Abdul-Halim, Ahmad al-Mahdi. “The Desired Features in the Islamic Educational Discourse,” Year 8, Issue 29 (Summer 1423 AH/ 2002 CE), Pp. 71-97.

Abstract

Ahmad Abdul-Halim’s article addresses the challenges facing the Islamic educational discourse, starting with setting the terms of the discourse, education, and Islam. It then presents the desired features of the discourse such as the diversity of the discourse, its form, and rationality. It discusses the pivotal questions: “why do we learn?”; “what to learn?”; “how to learn?”; and “how to evaluate the learning process?”. It also discusses the expressions: “learn to know,” “learn to work,” “learn to be,” and “learn to share with others.” It refers to the importance of the “hidden curriculum” which the student absorbs from values, beliefs, ideas, and standards of conduct that are not public. It then addresses educational research as a fabric that integrates understanding and comprehension, description, diagnosis, and treatment of positions and their development so as to be more productive.