ABSTRACT

This chapter presents individual accounts of six “model” participants. I look at a representative sample that reflects the reality of my participants in terms of gender, demographics, age, and experience with Islamic schooling. These participants stood out by virtue of their willingness to share extensively about their experiences and perspectives on Canadianness, Quebecness, Muslimness, Islamic identity, and Islamic schooling. I included a brief description of each of these “model” participants to help contextualise my analysis in the next two chapters. The chapter is divided into two sections. In each section, I present the views of a parent and two graduates of Islamic schools.