from dominant constructions of childhood. Ebrahim's account succeeds in working against the negative publicity that Muslims are experiencing in contemporary times. Distinguished Professor Aslam Fataar, Vice-Dean Research, Stellenbosch University, South AfricaThis book makes compelling reading. For people seeking to understand the early childhood education of Muslim children from the Islamic and social science perspectives, this book is a must. It is the first on the subject. What you'll learn from reading this book is that Muslim minorities face many challenges in preserving their identity in predominantly secularised societies. It shows how early childhood centres for Muslim children are serving as alternative educational institutions for faith development in the formative years.Professor Suleman Dangor , University of KwaZulu-Natal, South AfricaA masterful and incredible account into the early socialisation of Muslim children. This book is well-timed at the point that early childhood education in South Africa has become a national imperative. A truly gifted scholar of early childhood education, Ebrahim interrogates how a particular worldview influence perspectives on how Muslim children are educated in Islamic contexts that frame early childhood education. Inspiring, mesmeric and highly alluring.Dr Naseema Shaik, Early Childhood Lecturer, Cape Pennisula University of Technology, South Africa

Details ISBN1138613797 Pages 184 Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd Year 2018 ISBN-10 1138613797 ISBN-13 9781138613799 Format Paperback Imprint Routledge Subtitle Rationales and practices in South Africa Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom DEWEY 372.21088297 Illustrations 3 Tables, black and white Publication Date 2018-06-01 Short Title Early Childhood Education for Muslim Children Language English UK Release Date 2018-06-01 AU Release Date 2018-06-01 NZ Release Date 2018-06-01 Author Hasina Ebrahim Series Routledge Research in Early Childhood Education Alternative 9781138909694 Audience Tertiary & Higher Education We've got this

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