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38, No. 5, October 2012, pp.

Since the late s, phenomenological approaches were introduced into religious education in Britain, Europe and Australia (Thobani ).

In this study the guidelines of the League of Nations, UNESCO and the Council of.

Shiraz Thobani explores the role played by national and local policies and pedagogic practices in the production of school-based Islam in a secular, liberal.

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Shiraz Thobani () attributes Islam's centrality and significance in modern times to the long, historical engagement of Muslims, spanning some

881–884 BOOK REVIEWS Islam in the school curriculum: symbolic pedagogy and cultural claims Shiraz Thobani, 2010 London, Continuum 288 pp. ISBN 978-1-4411-0007-8 (hbk) Islam in the school curriculum is a timely and unique sociological examination of curricular and pedagogical challenges to the presentation of Islam, and Muslims more generally, within the British educational context.

Grounded within Bernstein’s conceptualisation of cultural categories and Bourdieu’s theory of cultural reproduction, the aim of this study was to demonstrate how changes to educational programmes over the past century have endeavoured to innovate, relativise and domesticate ideas that may be considered dangerous to British identity and social cohesion.

This study is particularly relevant today because about 1.7 million Muslims live in Britain from South-East Asia, t