ABSTRACT

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.

chapter |11 pages

Introduction

chapter 1|24 pages

Madrassah education in Bangladesh

Contestations and accommodations

chapter 2|19 pages

Contemporary madrasas and contested modernities

Educational reform in Pakistan

chapter 4|20 pages

From Jingtang education to Arabic school

Muslim education in Yunnan 1

chapter 5|19 pages

Pendidikan Islami (Islamic education)

Reformulating a new curriculum for Muslim schools in Aceh, Indonesia

chapter 6|16 pages

Crafting a new democracy

Civic education in Indonesian Islamic universities

chapter 7|17 pages

The Hikmah (Wisdom) Program

A philosophical inquiry for the teaching of Islamic education in Malaysia

chapter 8|20 pages

Coming to grips with modernization

The Teens aL.I.V.E. programme and the teaching of Sadaqah 1 (giving of alms)

chapter 9|18 pages

Confronting and integrating modernity

Religious education and curriculum reforms in Turkey