Students will critically and comparatively explore the notion of pedagogic practice within diverse Muslim historical and contemporary cultural settings with the view of examining the role of gender, learner agency, values and ethics of teacher-student relations. The emphasis will be on exploring the modules of learner-led critical and reflective pedagogies in Islamic and western educational thought. Students will be encouraged to consider the implications of their inquiries for the pedagogic creativity and development in contemporary Islamic educational practice.

By the end of the module, students should be able to:

• Develop critical, comparative understanding concerning the values and principles informing major perspectives developed to interpret the concept of pedagogy in Islamic and western educational traditions.
• Apply a systematic knowledge and critical understanding of selected areas in Islamic pedagogy to historical and contemporary issues, demonstrating knowledge of current reserach debate and methodological awareness in relation to the use of historical methods, nature of historical analysis and inquiry and, historiography-based research approaches in Islamic Education.
• Critically analyse the relationship between identity formation, intercultural awareness and educational process within diverse historical and Islamic pedagogic practices.
• Indepenedently gather, organise and critique research data related to historical and contemproary Islamic pedagogic practices gathered from a broad range of primary and secondary sources, communicating concisely in writing using sophisticated concepts and vocabulary relevant to Islamic Educaiton and proposing new hypotheses where appropriate.
• Critically consider the implications of pedagogy-focused interdisciplinary research for professional/vocational context of Islamic Educational practice where appropriate.

Syllabus

Working within the context of workshops, independent study and group-supported seminars each course participant will be required to identify issues of practical professional relevance with the context of their personal and individual experience developing competence for research-based reflective practice through academic exploration and illumination by means of historical research approaches.

Participants are encouraged to consider the implications of their specific inquiries using diverse historical approaches and methods for the contemporary theory and practice of Islamic Education.

Within this context of independent study and group-supported seminars, each course participant will be required to develop knowledge of research literature relevant to the identified issues.

The course content is designed to provide access to a range of historical, textual, cultural and educational research methodologies capable of exploring and illuminating research questions including references to:

• Interdisciplinary research methods in understanding diverse pedagogies practices in historical and contemporary Islamic Education.
• Exploring critical, comparative understanding concerning the values and principles informing major perspectives developed to interpret the concept of pedagogy in Islamic and western educational traditions.
• Reflect on the nature of historical thinking and employing critical historical study methods, research designs in critical and contemporary framework in Islamic Education.
• Explore stages of historical formation of educational and pedagogic thought, practice and institutions within diverse geographical locations and cultural contexts informing Islamic Education studies.
• Explore a range of methods and approaches such as historical-textual hermeneutics, sources-criticism, biographical, archival research, historiography, psychohistory and oral history in the study of pedagogic practices, principles and values in Islamic Education.
• Critically consider pedagogic challenges facing modern Islamic edcuational practice in Muslim majority and minority communities.
• Critically analyse the relationship between identity formation, intercultural awareness and educational process within diverse historical and Islamic pedagogic practices.

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