Danish Teachers’ Attitudes towards Muslim Integration into Danish Society (symposium 1467)
Conference:
ECER 2009
Format:
Symposium Paper

Session Information

07 SES 02 B, Islamic Teachers in Difficult Times

Symposium

Time:
2009-09-28
11:15-12:45
Room:
HG, HS 32
Chair:
Stefan Thomas Hopmann
Discussant:
Ednan Aslan

Contribution

Everyone agrees that formal schooling is the primary social agent for nurturing social and civic integration. Accordingly, teachers are the linchpins for inculcating all the necessary values for integration. Hence, one question is: What do teachers actually believe about the integration of Muslims into the community and in the schools? Results from this survey provide some comparative answers from Denmark, a country of about five million that faces the same workforce requirements and cultural dilemmas accepting larger number of Muslim members as other European countries:  Danish teachers generally agree that students need to learn tolerance for all religions, to reject violence, to treat everyone without prejudice, and to learn the value of individual rights and freedoms––the standard values formal schooling seeks to inculcate. Such agreements are also in conformity with Danish educational standards. But while expressing these supportive values, respondents do not as eagerly believe that Muslim students will integrate successfully into Danish society, and in general do not want to increase the Muslim immigrant community to satisfy the labor shortage. The results of the survey as well as additional research on this issue will be presented.

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Author Information

Danish School of Education Aarhus University
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Arizona State University

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