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07 SES 12 A, Muslim Pupils in European Schools
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This paper reports on the meaningfulness Muslim pupils in Catholic Malta, attach to their education in a Muslim independent school. These pupils desire to be fully participative in the West (Saeed, 2009). They wish to live a Muslim lifestyle without racial or religious harassment or discrimination. The school offers them a place to establish their identities away from the assimilating Catholic public and church schools. They describe how interaction with their Catholic teachers, adherence to the Maltese National Minimum Curriculum, learning of the Muslim way of life and values, and of Islamic Studies, make this school ‘a beautiful place’. Projects and practices that transverse the curriculum illustrate that being in a minority faith school is not an obstacle to the pupils’ sense of belonging to a wider national, and Western, demos. Rather, it is from this place that they can acquire a Maltese Muslim identity. Where there are obstacles to this participation, they come from outside the school. Saeed, A. (2009) Muslims in the West and their attitudes to full participation in Western societies: some reflections, in Brahm Levey, G. and T. Modood (Eds.) Secularism, Religion and Multicultural Citizenship, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press
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