Teachers’ professional attitudes toward Muslim religious norms
Studying the organizational context of moral position-taking
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 22019639 |
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| Authors | Annika Koch (University of Potsdam, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 14 |
| Issue | 1-2025 |
| Pages | 58 |
| Publication date | 2025-05-21 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | ZISU – Zeitschrift für interpretative Schul- und Unterrichtsforschung (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2191-3560 • E-ISSN: 2195-2671 |
| Publisher | Verlag Barbara Budrich GmbH (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.3224/zisu.v14i1.04 |
| OpenAlex | W4410565288 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 12 |
Many studies to date have shown how teachers disadvantage Muslim students due to unconscious bias. Much less is known about how teachers’ attitudes are influenced by the organizational context of their schools. I aim to contribute to filling this research gap by analyzing interviews with teachers at high schools with a large share of Muslim students. I show how my interview partners were forced to position themselves according to the religious norms of their students and the secularized Christian norms that are often taken for granted in the German school system. My interview partners adopted various ethical perspectives. However, their positioning was always ambivalent and linked to both recognizing their students’ backgrounds and distancing themselves from this
Business · Political science · Sociology · Education and Islamic Studies · History · Islamic Studies and Radicalism · Psychology · Qur’anic Interpretation Studies · Social Psychology
| Highly cited | No |
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