Spirituality in Teacher Training at an Islamic College in Israel

Bibliographic Data

ID12814786
AuthorsL Erdreich (0000-0002-5005-1784, Levinsky College of Education, corresponding author)
Year2016
Volume10
Issue1
Pages1-13
Publication date2016-01-02
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueDiaspora Indigenous and Minority Education (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1559-5692 • E-ISSN: 1559-5706
PublisherTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/15595692.2015.1084921
OpenAlexW2251612874
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited36

This article looks at an Islamic teacher training college in Israel in an attempt to understand how religious revival shapes women’s understandings of being Muslim women professionals in Israel. The college grew out of Islamic revival in Israel; its teacher training program reflects the sensibilities that Islamic revival hopes to foster in women who study there and in the children they will teach. The article is based on ethnographic research at the college. Adopting a theoretical approach to spirituality as a cultural phenomenon, experienced as authentic, yet culturally informed, can serve as a powerful resource for creating social meaning and as a source of pedagogies of change. I illustrate the means by which the institution makes space for a spirituality that infuses teacher training with a sense of social purpose, civil commitment, and personal unity with the divine

Ethnography · Institution · Islam · Meaning (existential · Pedagogy · Psychotherapist · Social science · Sociology · Spirituality · Theology · Training (meteorology · Anthropology · Education and Islamic Studies · Gender Studies · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Jewish Identity and Society · Medicine · Psychology

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