When secular and Qur'anic worldviews encounter: Educational experiences in conventional schools and Madrasahs in Hong Kong

When secular and Qur'anic worldviews encounter: Educational experiences in conventional schools and Madrasahs in Hong Kong

• Ho, Wai Yip The Hong Kong Institute of Education
• He, Jiajun Martin
• Ng, Wing Fung

The Hong Kong Sociological Association 17th Annual Conference: Sociological Imagination in a Pluralist World (2015: Hong Kong Shue Yan University, Hong Kong)

• N 學生與學生服務
  • NO 少數民族及移民學生
• P 香港教育各層面與外地之比較
  • PF 宗教與教育；哲學與教育；教育思想
• P 香港教育各層面與外地之比較
  • PH 少數民族的教育、種族及族群因素

• Hong Kong

• 1997.7 onwards

• 未指定或無法歸類

This paper explores teaching and learning experiences concerning young Pakistani Muslims in Hong Kong, who are found simultaneously immersed in two divergent systems of education - first, the conventional daytime schools where students are educated formally with general knowledge, and second, the madrasahs (Islamic learning institutes) where student recite Qur’an and receive religious teachings every day after school. Based on the ongoing ethnographic fieldwork (with methods including participant observation and interviews) in both local conventional schools and madrasahs in Hong Kong, this paper reveals that the three parties involved, namely the Chinese-speaking educators from conventional schools, the Qur’anic teachers from madrasahs (along with the students’ parents, who are often supporters of madrasah education), and the ethnic Muslim students, might have different understanding and expectations on education. This paper further argues that such difference could be a result of contrary worldviews and meanings of life to the two groups of educators, as well as limited communication between the two sides of educational institutes.

Paper presented at The Hong Kong Sociological Association 17th Annual Conference: Sociological Imagination in a Pluralist World, Hong Kong Shue Yan University, Hong Kong.

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會議論文

https://bibliography.lib.eduhk.hk/tc/bibs/0e13169f

2017-07-27