1st Edition
Muslim Education in the 21st Century Asian perspectives
Muslim Education in the 21st Century reinvestigates the current state of affairs in Muslim education in Asia whilst at the same time paying special attention to Muslim schools’ perception of educational changes and the reasons for such changes. It highlights and explores the important question of whether the Muslim school has been reinventing itself in the field of pedagogy and curriculum to meet the challenges of the 21st century education. It interrogates the schools whose curriculum content carry mostly the subject of religion and Islam as its school culture. Typologically, these include state-owned or privately-run madrasah or dayah in Aceh, Indonesia; pondok, traditional Muslim schools largely prevalent in the East Malaysian states and Indonesia; pesantren, Muslim boarding schools commonly found in Indonesia; imam-khatip schools in Turkey, and other variations in Asia.
Contributed by a host of international experts, Muslim Education in the 21st Century focuses on how Muslim educators strive to deal with the educational contingencies of their times and on Muslim schools’ perception of educational changes and reasons for such changes. It will be of great interest to anyone interested in Asian and Muslim education.
Madrasah Education in Bangladesh: Contestations and Accommodations
Ali Riaz
Contemporary Madrasas and Contested Modernities: Educational Reform in Pakistan
Shiraz Thobani
The Role, Developments and Challenges of Islamic Education in China
Charlene Tan & Ke-jia Ding
From Jingtang Education to Arabic School: Muslim Education in Yunnan
Ma Xuefeng
Pendidikan Islami (Islamic Education): Reformulating a New Curriculum for Muslim Schools in Aceh, Indonesia
Eka Srimulyani & Sa’eda Buang
Crafting a New Democracy: Civic Education in Indonesia Islamic Universities
Elisabeth Jackson & Bahrissalim
The Hikmah (wisdom) Program: A Philosophical Inquiry for the Teaching of Islamic Education
in Malaysia
Rosnani Hashim, Suhailah Hussien & Juhasni Adila Juperi.
Coming to Grips with Modernization: The Teens aL.I.V.E. Programme and the Teaching of Sadaqah (giving of alms)
Phyllis Ghim-Lian Chew
Confronting and Integrating Modernity: Religious Education and Curriculum Reforms in Turkey
Seyfi Kenan
Pedagogical Innovations and the Reinvention of 'Old' Pedagogy in Muslim Schools in Russia
Aelita Miniyanova
Biography
Sa’eda Buang is a senior lecturer with the Asian Languages and Cultures Academic Group at the National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.
Phyllis Ghim-Lian Chew is an associate professor at the Department of English Language and Literature, National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.
The nature of Islamic religious education in a number of settings makes this a useful reference text for any reader interested in religious education. - Professor Dr Maya David Nee Khemlani, University of Malaya
A fascinating insight into religious education. This book travels the Islamic world in Asia with educational and cultural politics interlaced. - Emeritus Professor Raj Brown, Royal Holloway University of London
