Module Leader: Abdullah Sahin

Core module PGA Islamic Education, Optional Core module for MA Islamic Education: Theory and Practice

This module will enable you to develop knowledge, understanding and critical insights into the fundamentals of Islamic educational thought, practice and values. You will demonstrate competence to think educationally about Islam and show reflective engagement with critical issues and challenges informing contemporary practice of Islamic Education. You will form your own philosophy of education by critically engaging with both the Islamic and Western traditions of educational thought and pedagogic practice, and critically explore the inter-disciplinary nature of Islamic Education with a special emphasis on the relevance of empirical research methodologies in the field.

Topics include:

• Conceptual analysis of central terms in educational theory;
• Examining diverse perceptions of Islamic Education;
• Philosophical/historical and theological foundations of Muslim educational thought;
• Educational aims and values in diverse traditions of education in Islam;
• Exploring organisation of curriculum, teaching and learning methods in diverse formal and informal Islamic educational settings,
• Critical Issues/challenges facing Islamic Education in contemporary Muslim minority and majority societies,
• Developing scholarly and empirical research strategies in Islamic Education.