Lived Experiences of Muslim High School Students at J.L. Forster Secondary School, Windsor, Ontario, Canada Christopher A. Woodrich International Indonesia Forum/Universitas Gadjah Mada Abstract As international migration increases, questions of cross-cultural understanding and pluralism become increasingly important. People live and learn in heterogeneous communities where some, or even many, members have different ethnic, religious, or socio-economic backgrounds. This article explores the involvement of minority groups in the learning process by discussing the lived experiences of Muslims at J.L. Forster Secondary School, a senior high school in Windsor, Ontario, Canada. A religious minority, Muslim students were nonetheless able to follow their religious guidelines and expectations. They were able to keep hijab, to keep halal, and to worship within the secular school context with little difficulty and without any conflict in values. Although they did not receive a religious education at school, they continued their religious studies in their families and in the mosque. Keywords: Education in Canada, Islam in Canada, lived experiences Introduction As international migration has become ever more common in the globalization, questions of cross-cultural understanding and pluralism have become increasingly important. Communities that are quasi-homogenous, with most or all members practicing the same religion or tracing their heritages to the same regions/groups, are becoming less common. Urban centers—and to a lesser extent rural areas—have become more cosmopolitan as families and individuals have traveled from their places of birth in search of opportunities to work and study. Nowhere is this more clearly illustrated than in countries such as Canada; in 2011, 6,775,770 of the country's residents (20.6% of the population of 33,476,688) were born abroad (Statistics Canada, 2017c). For nearly two decades, migration has been the main contributing factor to Canada's population growth; between 2001 and 2011, about two-thirds of the country's