Shiraz thobani biography of albert

          Dr Shiraz Thobani, Head of Curriculum Studies, provided an overview of the evolution of the primary and secondary curriculum..

          Islam in the school curriculum: symbolic pedagogy and cultural claims

          British Educational Research Journal Vol.

          38, No. 5, October , pp.

          Shiraz Thobani (eds.), Narrating Islam: Interpretations of the Muslim World Albert Doja, Margarita Karamihova and.

        1. Discussions on both days were facilitated by Dr Shiraz.
        2. Dr Shiraz Thobani, Head of Curriculum Studies, provided an overview of the evolution of the primary and secondary curriculum.
        3. Shiraz Thobani is a Research Associate at The Institute of Ismaili Studies.
        4. The study shows that the means and goals of history education have been formu- lated in both different and similar ways within and between curricular levels.

          5. – BOOK REVIEWS Islam in the school curriculum: symbolic pedagogy and cultural claims Shiraz Thobani, London, Continuum pp. ISBN (hbk) Islam in the school curriculum is a timely and unique sociological examination of curricular and pedagogical challenges to the presentation of Islam, and Muslims more generally, within the British educational context.

          Grounded within Bernstein’s conceptualisation of cultural categories and Bourdieu’s theory of cultural reproduction, the aim of this study was to demonstrate how changes to educational programmes over the past century have endeavoured to innovate, relativise and domesticate ideas that may be considered dangerous to British identity and social cohesion.

          This study is particularly relevant today because about million Muslims live in Britain from South-East Asia, the Middle East, East Africa and Eastern E