Agency within relationality: Formations of a dialogic Muslim-self
Join this event to hear Farah Ahmed draw on a Bakhtinian ontology, putting it into conversation with neo-Ghazalian and Akbarian thought on relationality and selfhood.
Agency within relationality: Formations of a dialogic Muslim-self
15 Nov 2023, 17:30 – 19:15
In this seminar, she will explore the Islamic conceptualisations of personal agency and selfhood in a secular-liberal context.
She will theorise shakhsiyah Islamiyah as an educational aim that addresses the challenge of Muslim selfhood in a modern and postmodern world. A Vygotskian lens allows the development of a pedagogical approach that meets this educational aim.
This in-person event will be particularly useful for researchers and teachers who are interested in the idea of rationality, self-hood and agency and Vygotskian philsophy.
PESGB seminar series
This event is part of the Philosophy of Education Society of Great Britain (PESGB) seminar series. PESGB is a learned society that promotes the study, teaching and application of philosophy of education. Its London Branch hosts seminars every Wednesday in conjunction with the Centre for Philosophy of Education. These seminars are led by national and international scholars in the field, covering a wide range of issues of educational and philosophical concern.
All are welcome to attend.
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Farah Ahmed
Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow
the Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge
Her current project is: Rethinking Islamic education for British Muslim children: a philosophical investigation of dialogue in Islamic educational theory and an empirical study trialling dialogic pedagogy in Muslim educational contexts.
She has published widely on holistic Islamic educational approaches and is founder and Director of Education at Islamic Shakhsiyah Foundation. She is also Founding Fellow of the Chartered College of Teaching.