Aims and benefits of the conference include?
1. Explore the development of Islamic education in the West
2. Identify and explore ways of engaging with the key issues facing Islamic education
and Western education ideas
3. Provide an opportunity to network and dialogue theoretical and practical issues
4. Explore challenges and opportunities for the future development of Islamic education
into different pedagogical models
Workshops, key note speeches, panel discussions
and plenary sessions covering the following:
- History and defining Islamic Education in the West
- Challenges and ways forward
- Models of Islamic Education from Europe and sharing good practice
- Teaching & learning linked to Qur’an
- Educational Leadership
- Textbooks and Islamic curriculum
This conference is open to academics, practitioners, researchers,
community leaders and anyone interested in finding out more about
Islamic education.
Speakers and contributers include:
- Dr. Abdullah Sahin [Markfield Institute of Higher Education [MIHE], Leicester]
- Amina Shaker [Director of Akademie für Islamische Religionspädagogik [IRPA], Vienna/Austria]
- Dr. Farid Panjwani [Institute of Education, [IOE]]
- Professor Muhittin Okumuşlar [University of Konya,Turkey]
- Dr. Philip Lewis [University of Bradford]
- Professor Mark Halstead [University of Huddersfield]
- Professor W.Meijer [University of Groningen/ Netherlands]
- Dr. Jenny Berglund [Södertörn University, Sweden]
- Dr. Bill Gent [Warwick University]
