Culturally sensitive schooling: understanding Pakistani Muslim parents’ school choices

Naeem, Muhammad and Ovenden-Hope, Tanya (2024) Culturally sensitive schooling: understanding Pakistani Muslim parents’ school choices. Impact - Journal of the Chartered College of Teaching, 22. ISSN 2514-6955 (print) / 2514-6963 (online)

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Abstract

Introduction Culturally sensitive schooling engages with diverse student populations and culturally relevant pedagogical strategies (Berglund, 2015) and embodies cultural responsiveness (Aronson, Amatullah & Laughter, 2016). Meeting the religious and cultural needs of Muslim Pakistani students, and the wider Muslim school community, is challenging for many schools in England. Culturally (in)sensitive schooling is an important consideration for Muslim Pakistani parents when choosing a school that aligns with their beliefs (Banks & Banks, 2015). This study based in Blackburn, Northern England suggests that it is the extent to which a schools’ Religious Education (RE) and Relationships and Sex Education (RSE) curriculum is culturally sensitive that affects Pakistani Muslim parents’ choice or secondary school. Background and policy context In England, the approach of culturally sensitive schooling was developed in the aftermath of the Swann Report ‘Education for All’ (1985). The Swann Report argued for cultural pluralism and opened the door for a range of multiculturalism policies for schools and local authorities (Mathieu, 2018). Cultural pluralism is a setting where a minority group maintains its distinct culture while participating in a multicultural society having a dominant, separate culture (May, 2005). Culturally sensitive schooling posits a curriculum that supports and maintains all religious beliefs and cultural identities of minority groups (Alsubaie, 2015). However, England’s state schools have a curriculum based on Christian and European traditions (Musharraf, 2015). This foundation poses challenges to a culturally sensitive education for Muslim children, particularly in the teaching of RE and RSE.

Item Type:	Article
Keywords:	culturally sensitive schooling, Blackburn, relationships and sex education, religious education, school choice
Depositing User:	Ms Raisa Burton
Date Deposited:	03 Jul 2024 11:27
Last Modified:	19 Sep 2024 10:39
URI:	https://marjon.repository.guildhe.ac.uk/id/eprint/17855

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