Teaching about Islam in the Social Sciences: Request for Case Studies
Web link: www.heacademy.ac.uk/ourwork/universitiesandcolleges/islamicstudies
The Centre for Sociology, Anthropology and Politics http://www.c-sap.bham.ac.uk/ invite you to consider submitting a case study describing teaching you currently do which is related to the study of Islam. A fee of £250.00 will be paid to those whose proposal for a case study is successful in being commissioned and accepted for inclusion in the final portfolio of case studies. The case studies will form part of a resource bank being developed by a national Islamic network for learning and teaching.
Background
Following recommendations from the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) a team from across the HEA subject network is working to build a national Islamic Studies network in order to:
• Support academics working in different disciplines or institutions, including those who are currently working in isolation;
• Provide opportunities to share good practice;
• Develop an enhanced picture of the provision of Islamic Studies in UK HE;
• Build on work carried out since the designation of Islamic Studies as a strategically important subject;
• Establish UK higher education as an exemplar for Islamic Studies in Europe.
As a part of this wider project, C-SAP is developing a resource base for academic staff who are considering teaching about Islam within their social science curriculum. As part of this project we are keen to capture existing good learning and teaching practices related to Islam in sociology, anthropology, politics and criminology. We would like to share existing practice with other colleagues in all three discipline areas. This may take the form of a module that you have devised and teach upon or it may be one element within a mould or course design. This could be at undergraduate or post graduate level.
We are seeking 12 to 15 such examples. A report, and, with your permission, these pro-forma, will appear on the C-SAP and HEA web-sites in June 2010. The report will provide staff teaching in the social sciences with a series of case studies and ideas for incorporating the teaching of Islam within the curriculum.
What to do next
Professor Max Farrar has been employed as an Associate by C-SAP to oversee this work. If you are interested in forwarding a case study, please use the proforma document and forward to Max at
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Please also contact Max for further information about this project.
When proposals are accepted, the deadline for submitting case studies is the 30th May 2010.
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