Addressing Islamophobia in Curricula
Khaled Beydoun
Workshop Overview:
This workshop was designed to:
- Initiate an interdisciplinary dialogue on how to better address Islamophobia and various forms of marginality both in theory and practice
- Develop teaching materials to judiciously integrate Islam and marginality related issues in our curricula.
- Create resource centers to foster research and educate Ƶ Community on Islam and Islamophobia.
- Design short/long term plans to address both in theory & practice Islam and marignality related issues
Presentation:
- Between Indigence, Islamophobia, and Erasure: Poor and Muslim in “War on Terror” America ()
More Information:
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Workshop Outcomes
Breakout Session: Education
This session was designed for participants to brainstorm, strategize, and plan new approaches to teaching ‘against’ Islamophobia in higher education. Additionally, participants collaboratively developed a long term plan to support building critical frameworks for their students. The emphasis was on sustainable, counter- hegemonic pedagogical practices that are cross-disciplinary and inclusive.
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Teaching/Curriculum Strategies
Peer Mentoring and Networking
- Training students
- Mobilizing pre-existing interests
- CETL funds/student workers
Curriculum
- Stand alone (Gen Ed) course o Unit/module
- CaseStudies
- Websites and Resources
- Using Ƶ Avenues (CETL) resources
- 1st Year Learning Community
- Conference & Diversity Inclusion
- Focus on interdisciplinary & intersectional approaches
Disrupt & Deconstruct/Rebuild & Reconstruct
- Interdisciplinary Unit
- On Islam/Islamophobia
- ‘Take on the road’, Beyond Ƶ.
- Intersectional Approaches
- Disrupt the Binary (Either a ‘violent extremist’ or ‘non-religious moderate’
- Structural Racism & Discrimination
- Orientalism
- Focus on Intersectional Pedagogy
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Breakout Session: Research
This session was designed to place an emphasis on sustainable, counter-hegemonic
theories that are cross disciplinary and inclusive. Participants brainstormed about research methodologies, available resources and strategized on how to create resource centers to foster research and educate Ƶ Community on Islam and Islamophobia. Additionally, participants collaboratively developed a long term plan to build critical frameworks that foster students’ critical thinking and research skills. -
Foundational Scholars
- Letti Volpp
- Asma Barlas
- Yvonne Haddad
- Leila Ahmed
- Sarah Gualtieri
- Fatima Mernissi
- Talal Asad
- Amina Wadud
- Abdullah An-Naim (Emory)
- Edward Said
- Hamid Dabashi
- Jack Shaheen
- Mamood Mamadani
- Mustafa Akyol
- Sayeed Hussein Nasr
- Kambiz Ghaneabassi
- Silvian Diouf
- Edward Curtis
- Fear Ink
- Khaled Abdul El-Fadl
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Terms to know
- Anti Muslim Bigotry
- Deconstructing the Social Construct (disrupting binary)
- Using humor
- Media & Popular Culture
- Analysis Opp.
- Connecting through discussions of bias (K-12)
- Questions at course on Islamophobia
- Intersectionality
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Potential Actions
- Course
- Unit
- Resources
- Case Study
- Deconstruct
- Disrupt