Sarfaroz Niyozov
Biographic Data
| ID | 165327 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sarfaroz Niyozov |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sarfaroz |
| FAMILY NAME | Niyozov |
| SIGNATURE | NIYOZOV S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Toronto |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6486-6362 |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 50 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Policy approaches to Russian language education across Georgia, Kazakhstan, and Latvia
This study examines and compares policy approaches to Russian language education across Georgia, Kazakhstan, and Latvia, currently independent states, but formerly under Soviet rule and subject to Russification. Using post-colonial and sociolinguistic theory in addition to thematic analysis of 12 laws and policy documents, the study reveals three distinct trajectories reflecting differing geopolitical orientations toward Russian. All three promot…
Middle-class parental engagement in pandemic times
Despite the rhetoric of 'we are all in this together' during the COVID-19 pandemic, not all families experienced schooling disruption in 2020-2022 equally. middle-class parents typically enjoy significant advantage over parents in working-class occupations. To illuminate class-based differences in parental engagement during the COVID-19 pandemic, here we present data from interviews with 15 middle-class Canadian parents. We found that middle-clas…
Barriers and Facilitators for Academic Success and Social Integration of Refugee Students in Canadian and US K–12 Schools
Despite the status of Canada and the United States as major destinations for refugees worldwide, school-age refugee children in their K–12 schools continue to face significant challenges. To better understand barriers and facilitators for refugee students after resettlement, we carried out a meta-synthesis of 34 peer-reviewed articles that shed light on the educational experiences of refugee students in this geographic context. Our analysis shows…
Globalization on the Margins
Reflecting on almost three decades of postsocialist transformations, the second edition of Globalization on the Margins explores continuities and changes in Central Asian education development since the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, with a particular focus on the developments that took place since the production of the first edition in 2011. Rather than viewing these transformations in isolation, the authors place their analyses within…
Introduction to Special Issue
This special issue focuses on critical perspectives in the emerging field of Islamic education globally
Returning to Our Pasts, Engaging Difficult Knowledge, and Transforming Social Justice
Our dilemma of representing concepts through the use of these words emerges as a result of the expansion and contestation of meanings and manifestations of the concept due to inevitable subjectivity of human understanding and the spread of discourses about justice. We are aware that justice is a social construct that reflects a basic human instinct or ideal of fair treatment and access to rights and opportunities. At the same time, we recognize t…
Towards Justice, Inclusion, and Hope
This issue of Curriculum Inquiry brings together four seemingly disconnected articles that, after a thorough reading, reveal a number of valuable common insights: rethinking the assumed about our m
Perspectives on Pedagogy
For this review issue, we invited scholars who have made a significant contribution to the understanding of and engagement with pedagogical theory and practice to write what we called a “self‐refer
Islamic Education and Islamization
Drawing on a number of primary and secondary sources, the paper identifies major perspectives and debates on themes, issues, challenges, developments important in the field of Islamic education. Against the backdrop of the rise of religious discourse and politics in the public sphere, this paper (i) discusses the sources and evolution of the concept of education as a discipline in the Muslim world; (ii) situates Islamic education within the wider…
Teachers and Teaching Islam and Muslims in Pluralistic Societies
Teachers’ Perspectives on the Education of Muslim Students
This article builds on an extensive review of the comparative and international literature on teachers’ perspectives on the education of Muslim students in public, Catholic, and Islamic schools. Bringing the teachers’ voices and practices to the attention of researchers, policy makers, and general readers, the authors emphasize the centrality of teachers’ roles in the education of Muslim students, highlight the constructive and positive work that…
How NGOs React
Understanding Teaching Beyond Content and Method
(2008). Understanding Teaching Beyond Content and Method: Insights from Central Asia. European Education: Vol. 40, No. 4, pp. 46-69
Trading or Teaching
The paper discusses the effects of the collapse of the Soviet Union on teachers' life and work in Badakhshan and Osh provinces of Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan. Challenging some of the assumptions of the Soviet studies about the interaction between teaching and other sources of moneymaking by teachers, the paper illustrates continuities and changes in the pre-Soviet, Soviet and post-Soviet times in terms of role, nature, forms, and ethics of trading …
Teachers’ Perspectives on the Education of Muslim Students
This article builds on an extensive review of the comparative and international literature on teachers’ perspectives on the education of Muslim students in public, Catholic, and Islamic schools. Bringing the teachers’ voices and practices to the attention of researchers, policy makers, and general readers, the authors emphasize the centrality of teachers’ roles in the education of Muslim students, highlight the constructive and positive work that…
Islamic Education and Islamization
Drawing on a number of primary and secondary sources, the paper identifies major perspectives and debates on themes, issues, challenges, developments important in the field of Islamic education. Against the backdrop of the rise of religious discourse and politics in the public sphere, this paper (i) discusses the sources and evolution of the concept of education as a discipline in the Muslim world; (ii) situates Islamic education within the wider…
Returning to Our Pasts, Engaging Difficult Knowledge, and Transforming Social Justice
Our dilemma of representing concepts through the use of these words emerges as a result of the expansion and contestation of meanings and manifestations of the concept due to inevitable subjectivity of human understanding and the spread of discourses about justice. We are aware that justice is a social construct that reflects a basic human instinct or ideal of fair treatment and access to rights and opportunities. At the same time, we recognize t…
Perspectives on Pedagogy
For this review issue, we invited scholars who have made a significant contribution to the understanding of and engagement with pedagogical theory and practice to write what we called a “self‐refer
Teachers and Teaching Islam and Muslims in Pluralistic Societies
Trading or Teaching
The paper discusses the effects of the collapse of the Soviet Union on teachers' life and work in Badakhshan and Osh provinces of Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan. Challenging some of the assumptions of the Soviet studies about the interaction between teaching and other sources of moneymaking by teachers, the paper illustrates continuities and changes in the pre-Soviet, Soviet and post-Soviet times in terms of role, nature, forms, and ethics of trading …
Understanding Teaching Beyond Content and Method
(2008). Understanding Teaching Beyond Content and Method: Insights from Central Asia. European Education: Vol. 40, No. 4, pp. 46-69
Middle-class parental engagement in pandemic times
Despite the rhetoric of 'we are all in this together' during the COVID-19 pandemic, not all families experienced schooling disruption in 2020-2022 equally. middle-class parents typically enjoy significant advantage over parents in working-class occupations. To illuminate class-based differences in parental engagement during the COVID-19 pandemic, here we present data from interviews with 15 middle-class Canadian parents. We found that middle-clas…
Towards Justice, Inclusion, and Hope
This issue of Curriculum Inquiry brings together four seemingly disconnected articles that, after a thorough reading, reveal a number of valuable common insights: rethinking the assumed about our m
Trading or Teaching
The paper discusses the effects of the collapse of the Soviet Union on teachers' life and work in Badakhshan and Osh provinces of Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan. Challenging some of the assumptions of the Soviet studies about the interaction between teaching and other sources of moneymaking by teachers, the paper illustrates continuities and changes in the pre-Soviet, Soviet and post-Soviet times in terms of role, nature, forms, and ethics of trading …
How NGOs React
Understanding Teaching Beyond Content and Method
(2008). Understanding Teaching Beyond Content and Method: Insights from Central Asia. European Education: Vol. 40, No. 4, pp. 46-69
Teachers’ Perspectives on the Education of Muslim Students
This article builds on an extensive review of the comparative and international literature on teachers’ perspectives on the education of Muslim students in public, Catholic, and Islamic schools. Bringing the teachers’ voices and practices to the attention of researchers, policy makers, and general readers, the authors emphasize the centrality of teachers’ roles in the education of Muslim students, highlight the constructive and positive work that…
Teachers and Teaching Islam and Muslims in Pluralistic Societies
Islamic Education and Islamization
Drawing on a number of primary and secondary sources, the paper identifies major perspectives and debates on themes, issues, challenges, developments important in the field of Islamic education. Against the backdrop of the rise of religious discourse and politics in the public sphere, this paper (i) discusses the sources and evolution of the concept of education as a discipline in the Muslim world; (ii) situates Islamic education within the wider…
Towards Justice, Inclusion, and Hope
This issue of Curriculum Inquiry brings together four seemingly disconnected articles that, after a thorough reading, reveal a number of valuable common insights: rethinking the assumed about our m
Perspectives on Pedagogy
For this review issue, we invited scholars who have made a significant contribution to the understanding of and engagement with pedagogical theory and practice to write what we called a “self‐refer
Returning to Our Pasts, Engaging Difficult Knowledge, and Transforming Social Justice
Our dilemma of representing concepts through the use of these words emerges as a result of the expansion and contestation of meanings and manifestations of the concept due to inevitable subjectivity of human understanding and the spread of discourses about justice. We are aware that justice is a social construct that reflects a basic human instinct or ideal of fair treatment and access to rights and opportunities. At the same time, we recognize t…
Globalization on the Margins
Reflecting on almost three decades of postsocialist transformations, the second edition of Globalization on the Margins explores continuities and changes in Central Asian education development since the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, with a particular focus on the developments that took place since the production of the first edition in 2011. Rather than viewing these transformations in isolation, the authors place their analyses within…
Introduction to Special Issue
This special issue focuses on critical perspectives in the emerging field of Islamic education globally
Barriers and Facilitators for Academic Success and Social Integration of Refugee Students in Canadian and US K–12 Schools
Despite the status of Canada and the United States as major destinations for refugees worldwide, school-age refugee children in their K–12 schools continue to face significant challenges. To better understand barriers and facilitators for refugee students after resettlement, we carried out a meta-synthesis of 34 peer-reviewed articles that shed light on the educational experiences of refugee students in this geographic context. Our analysis shows…
Middle-class parental engagement in pandemic times
Despite the rhetoric of 'we are all in this together' during the COVID-19 pandemic, not all families experienced schooling disruption in 2020-2022 equally. middle-class parents typically enjoy significant advantage over parents in working-class occupations. To illuminate class-based differences in parental engagement during the COVID-19 pandemic, here we present data from interviews with 15 middle-class Canadian parents. We found that middle-clas…
Policy approaches to Russian language education across Georgia, Kazakhstan, and Latvia
This study examines and compares policy approaches to Russian language education across Georgia, Kazakhstan, and Latvia, currently independent states, but formerly under Soviet rule and subject to Russification. Using post-colonial and sociolinguistic theory in addition to thematic analysis of 12 laws and policy documents, the study reveals three distinct trajectories reflecting differing geopolitical orientations toward Russian. All three promot…
Political science (12 works) · Sociology (12 works) · Social science (9 works) · Law (8 works) · Law (6 works) · Pedagogy (6 works) · Curriculum (4 works) · Education and Islamic Studies (4 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · Islam (4 works)