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URL:https://www.ukfiet.org/events/barriers-to-quranic-education-reform-fin
 dings-from-senegal-and-niger/
SUMMARY:Barriers to Qur’anic education reform: findings from Senegal and 
 Niger
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday 1 April\, 11:00-12:30 GMT\nREGISTER HERE\nGSRC\, Arts C
  / Zoom Webinar\nDr Shona Macleod is a postdoctoral Research Fellow in the
  Rights Lab at the University of Nottingham\, where she is part of a colla
 borative project exploring the practice of begging by young boys studying 
 in traditional Qur’anic schools in Niger. This work builds on her doctor
 al studies\, which focused on three interventions targeting Qur’anic sch
 ools in Senegal\, demonstrating the power of discourse to shape interventi
 ons and how NGOs and state actors engage Qur’anic teachers. Shona has al
 so spent several years working in child rights and international developme
 nt NGOs in Senegal and in the UK\, and she has previously taught at King
 ’s College London and at SOAS\, where she completed her PhD.\nIn many pa
 rts of West Africa with significant Muslim populations\, numerous young bo
 ys (known as talibés) are required to beg alongside studying in residenti
 al traditional Qur’anic schools. These schools are excluded from the nat
 ional education systems in most of the region. Yet in recent decades\, sev
 eral countries have attracted international funding for the development of
  hybrid forms of education uniting Qur’anic and secular education – an
  approach framed as ‘modernisation’ in Senegal\, and ‘renovation’ 
 in Niger. Drawing insights from qualitative data collected in 2017/18 in S
 enegal and in 2024 from Niger\, the presentation will examine how these pr
 ojects have unfolded in the two countries. It will draw attention to the d
 ifferences between the variations of the hybrid education approach and obs
 tacles to implementation in each context. Ultimately it will demonstrate t
 hat hybrid education approaches are unlikely to provide a solution to the 
 problem of widespread begging by talibés.\nWe look forward to having you 
 join us for this event! If you have any queries\, please email cie@sussex.
 ac.uk. Or visit: Centre for International Education\, University of Sussex
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