Addressing Islamophobia in Curricula

khaled beydoun

Khaled Beydoun

Workshop Overview:
This workshop was designed to:

  • Initiate an interdisciplinary dialogue on how to better address Islamophobia and various forms of marginality both in theory and practice
  • Develop teaching materials to judiciously integrate Islam and marginality related issues in our curricula.
  • Create resource centers to foster research and educate KSU Community on Islam and Islamophobia.
  • Design short/long term plans to address both in theory & practice Islam and marignality related issues

Presentation:

  • Between Indigence, Islamophobia, and Erasure: Poor and Muslim in 鈥淲ar on Terror鈥� America ()

More Information:

  • Breakout Session: Education

    This session was designed for participants to brainstorm, strategize, and plan new approaches to teaching 鈥榓gainst鈥� Islamophobia in higher education. Additionally, participants collaboratively developed a long term plan to support building critical frameworks for their students. The emphasis was on sustainable, counter- hegemonic pedagogical practices that are cross-disciplinary and inclusive. 

  • Peer Mentoring and Networking

    • Training students
    • Mobilizing pre-existing interests
    • CETL funds/student workers

    Curriculum

    • Stand alone (Gen Ed) course o Unit/module
    • CaseStudies
    • Websites and Resources 
    • Using KSU Avenues (CETL) resources
    • 1st Year Learning Community
    • Conference & Diversity Inclusion
    • Focus on interdisciplinary & intersectional approaches

    Disrupt & Deconstruct/Rebuild & Reconstruct

    • Interdisciplinary Unit
    • On Islam/Islamophobia
    • 鈥楾ake on the road鈥�, Beyond KSU.
    • Intersectional Approaches
    • Disrupt the Binary (Either a 鈥榲iolent extremist鈥� or 鈥榥on-religious moderate鈥�
    • Structural Racism & Discrimination
    • Orientalism
    • Focus on Intersectional Pedagogy
  • This session was designed to place an emphasis on sustainable, counter-hegemonic
    theories that are cross disciplinary and inclusive. Participants brainstormed about research methodologies, available resources and strategized on how to create resource centers to foster research and educate KSU Community on Islam and Islamophobia. Additionally, participants collaboratively developed a long term plan to build critical frameworks that foster students鈥� critical thinking and research skills. 
    • Letti Volpp
    • Asma Barlas
    • Yvonne Haddad
    • Leila Ahmed
    • Sarah Gualtieri
    • Fatima Mernissi
    • Talal Asad
    • Amina Wadud
    • Abdullah An-Naim (Emory)
    • Edward Said
    • Hamid Dabashi
    • Jack Shaheen
    • Mamood Mamadani
    • Mustafa Akyol
    • Sayeed Hussein Nasr
    • Kambiz Ghaneabassi
    • Silvian Diouf
    • Edward Curtis
    • Fear Ink
    • Khaled Abdul El-Fadl
    • Anti Muslim Bigotry
    • Deconstructing the Social Construct (disrupting binary)
    • Using humor
    • Media & Popular Culture
    • Analysis Opp.
    • Connecting through discussions of bias (K-12)
    • Questions at course on Islamophobia
    • Intersectionality
    • Course
    • Unit
    • Resources
    • Case Study
    • Deconstruct
    • Disrupt