Islamic Identity, Postcoloniality, and Educational Policy Schooling and Ethno-Religious Conflict in the Southern Philippines

by Milligan, Jeffrey Ayala

• ISBN13: 9781403963512
• ISBN10: 1403963517
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-08-01
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

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.

Author Biography

Jeffrey Ayala Milligan is Assistant Professor in the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies, Florida State University. He is the author of Teaching at the Crossroads of Faith and School.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	ix
Introduction: Education and Ethno-Religious Conflict in Postcolonial Spaces	1	(18)
Chapter 1 Precolonial Culture and Education in the Southern Philippines	19	(26)
Chapter 2 Pedagogical Imperialism: American Education of Muslim Filipinos, 1898-1935	45	(40)
Chapter 3 Faith in School: Educational Policy Responses to Muslim Unrest in the Philippine Republic	85	(30)
Chapter 4 We Sing Here Like Birds in the Wilderness: Education and Alienation in Contemporary Muslim Mindanao	115	(32)
Chapter 5 Postcolonial Pragmatism	147	(36)
Notes	183	(20)
Bibliography	203	(12)
Index	215