160 pages
228mm x 145mm
ISBN-10: 1 85856 340 2
ISBN-13: 978 185856 340 4
October 2004
Reprinted 2005

Confronting Islamophobia in Educational Practice looks at how the educational community in various nations is coming to grips with increased societal hostility towards Islam as a belief system and towards their Muslim populations. It examines the issue of Islamophobia, or fear of Islam, from a variety of perspectives. The background and academic articles help to contextualise this phenomenon, but the main thrust of the book is on educational practice and how schools, teachers, and students are coping with the stereotypes, prejudices and discrimination that are building up against Islam and its followers.

Contributors come from the US, UK, Netherlands, Austria, Germany, Italy, Australia and Israel. They include Pieter Batelaan, Michele Bertani, Irene Donohoue Clyne, Maurice Irfan Coles, Mouin Fahiraladin, Beth Finkelstein, Amber Haque, Yasemin Karakosoglu and Sigri Luchtenberg, J'Lein Liese, Robin Richardson, Shifra Sagy and Shoshana Steinberg, Fida Sanjakdar, Lorraine Sheridan.

This timely and important book will appeal to both academic readers seeking a theoretical and historical approach to the issue, and also to teachers and all those who are looking for methods to address the Islamophobia they encounter in their classrooms.

'...widely relevant and nuanced in its understanding of the wider social issues surrounding Islamophobia in education.' - The Muslim World Book Review
'...issues of policy and teaching practices are addressed in a very readable fashion.' - Rethinking Schools

'This well-edited book deftly presents the state of affairs in many nations and offers strategies to combat the harmful words, actions, decisions, policies, and cultures and cultures of islamophobia. The strategies and countermeasures are not only for teachers and their students, but also for schools as a whole, for local education agencies, and even local and national governments.' - Multicultural Review