Citizen Identity Formation of Domestic Students and Syrian Refugee Youth in Jordan: Centering Student Voice and Arab-Islamic Ontologies (by Patricia K. Kubow)

Abstract

Patricia K. Kubow’s Citizen Identity Formation of Domestic Students
and Syrian Refugee Youth in Jordan: Centering Student Voice and Arab-
Islamic Ontologies is a relatively short but dense work of applied educational
philosophy that, in the author’s words, “. . . traces the social ontologies
of Arab schoolchildren using philosophical inquiry as opposed to solely
political frameworks’’ (Kubow, p. 2). Her study focuses on Jordan’s idiosyncratic
dual-shift schooling system, where Syrian refugee students attempt
to maintain their ontological security within a Jordanian school system.
The ensuing conflict, as it manifests in the lives of the numerous students
Kubow interviews, creates a rich ground for studying policy, education, and
child voices in a world often discussed with children as passive objects.