Program
Islamic Education and Public Schooling
Workshop 6th-8th of April 2016
Arden Conference Centre, University of Warwick
Room: Lecture 9
April 6th
Lunch at Arden Conference Centre 13-14
14-14.30 Welcome and Introduction
Jenny Berglund & Leslie Francis
14.30-16.30
Conceptions of Islamic Religious Education: Implications for Public Schooling
Farid Panjwani
Discussions on Islamic Education in Turkey
Nuri Tinaz
The Education of Islam in Finnish schools: Equality, Integration, Securitization
Tuula Sakaranaho
Discussant: Ina ter Avest
Tea
17-19
Between old traditions and new diversities - Islamic religious education in Poland
Agata S. Nalborczyk & Konrad Pedtziwiatr
(Re)discovering one’s religion – private Islamic education in Lithuanian Muslim communities
Egdunas Racius
Islamic Education in Austria – New Discourses and Recent Developments
Elif Mendini
Discussant: Farid Panjwani
Dinner 19.30
The workshop is funded by Swedish Research Council and Marie Sklodowska Curie Actions, Cofund
Project INCA 600398
April 7th
Breakfast
9-11
Islamic Education in Public School and Mosques in Germany - Relations of Tension or
Cooperation?
Tuba Isik
Traditional Islamic and mainstream schooling in contemporary England: characteristics,
interactions, challenges & ongoing issues.
Bill Gent
Homework and housework in the house of study – a contribution to a pedagogic civil society
Ina ter Avest
Discussant: Abdullah Sahin
Coffee
11.30-13.30
Integrating 'deen' and 'dunya' in education, to create coherence for British Muslim pupils’
Karamat Iqbal
Islamic religious education and religious nurture in UK Muslim communities: diversity,
challenges and possibilities.
Farah Ahmed
Publicly funded Islamic Education in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Amina Isanovic Hadziomerovic
Discussant: Bill Gent
Lunch 13.30-15
15.-17
Islamic Religious Education or Islamic Ethos? An Exploration into the Rationale for Irish
Muslim Schools.
Youcef Sai
Religious education for minorities – perspectives from Islamic reigious education in Finnish
schools
Inkeri Rissanen
Identity construction of public funded Islamic primary schools in the Netherlands; an historical
approach
Bahaeddin Budak
Discussant: Elisabeth Arweck
Dinner 19.00
The workshop is funded by Swedish Research Council and Marie Sklodowska Curie Actions, Cofund
Project INCA 600398
April 8th
Breakfast
8.30-10.30
Marrying the two: A case of Islamic religious education in Sweden's public education system
Ailin Abdullah
Religious education in Italian public schools: what room for Islam?
Stella Coglievina
Teaching Islam and about Islam in the Spanish public system: the confessional and the cultural
approach to a controversial heritage.
Elena Arigita
Discussant: Tuula Sakaranaho
11-13.30
Islamic education, education of Islam, education on Islam: paradoxes and evolutions in the
French public schooling.
Samim Akgönül
Politics of Teaching Islam within Secular/Multicultural Mainstream British Educational
System: A Pedagogic Critique
Abdullah Sahin
Hidden knowledge; the value or cost of Islamic religious education in secular schooling?
Jenny Berglund
Discussant: Leslie Frances
Lunch 13.30-14.30
14.30-16 Conclusions, final discussion and network suggestion.
Departure
The workshop is funded by Swedish Research Council and Marie Sklodowska Curie Actions, Cofund
Project INCA 600398