Islamic Identity, Postcoloniality, and Educational Policy

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.

• 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.