Supporting Modern Teaching in Islamic Schools

Ismail Hussein Amzat is an Associate Professor, Kulliyyah of Education in the Department of Social Foundation and Educational Leadership at the International Islamic University Malaysia.

Part 1: Content Knowledge, Pedagogy and Teaching Methods 1. Sound Pedagogies and Mis-Pedagogies in Teaching Islam: Learning from Canadian Muslim Educators 2. Are Contemporary Islamic Education and their Pedagogical Approaches Fit for Purpose? A Critique and Way Forward 3. Environmental Education and Indonesia’s Traditional Islamic Boarding Schools: Curricular and Pedagogical Innovation in the Green Pesantren Initiative 4. Developing an Islamic Teacher: Islamic Cultural Contents in ELT Textbooks in a Muslim High School in Southern Thailand 5. Islamic Instruction as a Student-Centred Approach 6. Philosophical Inquiry as a Method for Teaching Islamic Education 7. Technology Infusion in the Design of an Impactful Islamic Education Learning Experience Part 2: Professional Development, Responsibility and Lifelong Learning 8. Measures of Physiognomies in Fostering Islamic Teachers’ Professionalism in Selected Al-Majiri Integrated Model Schools (AIMS) in Sokoto State, Nigeria 9. Enhancing Professionalism in Teaching Islamic Studies through Employment of Adequate Instructional Resources 10. Improving Islamic Self-Motivation for Professional Development (Study in Islamic Boarding Schools) 11. Islamic Teacher Professionalism: The Role of Family and Society in Teacher Professionalisation 12. Teachers’ Roles in Making Multiple Intelligences Work in Indonesian Muslim Schools 13. Lifelong Learning among Islamic Studies Teachers: A Path for Professionalism Part 3: Islamic Curriculum Reform, Assessment and Islamisation of Knowledge 14. Research-Based Reform of Madrasah Curriculum in Bosnia and Herzegovina and its Implications for Fostering Teachers’ Professional Development 15. Arabic Teaching at Australian Islamic Schools: Working with Student Diversity and Curriculum Challenges 16. Islamisation of Knowledge: A Critical Integrated Approach 17. Maktab Teachers and Behaviour Education: Ruminations from a Teacher Education Programme in the UK 18. Islamic Religious Education (IRE) Teachers in the Netherlands: From Tradition-Based to Modern Teaching 19. The Role of Supplementary Schools Education in Shaping the Islamic Identity of Muslim Youths in Europe 20. Crafting a Strategy to Assess the Learning of Islamic Studies in Elementary Schools