Supporting Modern Teaching in Islamic Schools

Posted on: May 7, 2024

Supporting Modern Teaching in Islamic Schools: Pedagogical Best Practice for Teachers advocates the revamp of the madrasah system and a review of the Islamic curriculum across Muslim countries and emphasises training needs for Islamic teachers for modern instructional practice.

Find out what each of the writers has to say about their chapter.

Book introduction by Ismail Hussein Amzat

Part 1: Content Knowledge, Pedagogy and Teaching Methods

• Sound Pedagogies and Mis-Pedagogies in Teaching Islam: Learning from Canadian Muslim Educators by Claire Alkoutli
• Are Contemporary Islamic Education and their Pedagogical Approaches Fit for Purpose? A Critique and Way Forward by Yahia Baiza
• Environmental Education and Indonesia’s Traditional Islamic Boarding Schools: Curricular and Pedagogical Innovation in the Green Pesantren Initiative by Ahmad Afnan Anshori and Florian Pohl
• Developing an Islamic Teacher: Islamic Cultural Contents in an ELT Textbook in a Muslim High School in Southern Thailand by Yusop Boonsuk and Eric A. Ambele
• Islamic Instruction as a Student-Centred Approach by Samina Malik and Nabi Bux Jumani
• Philosophical Inquiry as a Method for Teaching Islamic Education by Wan Mazwati Wan Yusoff, Juhasni Adila Juperi and Abdul Shakour Preece
• Technology Infusion in the Design of an Impactful Islamic Education Learning Experience by Rosemaliza Binti Mohd Kamalludeen

Part 2: Professional Development, Responsibility and Lifelong Learning

• Measures of Physiognomies in Fostering Islamic Teachers’ Professionalism in Selected Al-Majiri Integrated Model Schools (AIMS) in Sokoto State, Nigeria by Ahmad Tijani Surajudeen
• Enhancing Professionalism in Teaching Islamic Studies through Employment of Adequate Instructional Resources by Jamiu Abdur-Rafiu, U. A. Ajidagba, and Yunus Aliyu
• Improving Islamic Self-Motivation for Professional Development (Study in Islamic Boarding Schools) by Muhammad Anas Ma’arif, Muhammad Mutjaba Mitra Zuana, and Akhmad Sirojuddin
• Islamic Teacher Professionalism: The Role of Family and Society in Teacher Professionalisation by Abulfazl Ghaffari and Dina Yousefi
• Teachers’ Roles in Making Multiple Intelligences Work in Indonesian Muslim Schools by Muhammad Zuhdi and Erba Rozalina Yulianti
• Lifelong Learning among Islamic Studies Teachers: A Path for Professionalism by Merah Souad and Tahraoui Ramdane

Part 3: Islamic Curriculum Reform, Assessment and Islamisation of Knowledge

• Research-Based Reform of Madrasah Curriculum in Bosnia and Herzegovina and its Implications for Fostering Teachers’ Professional Development by Amina Isanović Hadžiomerović and Dina Sijamhodžić-Nadarević
• Arabic Teaching at Australian Islamic Schools: Working with Student Diversity and Curriculum Challenges by Nadia Selim
• Islamisation of Knowledge: A Critical Integrated Approach by Alhagi Manta Drammeh
• Maktab Teachers and Behaviour Education: Ruminations from a Teacher Education Programme in the UK by Imran Mogra
• Islamic Religious Education (IRE) Teachers in the Netherlands: From Tradition-Based to Modern Teaching by Ina ter Avest
• The Role of Supplementary Schools Education in Shaping the Islamic Identity of Muslim Youths in Europe by Mohammad Mesbahi
• Crafting a Strategy to Assess the Learning of Islamic Studies in Elementary Schools byTahraoui Ramdane and Merah Souad