Education in the Sudan
The privileging of an Islamic discourse
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11920133 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Anders Breidlid (0000-0002-7859-0691, OsloMet – Oslo Metropolitan University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2005 |
| Volume | 35 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 247-263 |
| Publication date | 2005-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Compare A Journal of Comparative and International Education (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0305-7925 • E-ISSN: 1469-3623 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/03057920500212530 |
| OpenAlex | W2077862349 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 11 |
| References cited | 12 |
This article examines the educational discourse in the part of the Sudan administered by the Government of the Sudan. It first analyses the value system upon which the Sudanese education is based by focusing on the nature of Islamism. Such a discussion is necessary because the dominant discourse is a discourse where power and Islamic theocracy legitimise each other and spill over into the educational discourse. Given the ethnic and religious complexity in the Sudan the imposition of a fundamentalist Islamic discourse is fiercely contested. The second part of the article, therefore, discusses the educational discourse of the government and relates it to the oppositional discourses in the country. It pays particular attention to the homogenising efforts of the dominant discourse to eradicate difference as a constituting factor in the Sudanese education system. The attempts to recognise difference have not led to a fundamental negotiation of the consequences of Islamism in the official school system
Civil discourse · Discourse analysis · Ethnic group · Government (linguistics · Islam · Islamic culture · Islamic Education · Linguistics · Negotiation · Political economy · Political science · Power (physics · Social science · Sociology · Theocracy · Value (mathematics · African history and culture analysis · Gender Studies · History · Law · Religion and Sociopolitical Dynamics in Nigeria · Religious Education and Schools
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| Unique citing works | 11 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,52 |
| Citation span | 2005 - 2023 (19) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 11 |