Browsing by Author "Patel, Nafisa"

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    Islamic feminist reflection of pedagogy and gender praxis in South African madaris.
    (2013) Patel, Nafisa; Shaikh, Sa'diyya
    This thesis explores gender discourses in elementary Islamic learning institutions in South Africa. Informed by a feminist imperative that recognizes education to be both a site for gender struggle and also a tool for change-making, this thesis adopts a feminist pedagogical approach to examine some of the ways that young Muslim girls in South Africa learn about being gendered. Drawing on theoretical insights from feminist poststructuralism, I analyze the contents of a popular learning text that has been developed for young Muslim girls in contemporary South African Deoband mad'ris (elementary religious schools).