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Assalamualaikum WBT. Alhamdulillah, Solatan wa salaman ‘ala Rasulillah. Amma ba’du.Alhamdulillah, like everyone else, I benefited a lot from watching Sheikh Ramzy Ajem’s lecture, plus the handbook on Islamic Pedagogy which after its completion and perhaps made available into public, will definitely fill the current vacuum in Islamic Education. From Sheikh Ramzy’s lecture, he outlined…
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Assalamualaikum WBT. Dear teacher and friends. Alhamdulillah. Solatan wa salaman ‘ala Rasulillah. It is a blessing from Allah for allowing me to continue the journey with ITEP which has now embarking our third and last modul, C103K. May Allah guide us and make the path fruitfully smooth and effective. What is teaching if it…
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Nowadays in our country, integrated schools are flourishing everywhere. The word ‘integration’ becoming a hot item on sales. Perhaps in the ‘educational business’. The term ‘integrated’ led the parents to imagine how nice to have their children to go to only one school which provides everything. The academic is there, the religious study is…
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Assalamualaikum wa Rahmatullah wa Barakatuh. I am working on integrating History subject in our school, KMSS, with Islamic World View. Currently, we are following IGCSE module for History but we found several major concerns: Students are not familiar with the topics which are not in our national mandated curriculum. (American Civil War, Modern History…
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Assalamualaikum WBT. Alhamdulillah. Solātan wa salāman ‘alā Rasulillāh. Ammā ba’d. The lecture given by Sister Susan Doughlas introduced me to a very important civic framework which is timely and critically needed. Taking religion as real, important and nevertheless relevant in this public square modern life, she has summarized many important guidelines for teaching of…
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credit photo: sg.theasianparent.com “Ali, would you answer my question. What do you understand… the differences between Prophet and Messenger?” ask the teacher. Wait. Before Ali answers the teacher’s question, what do you think about Ali’s feeling? Does he like the teacher more or less when the teacher asked him like that? Putting him at risk…
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Assalamualaikum WBT. Alhamdulillāh. Solātan wa Salāman ‘alā Rasulillāh. Amma ba’d. The complexity of Islamic education requires some paradigm shiftings. Rather than seeing the differences as an obstacle, we should reexamine the way we perceive it, based on the Quranic guideline, and some historical experiences. وَلَوْ شَاءَ اللَّهُ لَجَعَلَكُمْ أُمَّةً وَاحِدَةً وَلَٰكِن لِّيَبْلُوَكُمْ فِي مَا…
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Mr. Greg Beiles, Toronto, Canada Assalamualaikum WBT. Dr. Seema and colleagues, brothers and sisters. 1. BENEFITS FOR ISLAMIC SCHOOLS Firstly, the two videos gave us a good understanding on what is going on in other faith based schools. In a country like Malaysia, we do not have Jewish School, a very few Catholic schools and…
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Can the learning of Fiqh being transformed from a teacher centered essentialism into a learner centered progressivism? I don’t have an immediate answer. But what I understand from the Sirah, it was obvious that during the time of the Prophet Muhammad PBUH, there was no text books, no structured course outline, no standardized assessments.…
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Today, I had a chance to cover a class as a substitute teacher because she had a problem with her car on the way to the school. I didn’t prepare anything, only to understand just couple of minutes before the class begin, that its a Fiqh Mu’āmalāt class and topic to be covered is…