Research Article
Female Students’ Dilemma of Wearing Islamic Headscarf
@INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/eai.23-3-2019.2284950, author={R Rusmawati and S Herminingrum}, title={Female Students’ Dilemma of Wearing Islamic Headscarf}, proceedings={First International Conference on Advances in Education, Humanities, and Language, ICEL 2019, Malang, Indonesia, 23-24 March 2019}, publisher={EAI}, proceedings_a={ICEL}, year={2019}, month={7}, keywords={la\~{n}cit\^{e} islamic headscarf law dated march 15-2004 maghrebi immigrant}, doi={10.4108/eai.23-3-2019.2284950} }- R Rusmawati
S Herminingrum
Year: 2019
Female Students’ Dilemma of Wearing Islamic Headscarf
ICEL
EAI
DOI: 10.4108/eai.23-3-2019.2284950
Abstract
Young immigrants in France should attend the school as they are part of citizens of France. However, the female students who wear Islamic headscarf—that are distinctive from their fellows—can potentially cause a problem in relation to the government’s effort in realizing national integrity and enforcing secular principles. Thus, this study uses Van Kaam's Phenomenological Method in order to reveal the purpose and the process of compromising towards the ratification of the French government law dated March 15, 2004. The data was collected through ten-participant observation and in-depth interviews for four months in 2003 with high school Muslim female students of Maghrebi descent who wear Islamic headscarf in the Ile-de-France province. The strong cultural education in their family put them into a dilemma between wearing the Islamic headscarf and taking it off. However, their compromise arises from their hope for a better future through school.