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Article: Pre-service teachers' knowledge about Islam: a snapshot post September 11, 2001.
- Article from:
- Journal of Instructional Psychology
- Article date:
- September 1, 2002
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Pre-service teachers responded to a twenty-item survey on the topic of Islam. The survey was designed to both assess their knowledge about Islam as well as to gauge their reaction to Islam in the wake of the events of September 11, 2001. An analysis of the 218 responses indicate that many of the pre-service teachers in the sample lack a rudimentary knowledge as to the nature of the Islamic faith as well as the global nature and influence of Islam. In addition the survey responses suggest that the majority of this sample of pre-service teachers did not grasp the diverse nature of Islam. Although pre-service teachers' responses concerning how they would treat Muslim students ...