Re/presenting Islam on campus: gender, radicalisation and interreligious understanding in British higher education

在校园里重新/呈现伊斯兰教：英国高等教育中的性别、激进化和宗教间理解

基本信息

批准号：
AH/M00841X/1
负责人：
Alison Scott-Baumann
金额：
$ 72.47万
依托单位：
School of Oriental and African Studies
依托单位国家：
英国
项目类别：
Research Grant
财政年份：
2015
资助国家：
英国
起止时间：
2015 至无数据
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FM00841X%2F1
关键词：
Re presenting Islam campus gender

项目摘要

Over the last decade the UK university campus has become mired in debates about Islam. Certain crises arouse outrage: the 'underpants' bomber, gender segregation and radicalising speakers. Such episodes are classified as matters for the police and university management. The university sector has not taken a public position about Islam and radicalisation, yet we believe that many staff and students will welcome a better understanding of the situation. Our aims in this research are to analyse Islam on campus and to facilitate open, informed discussion about Islam as an integral aspect of British life and campus life. In the current climate, higher education seems torn between being a provider of world class research (Collini), an accreditor of improved functional workforce capacity (Browne Report) and a dangerous place that requires policing (Quilliam). Each approach can become a stereotype that needs to be challenged. We believe that such confusion must be discussed openly if the university sector is to be fit for purpose: fully ready for an increasing variety of home and international students and an increasingly complex world that incorporates the renaissance in world religions. This ground-breaking research will initially give equal weight to a range of different narratives e.g. from media, academics, Muslim communities, student managers, government and radicalisation experts, in order to gauge their respective credibility and contradictions. Working with 4 universities and one Muslim college affiliated to a university, we will trace and analyse the sources of these different perspectives in dialogue with students, staff and other stakeholders across the HE sector. We will work closely with stakeholders including AMOSSHE (Association of Managers of Student Services in Higher Education), NUS and Islamic societies and Muslim youth organisations, both Sunni and Shi'i. Examining personal views among staff and students alongside 'official' discourses will provide a critical account of how perceptions of Islam play out within university contexts. These views will be collected and analysed using a variety of methods, including an online questionnaire survey to collect statistical data, interviews, focus groups and data visualisation techniques. For university-based impact we will be catalysts for mixed stakeholder groups: students, staff, professional bodies, policy makers and third sector. We will involve them in collecting and disseminating models of good practice, and in the co-production of new solutions.They will interpret data analysis of findings, including using data visualisation, to challenge stereotypes and think afresh in workshops, co-producing recommendations for developing clarity about Islam on campus and about Islamic Studies as a subject. Further impact beyond the university will be achieved by fostering debate and reflection about Islam on campus among local communities and Muslim organisations, seeking open discussion and understanding. Creative interpretation of our findings about perceptions of Muslims will be facilitated in a data visualisation project at the New Arts Exchange (NAE) in Nottingham (www.nae.org.uk), drawing young people into a process of rethinking and reimagining the place of religion within British public life. We will also work with Gladstone's Library http://www.gladstoneslibrary.org/. Like NAE, Gladstone's Library reaches out to minority communities. Each will provide an exemplary case study of organisational interreligious engagement.We will bring together people who never usually meet: academics and stakeholders from universities, community groups from beyond the university, policy makers, devout Muslims and secularists. Well planned involvement and effective knowledge exchange events will help them to develop and then share their practical answers to the challenges facing higher education of radicalisation, gender and interfaith

过去十年来，英国大学校园陷入了关于伊斯兰教的争论。某些危机会引起愤怒：“内裤”炸弹袭击者、性别隔离和激进的演讲者。此类事件被列为警方和大学管理层的事务。大学部门尚未对伊斯兰教和激进化采取公开立场，但我们相信许多教职员工和学生会欢迎更好地了解情况。我们这项研究的目的是分析校园中的伊斯兰教，并促进关于伊斯兰教作为英国生活和校园生活不可或缺的一部分的公开、知情的讨论。在当前的环境下，高等教育似乎在成为世界级研究的提供者（科里尼）、提高职能劳动力能力的认证者（布朗报告）和需要治安的危险场所（奎利亚姆）之间左右为难。每种方法都可能成为需要挑战的刻板印象。我们认为，如果大学部门要实现其目标：为日益多样化的国内和国际学生以及包含世界宗教复兴的日益复杂的世界做好充分准备，就必须公开讨论这种混乱。这项开创性的研究最初将同等重视一系列不同的叙述，例如来自媒体、学者、穆斯林社区、学生管理者、政府和激进化专家的意见，以衡量他们各自的可信度和矛盾。我们将与四所大学和一所大学附属的穆斯林学院合作，通过与高等教育领域的学生、教职员工和其他利益相关者的对话，追踪和分析这些不同观点的来源。我们将与利益相关者密切合作，包括 AMOSSHE（高等教育学生服务经理协会）、新加坡国立大学、伊斯兰社团以及逊尼派和什叶派穆斯林青年组织。将教职员工和学生的个人观点与“官方”话语结合起来，对伊斯兰教的看法如何在大学环境中发挥作用提供批判性的解释。这些观点将使用多种方法收集和分析，包括收集统计数据的在线问卷调查、访谈、焦点小组和数据可视化技术。对于基于大学的影响，我们将成为混合利益相关者群体的催化剂：学生、教职员工、专业机构、政策制定者和第三部门。我们将让他们参与收集和传播良好实践的模型，并共同制定新的解决方案。他们将解释研究结果的数据分析，包括使用数据可视化，挑战刻板印象并在研讨会上重新思考，共同制定以下建议：提高对校园伊斯兰教和伊斯兰研究作为一门学科的认识。通过促进当地社区和穆斯林组织之间关于校园内伊斯兰教的辩论和反思，寻求公开讨论和理解，将实现大学以外的进一步影响。诺丁汉新艺术交流中心 (NAE) (www.nae.org.uk) 的数据可视化项目将有助于对我们关于穆斯林看法的发现进行创造性解释，吸引年轻人重新思考和想象穆斯林的地位。英国公共生活中的宗教。我们还将与格莱斯顿图书馆 http://www.gladstoneslibrary.org/ 合作。与 NAE 一样，格莱斯顿图书馆也向少数族裔社区伸出援手。每个人都将提供组织间宗教参与的典范案例研究。我们将把平时从未见过面的人聚集在一起：大学的学者和利益相关者、大学以外的社区团体、政策制定者、虔诚的穆斯林和世俗主义者。精心策划的参与和有效的知识交流活动将帮助他们制定并分享他们的实际答案，以应对高等教育面临的激进化、性别和跨宗教挑战