Islamic Identity, Postcoloniality, and Educational Policy (2^nd Ed., 2nd ed. 2020) Schooling and Ethno-Religious Conflict in the Southern Philippines Islam in Southeast Asia Series

This book theorizes a philosophical framework for educational policy and practice in the southern Philippines where decades of religious and political conflict between a minority Muslim community and the Philippine state has plagued the educational and economic development of the region. It offers a critical historical and ethnographic analysis of a century of failed attempts under successive U.S. colonial and independent Philippine governments to deploy education as a tool to mitigate the conflict and assimilate the Muslim minority into the mainstream of Philippine society and examines recent efforts to integrate state and Islamic education before proposing a philosophy of prophetic pragmatism as a more promising framework for educational policy and practice that respects the religious identity and fosters the educational development of Muslim Filipinos. It represents a timely contribution to the search for educational policies and practices more responsive to the needs and religious identities of Muslim communities emerging from conflict, not only in the southern Philippines, but in other international contexts as well.  

1. Introduction: Education and Ethno-Religious Conflict in Postcolonial Spaces.- 2. Precolonial Culture and Education in the Southern Philippines.- 3. Pedagogical Imperialism: American Education of Muslim Filipinos, 1898-1935.- 4. We Sing Here Like Birds in the Wilderness: Education and Alienation in Contemporary Muslim Mindanao.- 5. Reclaiming an Ideal: The Islamization of Education in Mindanao.- 6. Understanding the Past, Navigating the Future: Theorizing a Way Forward for Mindanao.- 7. Prohetic Pragmatism: Toward a Bangsamoro Philosophy of Education.  

Jeffrey Ayala Milligan is Director of the Learning Systems Institute and Professor of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies at the Florida State University in Tallahassee, Florida, USA.