Driessen, G. (2001). The evaluation of Islamic schools in the Netherlands. Paper Sixth International Metropolis Conference, Rotterdam, the Netherlands, November 26-30, 2001.
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Geert Driessen (2001) Metropolis The evaluation of Islamic schools in the Netherlands
1. The evaluation of Islamic schools
in the Netherlands
Dr Geert Driessen
ITS – Institute for Applied Social
Sciences
University of Nijmegen
The Netherlands
2. No possibilities to fast and pray
No clothing regulations
Boys and girls mixed
Dissatisfaction with the quality of schools
No parental participation
No attention for sense of identity
No emancipation
Motives for founding Islamic schools
3. Goals of Islamic schools
Cultural and religious personality development
in the spirit if Islam
Improving the quality of education, i.e. the
pupils’ achievement levels
4. Arguments against Islamic schools
They will lead to isolation and segregation
No real justice to Western norms and values
Purely nationality schools
Result in an exodus from existing schools
More an ideological and political affair than a
religious one
For traditional and fundamentalistic groups
5. Design of the study
Study of the literature: the Netherlands and
Western Europe
Quantitative analyses PRIMA cohort study
In-depth interviews headteachers Islamic
schools
7. Research instruments
General questionnaire: background features
Pupil profile: cognitive, non-cognitive features
Parent questionnaire: family situation
Intelligence tests: non-verbal
Performance tests: language, arithmetic
Questionnaire on pupils leaving primary school
School well-being questionnaire
Teacher questionnaire: teaching approach
Headteacher questionnaire: school features