The ARK Approach to Teaching American History
In the previous two blog posts, we took a look at how we approach teaching the history of the Islamic world and the West within our integrated Islamic studies curriculum.…
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Teaching the History of the Western World Alongside the History of the Islamic World
In the previous blog post, we took a look at how we approach teaching the history of the Islamic world within our integrated Islamic studies curriculum. In this blog post,…
Teaching the History of the Islamic World
In today’s blog post we’ll take a look at how we teach the history of the Islamic world as part of our integrated Islamic studies curriculum. This part of our…
Distinguishing Features of the ARK Curriculum – Part III
This post continues–and concludes—our three-part series covering some of the key distinguishing features of ARK Academy’s Islamic studies curriculum. In Part I, we examined how our curriculum is being designed…
Distinguishing Features of the ARK Curriculum – Part II
In our previous blog post, we shared how ARK Academy’s Islamic studies curriculum is designed with two distinguishing features in mind: (1) the avoidance of heavy repetition (across years of…
Distinguishing Features of the ARK Curriculum – Part I
Before we began designing ARK Academy’s Islamic studies curriculum, we reviewed a variety of Islamic studies curricula and consulted published research assessing such curricula (Memon, N. et al. 2021). This…
Introducing the ARK Academy Curriculum Blog
As the Islamic studies curriculum designer at ARK Academy, I’m excited to launch a regular blog series describing the work we are doing on developing a brand new integrated curriculum…