Pedagogies of Turkish Mosque Education in the Netherlands

Abstract This is a study of mosque pedagogies and their relevance for the formation moral political identity Turkish-Dutch youth. Based on fieldwork in two mosques affiliated with Milli Görüş Diyanet Netherlands, identifies three different practiced classrooms: pedagogy national building, unorthodox bonding, formation. The findings show that teaching activities both contain messages pertaining to citizenship norms values areas such as interaction between genders, ideas crime, justice punishment, relationship authority boundaries individual autonomy. Apart from auxiliary use Dutch copying schools’ motivation discipline strategies, we did not find specific aspects education was provided. intention create pious nationalist diaspora youth common denominator mosques.