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This book explores the problems and challenges that come with new knowledge, biotechnological advancement and societal transformation facing Muslims, and to identify the processes towards reformation that impinge on the philosophies (both Western and Islamic), religious traditions and spirituality, learning principles, curriculum, and pedagogy.
List of contents
Acknowledgements
Contributors
Reviewers
Introduction (Mukhlis Abu Bakar)
Part I: SOCIAL, POLITICAL AND CULTURAL CONTEXTS
1. Challenges to madrasah education in contemporary Muslim societies (Noor Aisha Abdul Rahman)
2. State, community and madrasah reform in India (Arshad Alam)
3. Resistance to reform? The Pakistani madaris in historical and political perspective (Christopher Candland)
4. Modernising madrasah education: The Singapore ‘national’ and the global (S. Gopinathan)
5. Muslim schools in Britain: Between mobilisation and incorporation (Nasar Meer and Damian Breen)
Part II: CURRICULUM AND PEDAGOGY
6. Reconceptualising madrasah education: Towards a radicalised imaginary (Yusef Waghid)
7. Developing Shakhṣiyah Islāmīyah: Personalised character education for British Muslims (Farah Ahmed and Tahreem Sabir)
8. Integrating an Islamic Studies curriculum in both religious and secular classrooms in an American school (Habeeb Quadri)
9. Integrated and holistic Islamic education curriculum: The Singapore madrasah model (Farah Mahamood Aljunied and Albakri Ahmad)
10. The Islamic Studies education curriculum of Malaysian national schools: A study of its philosophy and content (Rosnani Hashim)
Part III: ISSUES IN EDUCATIONAL REFORMS
11. Policy borrowing in madrasah education: The Singapore experience (Charlene Tan and Diwi Binti Abbas)
12. Curriculum reform in the Indonesian madrasah: The position of madrasah in the post-independence’s education system (Raihani)
13. Development of Madrasah Education in Bosnia and Herzegovina (Dina Sijamhodžić-Nadarević)
14. Reform in madrasah education: The South Africa experience (Yusef Waghid)
15. Madrasah education and Muslim communities in Hong Kong (Wai-Yip Ho)
About the author
Mukhlis Abu Bakar is Associate Professor at the Asian Languages and Cultures Academic Group, National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.
Summary
This book explores the problems and challenges that come with new knowledge, biotechnological advancement and societal transformation facing Muslims, and to identify the processes towards reformation that impinge on the philosophies (both Western and Islamic), religious traditions and spirituality, learning principles, curriculum, and pedagogy.
