This book provides an illuminating account of teachers' own reflections on their experiences
of teaching in urban schools. It was conceived as a direct response to policy-related and …

This paper draws on feminist, postcolonial and queer analytic frameworks to address the
pedagogical significance of veiling and the Muslim subject in the aftermath of September 11 …

Understanding the construction of belonging, and how unbelonging might be troubled, is
critical work. For schools in many parts of the world one of the many challenges of …

There has been increased attention on transgender and gender-nonconforming youth and
the obstacles that they face in schools, especially in terms of peer harassment and access to …

This article researches how Muslim students in Canada negotiate identity in an extremely
complex discursive terrain of the unofficial Islamophobia curriculum of family, schooling, and …

This article discusses the findings of a study examining the challenges and opportunities of
supporting Muslim students in secular public schools. Education is explored as a …

In this article, I offer a qualitative study of three spaces created by and for young Muslim
women in Toronto, Canada: an after-school drop-in programme for Muslim girls, a Somali …

This paper presents the root causes of the resistance of mainstream European educational
institutions to implementation of minority language programmes (bilingual programmes with …

This research explored 10 young female Shi'i Muslim Arabic-Canadian students'
experiences associated with wearing the Hijab (headscarf) within their home, community …

Abstract Diane Watt is a PhD candidate in the Faculty of Education at the University of
Ottawa. She spent much of the decade of the 1990's living with her husband and children in …