Muslim Education in the 21st Century: Asian perspectives

ISBN-13: 9780415844154 Publisher: Taylor & Francis Publication date: 01/23/2014 Series: Routledge Critical Studies in Asian Education Pages: 224 Product dimensions: 6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d) 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