[Bilimsel Haber] Inviting authors for edited book: Muslim Voices in School

[Sule Tarakcioglu]

*Inviting authors for edited book: Muslim Voices in School*
*Publication Deadline:* 	2007-08-01
*Date Submitted:* 	2007-06-13
*Announcement ID:* 	157065

This is a book about resistance and voice. With this publication, we
seek to advocate the use of “counter-story” narratives utilized to
empower and repair group and individual identities that have been
crafted, and paradoxically damaged, by Western dominant culture. We
believe that our work as academics and educators includes responding to
such dominant group characterizations of Muslim people, by revealing our
individual stories, and our shared narratives, and allowing the reader
an opportunity to hear Muslim voices that are so often muted.

Envisioned is a series of short chapters focusing on school related
narratives that illustrate the depth of cultural plurality among those
who are acculturated Muslims within schools and education in the West.
The idea would be a “handbook” that could be used to educate the reader
about the plurality of Muslim student lives and experiences in the West,
and to foster dialogue in classrooms and in the field of education and
social sciences about anti-racist and critical pluralistic pedagogies,
and the utility of personal narratives as a site of evidence,
empowerment, and emancipation.

We have conceptualized the following thematic clusters for authorship:

# PART 1 – TEACHING, CLASSROOMS, AND THE SCHOOL EXPERIENCE
# PART 2 – CURRICULAR CONVERSATIONS: REPRESENTATIONS IN THE FORMAL,
INFORMAL, AND SOCIETAL CURRICULA
# PART 3 – BEING MUSLIM AND... : THE INTERSECTIONS OF MUSLIM IDENTITY AND
OTHER SOCIAL IDENTITIES

Our timeline is as follows:

# An expression of interest (including a 500 word abstract) *BY: August 1,
2007*
# Chapter draft (complete chapter, 20-22 pp) BY: January 1, 2008
# Completed chapter BY: April 1, 2008
# Book draft to publisher BY: July 1, 2008

We are very excited about this opportunity to provide a rigorous,
academically engaging, and critically rooted book for the field of
Education. We look forward to hearing your expression of interest, and
suggestions for strengthening this project. We would also welcome your
recommendations for authors we should be sure to invite to participate.

With warm regards,
Christopher, Shaheen, and Özlem

	Christopher D. Stonebanks, Ph.D.
Bishop’s University School of Education 2600 College St Sherbrooke, QC
Canada J1M 1Z7 T: 819.822.9600 (2203) E: cstoneba at ubishops.ca

Shaheen Shariff, Ph.D.
McGill University Faculty of Education Dept of Integrated Studies 3700
McTavish St. Montreal, QC Canada H3A 1Y2 T: 514.398.5396 E:
shaheen.shariff at mcgill.ca

Özlem Sensoy, Ph.D.
Simon Fraser University Faculty of Education 8888 University Dr Burnaby
BC Canada V5A 1S6 T: 604.268.6795 E: ozlem at sfu.ca
Email: cstoneba at ubishops.ca <mailto:cstoneba at ubishops.ca>