Conference proceeding
Saving Democracy by Saving the Muslim Girl: Norms of Convivencia as Technologies of Exclusion
Proceedings of the 2022 AERA Annual Meeting
01/01/2022
DOI: 10.3102/1895510
Abstract
In 2010, Najwa Malha, a young Spanish woman, was suspended from school in Madrid (Spain) for wearing her hijab. As prescribed by her school’s norms of convivencia, students could not wear head-coverings at school. When Najwa’s parents took the issue to court in Madrid, both the courts ruled against veiling in schools in the name of convivencia. I explore how school norms of convivencia have changed from a normative order, which separated out the responsible citizen’s normal and abnormal attributes, to a moralistic and juridical one, which looked to the legal system to solve all types of educational conflict. It argues that norms of convivencia functions to exclude in the name of inclusion, by creating a boundary between us-them.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Saving Democracy by Saving the Muslim Girl: Norms of Convivencia as Technologies of Exclusion
- Creators
- Belén Hernando-Lloréns
- Resource Type
- Conference proceeding
- Publication Details
- Proceedings of the 2022 AERA Annual Meeting
- DOI
- 10.3102/1895510
- Publisher
- AERA
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 01/01/2022
- Academic Unit
- Teaching and Learning
- Record Identifier
- 9984528104802771
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