Changing attitudes to cultural difference: perceptions of Muslim families in English schools

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Pearce, Sarah and Lewis, Kirstin. 2019. Changing attitudes to cultural difference: perceptions of Muslim families in English schools. Cambridge Journal of Education, 49(1), pp. 1-14. ISSN 0305-764X [Article]

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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/0305764X.2018.1427217

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This article argues that neoliberal and neo conservative schooling policies in England legitimise a long-standing neglect of cultural difference in schools, and are having a particularly damaging effect on Muslim children’s experience of schooling. It offers evidence that relationships between teachers and Muslim families in particular may be becoming more distant, and argues that this is largely a result of a complex series of pressures on teachers’ working lives. Interview data from a small-scale interpretive, empirical study of eight primary teachers suggests that in some schools the most frequent response to issues involving Muslim families is avoidance. We suggest this is because teachers did not see Muslims as individuals, but as representatives of an essentially different group. However, a major finding of our study is that when teachers were able to make connections with families, they gained a more complex understanding of the realities of the Muslim children in their classes.

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https://doi.org/10.1080/0305764X.2018.1427217