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Re/Mapping Islamic School Curriculum
2nd Annual Australian Islamic Schooling Conference!University of South Australia !
July 11-12, 2017!Nadeem Memon
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Approaches to Islamic Studies Curriculum
Appended Integrated Transformative1980s 1990s 2000s
- Add subject !
- Beliefs and practices
!- Religious
environment !
- Catholic school model
- Islam across curriculum
!- Theme-based
!- Character
focus !
- IB school model
- Islamic lens !
- Worldview driven
!- Principled
living !
- Aboriginal Ed model
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Approaches to Islamic Studies Curriculum
Appended Integrated TransformativeMost Common Most Aspired Oft Experimented
- Add subject !
- Beliefs and practices
!- Religious
environment !
- Catholic school model
- Islam across curriculum
!- Theme-based
!- Character
focus !
- IB school model
- Islamic lens !
- Worldview driven
!- Principled
living !
- Aboriginal Ed model
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Achievements Islamic Education
Engaging
Authentic
Relevant
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Achievements Islamic Education
Islamic Studies Standardized Test
National Islamic Studies Standards (NISS)
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How has curriculum been mapped?
What’s included and what’s left out?
What’s the end goal?
Key Curriculum Questions for Islamic Education
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Curriculum Contentions
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Reconsider spiral curriculum modelContention One:
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Spiral Curriculum Model
The same topics are introduced to students each year with increasing complexity while reinforcing previous learning.
Breadth Over Depth
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Example: Punctuation
• Year 1: Full stops, question marks and exclamation marks!
• Year 2: Capital letters for proper nouns and commas in lists!
• Year 3: Word contractions and apostrophes !
• Year 4: Quotation marks!
• Year 5: Apostrophes for possessive nouns !
• Year 6: Commas to separate clauses
ACARA V8.3 F-10
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Example: Seerah
Year 1: Prophet is born, family, companions, prophecy !
Year 2: Year of the elephant, orphan, praised child, marriage !
Year 3: Prophecy, early Muslims, struggle, Isra wal mi'raj!
Year 4: Hijrah (Makkah to Madinah), Badr, Uhud!
Year 5: Muslims under siege, Khandaq, Salman Al Farisi!
Year 10: Life Story of the Prophet Muhammad
I Love Islam Series My Islamic Books
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Example: Wudu’
• Year 2: Correct steps of wudu’!
• Year 3: Nullifies wudu’ !
• Year 4: taharah (purity) versus najasa (impurity) !
• Year 5: Meaning and rules of zakah !
• Year 6: Ghusl, wudu’, tayammum
National Islamic Studies Standards
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Daughter responds: “We’re still learning
about wudu’.”
Father asks daughter: !How’s your Islamic
Studies class? What are you learning these
days?
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Mastery Curriculum Model
A mastery-based curriculum model is concentric: knowledge and skills are presented as foundational and become the prior knowledge all students share.
Curriculum is developed from a core outward
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Mastery-Based Alternative
Year 6: Life of the Prophet - Overview!
Year 7: Companions of the Prophet !
Year 8: Women in early Islam !
Year 9: Revelation and preserving the Qur’an !
Year 10: Spread of Islam after the Prophet !
Year 11: World history pre-Islam!
Year 12: World history since the Prophetic Era
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Mastery-Based Alternative
Gr. 2
Gr. 3
Gr. 4
Gr. 5
Gr. 6
Prayer
Fasting
Pilgrimage
Alms-Giving
Oneness
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Traditional Islamic Sciences
Memorization
Grammar
Fiqh / Law
Aqida / Belief
Hadith
1
2
3
Introduction
Intermediate
Advanced
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Is the spiral model stretching out key content and concepts in Islamic Education to the
detriment of mastery?
Key Question for Consideration
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Skills have been underemphasizedContention Two:
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Knowledge
Skills
Attitudes
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K
S
A
Ibadaat, Seerah, Fiqh, Aqida, Sunnah
Akhlaaq, Tarbiyah, Adab
Memorization, Logic, Rhetoric, Grammar
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–Sajiqli Zada (Ottoman Educational Theorist)
“The investigations of the Islamic sciences are virtually incomprehensible to anyone who does not possess knowledge of [logic, rhetoric, and
dialectics] these sciences.”
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Lost Tools of LearningA Personal Story
Perennialism
Sufism
Feminist Readings of the Qur’an
Political Islam
Religious Pluralism
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Stages of development are requiredContention Three:
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Should a 6-year old be introduced to the concept of
God’s wrath?
Question
Day of Judgment Heaven/Hell Punishment
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Play with them for the first 7 years, discipline them for the next 7
years, and befriend them for the 7 years following.
Sayyidina Ali (R.A.)
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Piaget Kohlberg Montessori
Sensorimotor!
Pre-Operational !
Concrete Operational!
Formal Operational
Cognitive Development
Each theory of development provides a justification for what to teach when and why
Moral Development Planes of Development
Obedience and punishment!
!Self-interest !
!Interpersonal and
conformity!!
Authority and order!!
Social contract!!
Principled conscience!
First Plane: Birth to Age 6 (Early Childhood)!
Second Plane: Ages 6–12 (Childhood)!
Third Plane: Ages 12–18 (Adolescence)!
Fourth Plane: Ages 18–24 (Maturity)
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Example: Montessori Second Plane
Ages 6-12
Independence Do for Self
Role Modelling Moral Order Right/Wrong
Learn Through Observation
Model Behaviour Charity
Volunteering Give Space
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Stages of Development Grounded in the Islamic Tradition
Lahou (Play)
Tamyeez (Discernment)
Takleef (Accountability)
Age 0-7 7-14 14-21
Definition Fitrah is raw to be nurtured
Discern harmful Employ modesty
Religious accountability
Curriculum Implications
Nurture fitrah Relationships Memorization Core ‘aqida Stories Play Nature
!!Foundations Core beliefs Qur’an Role modelling !
Application Implementation Fiqh Shariah Mentorship Tafseer Seerah
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Closing Thoughts
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1. Reconsider spiral curriculum model
2. Skills have been underemphasized
3. Stages of development are required
Recap
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1. Curriculum is contested space - we will NOT all agree
2. All progressive education systems undergo curriculum revamp periodically - so should we.
3. Curriculum revamp must be internal and external
Implications
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Considerations Forward
Across Schools !
1. Establish a process
2. Agree on a framework
3. Create curriculum maps
Within Schools !
1. Establish curriculum committee
2. Agree on outcomes
3. Match current curriculum to outcomes
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Acknowledge the Past !
Critique the Present !
Be Apart of the Future