Download or read book Canadian Islamic Schools written by Jasmin Zine and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2008-11-29 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Religious schooling in Canada has been a controversial subject since the secularization of the public school system, but there has been little scholarship on Islamic education. In this ethnographic study of four full-time Islamic schools, Jasmin Zine explores the social, pedagogical, and ideological functions of these alternative, and religiously-based educational institutions. Based on eighteen months of fieldwork and interviews with forty-nine participants, Canadian Islamic Schools provides significant insight into the role and function that Islamic schools have in Diasporic, Canadian, educational, and gender-related contexts. Discussing issues of cultural preservation, multiculturalism, secularization, and assimiliation, Zine considers pertinent topics such as the Eurocentricism of Canada's public schools and the social reproduction of Islamic identity. She further examines the politics of piety, veiling, and gender segregation paying particular attention to the ways in which gendered identities are constructed within the practices of Islamic schools and how these narratives shape and inform the negotiation of gender roles among both boys and girls. A fascinating and informative study of religious-based education, Canadian Islamic Schools is essential reading for educators, sociologists, as well as those interested in Immigration and Diaspora Studies.

Download or read book Religion and Schooling in Canada written by Robert K. Crocker and published by University of Ottawa Press. This book was released on 2022-11-15 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christian organizations have always played a large role in Canadian education. By 1949, five provinces had constitutionally protected denominational schools. The federal government’s responsibility for the education of Indigenous Peoples was effectively contracted out to the churches for more than a century, resulting in a history of abuse that has only recently come to light. From the 1950s to the 1970s, several initiatives in different provinces set the stage for significant reforms to education. Some of these tested the limits of denominational protections, but could not shake the underlying constitutional structures. Patriation of the Constitution and adoption of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms in 1982 codified fundamental changes in thinking about civil rights. The Charter allowed existing denominational rights to be challenged on many fronts. However, all such challenges were rebuffed by the courts on the grounds that the Charter cannot be used to override other parts of the Constitution. By the 1990s, it became apparent that another route to reform was available, through the amending formula. Constitutional amendments were used to end denominational control of schools in Newfoundland and Quebec in 1997 and 1998. The circumstances around those constitutional amendments are discussed in detail as possible precedents for similar outcomes in Alberta, Ontario, and Saskatchewan. This book contends that change will certainly come to these provinces and several paths to reform are explored. This reform aims to remove the discrimination inherent in denominational institutions while preserving some form of religious involvement in certain schools.

Download or read book Religious Education in the Schools of Canada written by Canadian Council of Churches. Committee on Weekday Religious Education and published by Canada : The Committee. This book was released on 1957 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book God in the Classroom written by Lois Sweet and published by M&S. This book was released on 1997 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Lois Sweet sets out, in an even-handed, informative, and accessible way, to address the thorny issue of religion and education. Under no illusion that there are easy solutions, she argues that the public classroom and what is taught there is crucial to the development of a healthy pluralism -- one that honours and includes everyone by acknowledging that the spiritual is an important part of the human search for meaning. Already advance praise is pouring in from all quarters for God in the Classroom:

Download or read book State Support for Religious Education written by and published by Martinus Nijhoff Publishers. This book was released on 2007 with total page 1132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aimed at those interested in the vital relationship between international human rights law and domestic policy. This work provides a set of source documents concerning the legal and political history of religious education in a multicultural environment and especially in Ontario, Canada's largest province.

Download or read book Religious Diversity in Canadian Public Schools written by Dia Dabby and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2022-02-01 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Canadian public schools have long been entrusted with socializing children. Yet this duty can rest uneasily alongside religious diversity questions. Grounding its analysis in three seminal Supreme Court cases, Religious Diversity in Canadian Public Schools reveals complex legal processes that compress multidimensional conversations into an oppositional format and exclude the voices of children themselves. Dia Dabby contends that schools are in fact microsystems with the power to construct their own rules and relationships. This compelling work encourages a deeper conversation about how religion is mediated through public schools, inviting a critical reassessment of the role of law in education.

Download or read book Religious Education in Schools of Canada written by Canadian Council of Churches. Committee on Religious Education in Schools and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 21 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Discipline Devotion and Dissent written by Graham P. McDonough and published by Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press. This book was released on 2013-09-03 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The education provided by Canada’s faith-based schools is a subject of public, political, and scholarly controversy. As the population becomes more religiously diverse, the continued establishment and support of faith-based schools has reignited debates about whether they should be funded publicly and to what extent they threaten social cohesion. These discussions tend to occur without considering a fundamental question: How do faith-based schools envision and enact their educational missions? Discipline, Devotion, and Dissent offers responses to that question by examining a selection of Canada’s Jewish, Catholic, and Islamic schools. The daily reality of these schools is illuminated through essays that address the aims and practices that characterize these schools, how they prepare their students to become citizens of a multicultural Canada, and how they respond to dissent in the classroom. The essays in this book reveal that Canada’s faith-based schools sometimes succeed and sometimes struggle in bridging the demands of the faith and the need to create participating citizens of a multicultural society. Discussion surrounding faith-based schools in Canada would be enriched by a better understanding of the aims and practices of these schools, and this book provides a gateway to the subject.

Download or read book Religious Education in the Schools of Canada written by Canadian Council of Churches. Department of Christian Education. Committee on Weekday Religious Education and published by Toronto. This book was released on 1952 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Religious Education in the Schools of Canada written by and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Religious Diversity in Canadian Public Schools written by Dia Dabby and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2022-02 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive analysis of the legally complex relationship between religion and public schools will compel readers to reconsider the role of law in education.

Download or read book Through the Prism of Religious Diversity and Law in Canada written by Dia Dabby and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Schools have long been entrusted with a unique mandate, that of socializing society's children. In the Canadian context, this has given rise to a number of litigated cases on the place of religion in public schools. This thesis explores three case studies that challenge the place of religious diversity in public schools, and concurrently, constitute a narrative through which to understand broader discourses about belonging and tolerance. Drawing on legal stories to bring context to how children are discussed, spoken about and spoken to, as well as how they respond, when faced with questions about their community of belonging in the context of schools, the three case studies revolve around: (1) a teacher who seeks to use additional educational resources for kindergarten and pre-kindergarten students to provide more inclusive stories about families; (2) a Sikh student's right to carry his kirpan, a ceremonial dagger, after an incident in his school courtyard; and (3) a student and his parents who wish to be exempt from an ethics and religious culture program. Indeed, although all three of these stories differ in terms of litigious content - books, kirpan and school curriculum - crosscurrent themes are present and engender an important narrative on religion and public education in Canada. The thesis begins by reviewing the legal regulation of public schools to highlight their capacity as sites of law making. A careful analysis reinforces the mutually constitutive role that law and space play on each other in the context of public schools, as played out through notions of tolerance and belonging. Law's understanding of religion in education is set out in the Canadian context and explores education's uneasy mandate, as agent of socialization, with the subject of religion (education, instruction and beliefs). Second, the presence or absence of children's voices is examined in litigation involving the place of religion in public schools. Legal storytelling can provide an important vehicle by which to discuss these nuanced stories about religion and education. An examination of the jurisprudence and an extensive review of the court records and legal proceedings reveal that formal law and litigation are rarely sufficient to engage in discussions of religious diversity in public schools. Indeed, within the context of these legal disputes, children's voices are oftentimes subdued or non-existent. Third, this dissertation maintains that internal decisions in school contexts, prior to litigation, reveal greater attentiveness to religious diversity and children's voices through their administrative make-up, organizational politics and internal codes of conduct. Schools represent microsystems worthy of their own consideration, and constitutive of their own rules and relationships. Accordingly, we can understand and engage with schools in terms of what this dissertation refers to as "complex constitutions". Within this framing, this dissertation argues that schools as 'complex constitutions' provide a deeply relational approach to rule- and decision-making, built on the power of relationships. This work proposes that schools as constituting complex constitutions underscores that the issue of diversity in schools needs to be taken more seriously as sites of decision-making rather than spaces of accommodation." --

Download or read book In Defence of Religious Schools and Colleges written by Elmer John Thiessen and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2001 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is often argued that religious schools and colleges promote intolerance, divisiveness, and fanaticism and that they violate the principle of academic freedom. Some writers also suggest that economic support for religious schools by the state violates the principle of the separation of church and state. Elmer Thiessen provides a philosophical defence of religious schools and colleges against these and other standard objections. He concludes with a radical proposal: a pluralistic educational system will better prepare students for citizenship in pluralist liberal democracies than a monopolistic state-maintained school system. In placing his argument within the context of liberal-democratic values Thiessen gives concrete examples of objections to religious schools and offers practical suggestions that follow from the philosophical treatment of the problem. In Defence of Religious Schools and Colleges bridges the gap between philosophical argument and educational practice. It will be of interest not only to philosophers and educational theorists but also to practitioners in education. Academics, policy makers, political theorists, lay-people, teachers, administrators, and parents – those who object to religious schools and colleges and those who find themselves trying to answer the objections – will benefit from reading this book.

Download or read book Religion and Canadian Party Politics written by David Rayside and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2017-06-07 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Religion is usually thought of as inconsequential to contemporary Canadian politics. Religion and Canadian Party Politics takes a hard look at just how much influence faith continues to have in federal, provincial, and territorial political arenas. Drawing on case studies from across the country, this book explores three important axes of religiously based contention in Canada. Early on, there were the denominational distinctions between Catholics and Protestants that shaped party oppositions. Since the 1960s, a newly politicized divide opened between religious conservatives and political reformers. Then from the 1990s on, sporadic controversy has centred on the recognition of non-Christian religious minority rights. Although the extent of partisan engagement with each of these sources of conflict has varied across time and region, this book shows that religion still matters in shaping party politics . This detailed look at the play of religiously based conflict and accommodation in Canada fills a large gap and pulls us back from overly simplified comparisons with the United States. More broadly, this book also compares the role of faith in politics in Canada to that of other Western industrialized societies.

Download or read book Christian Higher Education in Canada written by Stanley E. Porter and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2020-11-17 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Toronto 2018 Symposium on Christian Higher Education provided an opportunity for leaders in the Canadian Christian higher education movement to reflect deeply on its development, current reality, and future possibilities. The Canadian Christian higher education scene comprises a wide range of institutions, including Christian universities, Bible colleges, and seminaries and graduate schools. Each type has its own distinctive history and likewise represents both challenges and opportunities. Even though they are intertwined in their common purpose, these higher educational institutions express this purpose in various ways. This volume is a collection of the papers and plenary talks designed to share the content of the symposium with a wider audience. The papers are all written by active scholars and researchers who are connected to the member institutions of Christian Higher Education Canada (CHEC). They not only illustrate the quality of the scholarship at these institutions, but they make their own critical contribution to an ongoing discussion regarding the role and place of Christian higher education within the wider society. This volume is intended to be helpful to students, faculty, staff, board members, and supporters of Canadian and other Christian higher education institutions, as well as interested individuals and scholars.

Download or read book Church State in Canadian Education written by Charles Bruce Sissons and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A clear straightforward and objective statement which places the development of education in Canada, by Provinces, in its historical framework. The author illuminates the whole subject and makes clear how the essential features of our various systems have evolved. He examines individual rights, affirmed in the Canadian Consitution, as distinct from special privileges to minority groups, and the extent to which over the years these fundamental rights have been overlooked in provinicial legislation and rescued in the courts"--Jacket.

Download or read book Religious Education and the Anglo World written by Stephen Jackson and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-03-31 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on Australia, Canada, and New Zealand, Religious Education and the Anglo-World examines the relationship between empire and religious education. Demonstrating close historical connections between case studies, the work calls for a transnational approach to the study of religious education.