Acculturation and Religion in Schools: The Views of Young People from Minority Belief Backgrounds

Autor/inn/en	Niens, Ulrike; Mawhinney, Alison; Richardson, Norman; Chiba, Yuko
Titel	Acculturation and Religion in Schools: The Views of Young People from Minority Belief Backgrounds
Quelle	In: British Educational Research Journal, 39 (2013) 5, S.907-924 (18 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0141-1926
DOI	10.1002/berj.3016
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Minority Group Students; Religious Cultural Groups; Acculturation; Educational Environment; Interviews; Qualitative Research; Student Attitudes; Educational Policy; Interpersonal Relationship; Motivation; School Culture; Religious Education; Civil Rights Legislation; United Kingdom (Northern Ireland) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Kirchliche Gruppe; Religionszugehörigkeit; Akkulturation; Lernumgebung; Pädagogische Umwelt; Schulumwelt; Interviewing; Interviewtechnik; Qualitative Forschung; Schülerverhalten; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Interpersonal relation; Interpersonal relations; Interpersonelle Beziehung; Zwischenmenschliche Beziehung; psychologische; Motivation (psychologisch); Schulkultur; Schulleben; Kirchliche Erziehung; Religionserziehung; Religionspädagogik; Private law; Bürgerliches Recht
Abstract	This paper aims to explore the relationship between religious identity, acculturation strategies and perceptions of acculturation orientation in the school context amongst young people from minority belief backgrounds. Based on a qualitative study including interviews with 26 young people from religious minority belief backgrounds in Northern Ireland, it is argued that acculturation theory provides a useful lens for understanding how young people from religious minority belief backgrounds navigate majority religious school contexts. Using a qualitative approach to explore acculturation theory enables an in-depth understanding of the inter-relationship between minority belief youth's acculturation strategies and their respective school contexts. Similar to previous research, integrationist attitudes generally prevailed amongst minority belief young people in this study. The findings highlight how young people negotiate their religious identities in a complex web of inter-relationships between their minority religious belief community and the mainstream school culture as represented through peer and staff attitudes, school ethos and practices and religious education. Young people demonstrated differentiated understandings of acculturation orientations within the school context, which they evaluated on the basis of complex perceptions of educational policy, interpersonal relationships and individuals' motivations. Findings are discussed in view of acculturation tensions, which arose particularly in relation to the religious education curriculum and their implications for opt-out provision as stipulated by human rights law. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10