Islamic identity, postcoloniality, and educational policy : schooling and ethno-religious conflict in the Southern Philippines / Jeffrey Ayala Milligan
The Struggle for Mindanao: Ethno-Religious Identity, National Integrity and Public Education in Post-Colonial Philippines -- Before the Crescent Moon, the Cross or Uncle Same: Education in Pre-colonial Mindanao -- Pedagogical Imperialism: The American Education of Muslim Filipinos, 1898-1920 -- Lifting up Our Muslim Brothers: Public Education and Muslim Integration in the Philippine State -- We Sing Here Like Birds in the Wilderness: Educational Alienation and the Rise of Islamic Identity in the Southern Philippines -- Democratic Education in the Midst of Religious Diversity and Conflict
Summary
For decades successive colonial and independent governments in the Philippines have deployed educational policy as a tool to mitigate conflict between Muslims and Christians, a conflict which has claimed more than 100,000 lives since the 1970s. This book offers a postcolonial critique of this century-long educational project in an effort to understand how educational policy has failed Muslim Filipinos and to seek insight into the potential and pitfalls of educational responses to ethnic and religious tensions
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-213) and index
