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2nd Annual Australian Islamic

Schooling Conference

CONFERENCE PROGRAM

Day 1 Program

8:00am - 8:30am Registration Desk Open

8:30am - 8:35am Recitation of Qur’an Shaykh Amin (Al Khalil Mosque)

8:35am - 8:40am Welcome to Country Rod O’Brien, Senior Kaurna Man who is current Chairperson of Kaurna Native Title and Kaurna Language Committees

8:40am - 8:45am Overview of the role and importance of Education in the modern context

The Honourable Dr Susan Close, Minister of Education & Child Development

8:45am-8:50am Welcome to conference and introducing UniSA Professor David Lloyd, Vice Chancellor, UniSA

8:50am-9:00am Conference Opening & introducing EDS and CITE

Professor Stephen Dobson, Dean & Head of School of Education, UniSA

9:00am-9:05am Conference Overview Professor Mohamad Abdalla, Director of CITE and Conference Convenor

9:05am – 10:00am

Q & A (15 mins)

Keynote Address 1

Dr Nadeem Memon - Director of Education, Abu Dhabi University, UAE.

Chair: Professor Stephen Dobson, Dean & Head of School of Education, UniSA

10:00am – 10:30am Morning Tea

10:30pm – 12:00pm

(30 mins presentations, 15 mins Q & A for each presenter)

Plenary Session 1: Curriculum Conceptualisations

1. Australian Curriculum: Overview and Future Directions - Dr Deborah Price, Senior Lecturer at UniSA and Executive Member at the Australian Curriculum Studies Association (ACSA).

2. Islamic World View and the National

Curriculum: Can they be reconciled? - Mr Dylan Chown, Director Islamic Education, CITE, UniSA.

Panel Chair: Professor Seema Imam (Co-Chair National College of Education, at National Louis University, USA).

12:00pm – 1:30pm

(30 mins presentation, 15 mins Q & A for each presenter)

Plenary Session 2 Contemporary Models

1. Curriculum in Australian Islamic Schools:

Trends and Future Prospects - Ms Aynur Simsirel, Principal Advisor, Independent Schools of Victoria and former Executive Principal of Ilim College.

2. Teaching Islam as part of the curriculum in an Islamic School in Australia - Dr Peter Jones, The Friends' School, Hobart, Tasmania.

Panel Chair: Dr Deborah Price, Senior Lecturer at UniSA and Executive Member at the Australian Curriculum Studies Association (ACSA)

1:30pm – 2:30pm Lunch and Salah1

2:30pm – 4:00pm


Plenary Session 3 Learning from other Contexts

1. Islamic Education Curriculum: the USA

experience - Dr Tasneema Ghazi, IQRA’ International Educational Foundation, USA.

2. Integration efforts in the North American

Context: Professor Seema Imam (Co-Chair National College of Education, at National Louis University).

Panel Chair: Mr Abdullah Khan, Executive

Principle, Australian Islamic College, Perth

4:00pm – 4:30pm Afternoon Tea

4:30pm – 5:00pm Day 1 Summary and Wrap up Collective discussion

4:45pm END OF DAY 1

7:00pm CONFERENCE DINNER Mt Lofty House

Shaykh Muhammad Abdullah – Elder, educator, community advocate and PhD candidate.

1 Duhur Salah 12.21 PM; Asr 3:02 PM; Maghreb 05:21 PM

Day 2 Program

8:30am – 8:50am Registration Open

8:50am - 9:00am Welcome Day 2 Professor Mohamad Abdalla, Director of CITE, UniSA and Conference Convenor

9.00am – 10:00am

Q & A (15 mins)

Keynote Address 2:

Speaker: Professor Seema Imam (Co-Chair National College of Education, at National Louis University)

Chair: Ms Helen Schiele, Senior Advisor,

Independent Schools, Victoria.

10.00am – 10.30am Morning Tea

10:30am – 12:00pm


Plenary Session 4

Responsive Pedagogies

1. Culturally Responsive Pedagogies - Professor Lester-Irabinna Rigney, UniSA.

2. Islamic community schools in Australia: a case of a contextually responsive curriculum – Dr Ibrahima Diallo, Research Centre for Languages and Cultures, UniSA

Panel Chair: Mr. Andrew Houghton, Principal, Al Siraat College

12:00pm - 1:30pm


Plenary Session 5

Debates and contested spaces

1. Tahfizh Curriculum: A Sociological

Approach – Dr Muhammad Zuhdi, Vice Dean for Academic Affairs at the Faculty of Education, State Islamic University (UIN) Syarif Hidayatullah Jakarta

2. The Islamic Education Curriculum in the

Sultanate of Oman Integrating diversity – Dr Anke Iman Bouzenita and Dr Mohsin al-Salimi, Sultan Qaboos University

Panel Chair: Mr Fazeel Arian, College

Director, Al Siraat College

1:30pm-2:30pm Lunch & Salah

2:30pm – 4:00pm


Plenary Session 6

Curriculum renewal

1. What would an Islamic school Arabic curriculum look like? Ms Nadia Selim, PhD Candidate, CITE, UniSA and Associate Professor Angela Scarino

2. National Islamic studies curriculum: Process, expectations, quality control: Prof Mohamad Abdalla, Director of CITE, UniSA

Panel Chair: Dr Ibrahima Diallo, Senior Lecturer at the School of Communication, International Studies and Languages, UniSA

Vice Chancellor’s welcome to Australian Islamic Schooling Conference

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4:00pm – 4:15pm Afternoon Tea

4:15pm – 5:00pm Panel Discussion

The Way Forward

Panel Chair: Professor Mohamad Abdalla, Director of CITE, UniSA and Conference Convenor

1. Dr Nadeem Memon 2. Professor Seema Imam 3. Ms Aynur Simsirel 4. Mr Muhammad Abdullah

5.00pm – 5:10pm Conference Summary Mr. Dylan Chown, Program Director, Islamic Education, CITE, UniSA

5:10pm – 5:15pm Vote of thanks and End


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• Good morning

• I am Professor David Lloyd, Vice Chancellor and

President of the University of South Australia.

• We are Australia’s University of Enterprise which means

we partner with industry, the professions, other

institutions and centres of academic excellence

nationally and internationally,

• to equip our students with the knowledge, skills and

capabilities necessary for successful citizenship in a

complex global society.

• A multicultural, multifaith society.

• Over the next two days you will hear from a number of

international speakers with impressive credentials who

will help enlighten you on a variety of contemporary

issues in Islamic education.


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• Many of them work here at UniSA and all of them will

share their ideas on ensuring the future of curriculum in

Islamic schooling in the West.

• As I stated in my welcome notes for this Conference,

education is a universal truth – truth, insight and

knowledge are the common bedrocks of human

civilisation.

• As a university we have the obligation to help extend

the depth and breadth of human understanding,

• and that cannot be confined to people who think alike

and who share similar histories.

• It is through education and research that our Centre for

Islamic Thought and Education (CITE) works to broaden

perspectives and so advance a deeper understanding of

Islam and Muslims and their place in Australia and the

modern world.


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• It is only through education and research that we can

build the interconnectedness between Islam and the

West,

• and the work that educators do to build and strengthen

this interconnectedness is what we are all here for.

• But it’s pointless to talk about education without talking

about those who deliver it,

• and this is where the University of South Australia

makes such a difference.

• We teach the teachers.

• And you will meet some of our best thinkers on the

topic of education,

o Professor Stephen Dobson, Dean and Head of our

School of Education;


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o Professor Lester Irabinna Rigney and Dr Deborah

Price, also from our School of Education;

o Associate Professor Angela Scarino from our School

of Communication, International Studies and

Languages;

o Dr Ibrahima Diallo from UniSA’s Research Centre

for Languages and Cultures;

o And, of course, Professor Mohammad Abdalla,

Director of the Centre for Islamic Thought and

Education and his colleagues, Dylan Chown,

Director of Islamic Education at the Centre and

Nadia Selim, a PhD Candidate at that Centre.

• Each, in his or her own way, is dedicated to education.


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• To quote UniSA’s Emeritus Professor Alan Reid who is

one of Australia’s foremost educational thinkers,

• If education is central to the growth of individuals and

the development of the economy and Australian

democracy, then the capacity of the teaching force is at

the heart of the education process.

• The teachers of today are a new breed and they’re

facing a whole new world.

• Central to your deliberations over this next couple of

days will be themes such as:

o Conceptualisations;

o Theories;

o Debates and contested spaces;

o Historical models;

o Analyses of contemporary models;

o Analyses of inter-faith perspectives;


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o Curriculum, assessment and pedagogy; and

o Leadership for quality curriculum.

• I believe the next two days will be enlightening

• I hope that your academic research and teaching will

have a positive impact on the community, with the

media and with government and non-government

organisations.

• I hope it is also an opportunity to ensure that education

leads to a focus on genuine and meaningful engagement

between the Muslim and non-Muslim communities.

• And that information and education can help better

bridges of understanding within our community.

• Enjoy your time together.

• Thank you.


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