@article {Okuma-Nyström:2005:0726-2655:83,
title = "External Effects on the State and Muslim Parents Educational Strategies: Cases from Two Gambian Villages",
journal = "Education and Society",
parent_itemid = "infobike://jnp/es",
publishercode ="jnp",
year = "2005",
volume = "23",
number = "2",
publication date ="2005-01-01T00:00:00",
pages = "83-98",
itemtype = "ARTICLE",
issn = "0726-2655",
eissn = "2201-0610",
url = "https://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/jnp/es/2005/00000023/00000002/art00006",
doi = "doi:10.7459/es/23.2.06",
keyword = "The Gambia, Mulsim parents, curriculum, Muslim schools, government schools",
author = "Okuma-Nystr{\"o}m, Michiyo Kiwako",
abstract = "In The Gambia, the past few decades have seen a rapid increase in enrolments in Western-style schools, where elements of Koranic teachings were introduced in 1977. On the other hand, Muslim parents in rural areas are often hesitant about enrolling their children in a Western-style school.
Such parents prefer to enroll their children in a madrassa, which is a modern type of Islamic school. The objectives of the study are to present views of villagers in two case study villages in The Gambia with regard to the Western-style school and the madrassa. The adopted methods were questionnaires
to heads of the household of the two villages, and in-depth interviews with selected heads of households. The findings are interpreted in the educational realities in The Gambia that are affected by external effects on the Gambian state.",
}