- Keywords: Equity, policy, education, anti-racism.
- Timeline: Late 1990s-Early 2000s.
- Summary: According to Zine: “This paper problematizes the politics of inclusion in education by examining how minority groups in Toronto attempted to ‘negotiate equity’ in response to the school board’s release of a draft policy on anti-racism and ethno-cultural equity in education. A competing policy challenging the specific focus on race, ethnicity and ‘faith communities’ as being ‘too narrow’ argued that the notion of equity should be broadly constructed to accommodate the categories of other ‘historically disadvantaged groups’, such as women, the disabled, and gays and lesbians, under a single, comprehensive policy” (p. 240).
Zine, J. (2001). Muslim youth in Canadian schools: Education and the politics of religious education. Anthropology and Education Quarterly, 32, 399-423.
- Keywords: Muslim, education.
- Timeline: Late 1990s.
- Summary: Zine summarizes the paper as follows: “This article provides an ethnographic analysis of the schooling experiences of Muslim youth in Canada who are committed to maintaining an Islamic lifestyle despite the social pressures of conformity to the dominant culture” (p. 399). Towards the end of the paper, Zine notes: “The narratives of Muslim students and parents speak powerfully and poignantly about the ways in which they attempted to negotiate their religious identities within the context of a secular school system, despite having to contend with peer pressure, racism, discrimination, and Islamophobia” (p. 418).
