Secular Institutions, Islam and Education Policy
France and the U.S. in Comparative Perspective
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In January 2015, three attackers walked into the office of the satirical magazine, Charlie Hebdo, in Paris, opened fire and killed twelve people, including a Muslim policeman, in the deadliest terrorist attack on France for 50 years. We live in a time of suspicion and fear, not least because religion has returned to the centre stage of collective memories in Europe and in the United States. Amidst claims of threats to national identities in an era of increasing diversity, should we be worried about the upsurge in religious animosity in the United States, as well as Europe? Paola Mattei and Andrew Aguilar show that French society is divided along conflicts about religious identity, increasingly visible in public schools. Republicanism, based on the solidarity and secularism, is viewed by many as the cause of discrimination and unfairness against minority groups. Policies invoking laïcité are frequently criticised as a disguised form of Islamophobia. Secular Institutions, Islam, and Education Policy suggests, on the contrary, that secularism in France is a flexible concept, translated into contradictory policy programmes, and subject to varying political interpretations. This book presents original data showing how schools have become, once again, a central theatre of political action and public engagement regardinglaicité, an ideal grounded in the republican origins of the public education system in France.
Amidst claims of threats to national identities in an era of increasing diversity, should we be worried about the upsurge in religious animosity in the United States, as well as Europe? This book explores how French society is divided along conflicts about religion, increasingly visible in public schools, and shows the effect that this has had.
Examines school examinations and educational standardsetting across Europe Argues that schooling and educational achievements are essential to the future of the European project Examines Europe in comparison with OECD countries Author has worked at the LSE and is now based at St Antony's College, Oxford Excellent fit with our European social policy programme, with crossover to education, public policy and European Studies
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"This deeply-researched account of Islam and secularity with special emphasis on the failures of the national school system in France will be valuable to all who are concerned with a life-and-death question for modernity: How can individual freedom be squared with social peace, given the current resurgence of groups who feel alienated from the modern secular state?" - E, D. Hirsch, Jr. Author of Cultural Literacy and The Making of Americans
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"This deeply-researched account of Islam and secularity with special emphasis on the failures of the national school system in France will be valuable to all who are concerned with a life-and-death question for modernity: How can individual freedom be squared with social peace, given the current resurgence of groups who feel alienated from the modern secular state?" - E, D. Hirsch, Jr. Author of Cultural Literacy and The Making of Americans
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