scholarly journals When Terror Strikes: The 2015 Paris Attacks in Religious Education Classrooms in Norway

Religions ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 208
Author(s):  
Audun Toft
Keyword(s):  
Religious Education ◽  
Classroom Interaction ◽  
Controversial Issue ◽  
Controversial Issues ◽  
Main Claim ◽  
Terror Attacks ◽  
Pedagogical Issue ◽  
Upper Secondary

Terrorism is commonly considered to be a controversial issue in religious education (RE). RE teachers find it a challenging topic to address, and many avoid it altogether. This article explores the question of addressing terrorism in RE by analysing and discussing empirical observations of RE lessons in an upper secondary school in Norway in the weeks following the terror attacks in Paris in November 2015. Using framing theory, the article discusses aspects of the empirical case study, contextualised by the discussion about controversial issues in education. The main claim of the article is that, rather than seeing the terror attacks as a controversial issue in itself, the terror attacks should be treated as an event that has the potential to tap into several different controversial issues depending on the way it is framed. When addressed in the RE classroom, the teachers actively transform the event into a pedagogical issue, framed in accordance with the nature and aims of the subject. The students, however, often contest this pedagogical framing. This article discusses the interplay between teachers’ plans, students’ reactions, and the role of media in classroom interaction about the Paris attacks.

scholarly journals The Power of a Controversial Issue; The Developmental Power of ‘Disruptive Moments’ for Both—Teachers and Students

Religions ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (6) ◽  
pp. 272
Author(s):  
Ina ter Avest
Keyword(s):  
Identity Development ◽  
Religious Education ◽  
Religious Identity ◽  
Controversial Issue ◽  
Teaching Material ◽  
Controversial Issues ◽  
Contextual Understanding ◽  
Teachers And Students ◽  
Dialogical Self Theory

In Islamic primary education the subject of Islamic Religious Education (IRE) has a prominent place in the curriculum. In knowledge transfer and in behaving as a ‘good muslim’, aspects can be in conflict with generally accepted knowledge or customs in the Netherlands. The focus is on the power of a controversial issue (either or not wearing a head scarf) as a ‘disruptive moment’, stimulating pupils’ religious identity development. An example of recently developed teaching material illustrates the actual didactical approach regarding such a controversial issue. For a contextual understanding we start with a sketch of the Dutch educational system, and the position of Islamic education and its Islamic Religious Education (IRE) therein. In the second paragraph we describe the dialogical self theory (DST). DST’s relational understanding of a child’s development, including the developments regarding keeping a secret. In the third paragraph the case study is described, followed in the fourth paragraph by the introduction of Islamic teaching material and its way of approaching the controversial issue of the case study. We conclude our contribution with a discussion and recommendations for the development of teachers’ competencies in responding to controversial issues.

scholarly journals A developed understanding of the beneficiary’s interest in commercial trusts through a comparative study of Chinese law

2020 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
pp. 343-357
Author(s):  
Ruiqiao Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Study ◽  
Theoretical Basis ◽  
Comprehensive Understanding ◽  
Main Claim ◽  
Chinese Law ◽  
Judicial Interpretations

Trusts have existed for centuries, while societies and economies have developed in the intervening years. This requires renovations, or new judicial interpretations, of what a trust is in order to adapt it to modern circumstances. Based on a discussion about the theoretical basis for the research – the new role of trusts in a commercial context and the essence of the trust – the author provides a developed understanding of the beneficiary’s interest to adjust the traditional trust notions to meet the demands of commercial practices. She argues that, based on a case study of Chinese law, a beneficiary’s right can be explained as a special personal claim consisting of three parts: the main claim (personal claims), appurtenant rights (rights of supervision) and security rights (rights of revocation). The theory of beneficiary’s special personal claim provides a more unified and comprehensive understanding of the nature of the beneficiary’s interest, particularly in newly developed commercial trusts.

scholarly journals Dealing with and teaching controversial issues – Teachers’ pedagogical approaches to controversial issues in Religious Education and Social Studies

2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Karin K. Flensner
Keyword(s):  
Social Studies ◽  
Religious Education ◽  
Classroom Practice ◽  
Middle Eastern ◽  
Controversial Issues ◽  
Anti Semitism ◽  
Religious Conflicts ◽  
Upper Secondary ◽  
Teachers And Students ◽  
Pedagogical Approaches

Abstract What strategies do teachers use, in classroom practice, to handle issues highly contested in society? This article focuses on how the various Middle Eastern conflicts and related topics, theoretically framed as controversial issues, are dealt with in religious education and social studies classes. The aim is to analyse pedagogical approaches teachers applied in situations where topics associated with regional, cultural, and/or religious conflicts (e.g., migration, terrorism, radicalisation, xenophobia, anti-Semitism, and Islamophobia) were part of the teaching. What approaches were distinguishable in classroom practice? How did teachers reflect on this teaching? To examine these issues, ethnographic observations were made of religious education and civics classes at upper secondary schools in Sweden; follow-up interviews with teachers and students were also conducted to discuss the classroom situations. The approaches to teaching such difficult subject matter, as distinguishable in the classroom, were avoidance, denial of the controversy, provocation, representing/considering various perspectives, and eliciting empathy. There was a division between approaches that endeavoured to tone down the controversy versus those aimed at making the controversy more apparent. This difference can be understood as dealing with controversial issues as opposed to teaching controversial issues, which is a fundamental difference in pedagogic approaches. Keywords: controversial issues, teaching strategies, religious education, social studies, classroom observations   Att hantera och undervisa om kontroversiella frågor – Lärares didaktiska förhållningssätt till kontroversiella frågor i religionskunskap och samhällskunskap Sammandrag Vilka didaktiska förhållningssätt använder lärare i klassrummet för att hantera samhälleligt omtvistade och kontroversiella frågor? Den här artikeln fokuserar på hur Mellanösternskonflikterna och relaterade ämnen, teoretiskt inramade som kontro­versiella frågor, behandlas i religionskunskaps- och samhällskunskapsundervisning. Syftet i föreliggande artikel är att analysera lärares didaktiska handlande i undervis­ningssituationer där ämnen förknippade med regionala, kulturella och/eller religiösa konflikter (t.ex. migration, terrorism, radikalisering, främlingsfientlighet, antisemitism och islamofobi) var en del av undervisningen. Vilka didaktiska ansatser kunde urskiljas i klassrummet? Hur reflekterade lärarna över denna undervisning? För att undersöka dessa frågor genomfördes etnografiska klassrumsobservationer av religionskunskaps- och samhällskunskapsundervisning på gymnasiet i Sverige; intervjuer med lärare och elever genomfördes också för att diskutera de observerade klassrumssituationerna. Analysen visar att centrala ansatser var undvikande, förnekande av kontroversen, provokation, representation av olika perspektiv, och strategier som syftade till att skapa empati. Det fanns en skillnad mellan undervisning som sökte tona ner kontroversen jämfört med undervisning som syftade till att synliggöra olika perspektiv och positioner i den kontroversiella frågan. Denna skillnad kan förstås som att hantera kontroversiella frågor jämfört med att undervisa om kontroversiella frågor. Nyckelord: kontroversiella frågor, undervisningsstrategier, religionskunskap, samhällskunskap, klassrumsobservationer

scholarly journals The Roles of Islamic Education in Building Students’ Character within Indonesia Public Schools

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 21-39
Author(s):  
Darlan Darlan ◽  
Sagaf S. Pettalongi ◽  
Rustina Rustina
Keyword(s):  
Public Schools ◽  
Religious Education ◽  
Extracurricular Activities ◽  
School Curriculum ◽  
Islamic Education ◽  
Teachers And Students ◽  
Character Building ◽  
Depth Interviews

This study examined the role of Islamic education in building students’ character within Indonesia public schools.  In conducting the study, we used a qualitative case study method. The case of this study was a state senior high school in Palu city. Data were gathered through direct field observation, in-depth interviews which involve teachers and students. We also analyzed written material, such as the school curriculum, to understand how the character building strategies were integrated in the curriculum.  Iur study found that teachers implement character building strategies through several stages, namely the stages of planning, the stages of learning implementation, and the stages of evaluating Islamic religious education learning. The characters values were embedded in the learning of Islamic religious education.  This included the integration of character values in the school curriculum and they were taught in every day classroom leanings and in extracurricular activities.

scholarly journals THE ROLE OF CLASSROOM INTERACTION IN STUDENTS’ SPEAKING SKILL (A Case Study Research In Senior High School)

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-13
Author(s):  
Gita Larasaty ◽  
Yutinih Yutinih
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Student Teacher ◽  
Group Discussion ◽  
Classroom Interaction ◽  
Case Study Research ◽  
Teacher Interaction ◽  
Qualitative Research Design ◽  
Speaking Skill

This study is aimed at finding out how the role of classroom interaction in students’ speaking skill by showing the role of student-student interaction and student-teacher interaction inside classroom. While, the students often found some problems in learning speaking; one of the problem that they faced was lack of interaction in classroom. According to Warda (2015:2) “lack of interaction in EFL classes, could be the first lead to student’s oral poor productions.” Allwright (1984:156) defined interaction as the fundamental fact of classroom pedagogy- the fact that everything that happens in the classroom happens through a process of live-person-to-person interaction. Classroom interaction then is the one of facilitator to start conversation, as Nunan (1991:50) argued in two-way tasks (conversational interaction), all participants have a piece of informational known only to them which must be contributed to the small group discussion for the task to be completed successfully. The writer used qualitative research design and took one of the kinds of qualitative research method, which is a case study. The data obtained from the triangulation instruments. The first instrument was observation, this instrument helped the writer to find out the real situation in classroom especially the students’ interaction in speaking class, the second instrument was questionnaire, this instrument was to classify and determine how frequently interaction in classroom, the third instrument was the data transcript from interview. The results show that 92% of the students are aware about the important of classroom interaction in their speaking skill and 56% of them need their teacher to be guider as well as motivator with the number 24% to encourage them to interact and speak in the classroom. And students really need the teacher to provide more opportunities to interact with her, which according to their responses 68% of them prefer student-teacher interaction the most. In fact, students seem to know one of good students’ qualities is speaking and interacting in classroom, since refraining classroom interaction and showing no interest will naturally affect their speaking ability.

scholarly journals Peran Guru Pendidikan Agama Islam dalam Implementasi Program Gerakan Anti Narkoba Sebagai Upaya Pencegahan Penggunaan Zat Adiktif pada Siswa di SMA NU Juntinyuat

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 76-100
Author(s):  
Muhammad Saefudin
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Religious Education ◽  
Study Data ◽  
Research Information ◽  
Self Confidence ◽  
Nahdlatul Ulama ◽  
The One ◽  
The Relationship

During adolescence or many students experience a period of ambivalence (ambivalence). On the one hand, they still want to be comfortable living under the protection and love of their parents, but on the other hand they want to develop independently or independently. It is in these situations and conditions that often rebel teenagers and want to impose their will. This is the situation that happened in the Nahdlatul Ulama Juntinyuat High School (SMA NU Juntinyuat) in Indramayu district, finding students who consumed addictive substances. So that it causes behavior that is not appropriate for students in general. Based on the above background, the authors conducted research with the aim of revealing how the role of Islamic religious education teachers in the implementation of the anti-drug movement program as an effort to prevent the use of addictive substances in students at SMA NU Juntinyuat Indramayu with research objectives: (1) To determine the implementation of the movement program anti drugs at SMA NU Juntinyuat Indramayu. (2) To determine the role of Islamic religious education teachers in efforts to prevent the use of addictive substances in students at SMA NU Juntinyuat. (3) This is to determine the relationship between the anti-drug movement program and efforts to prevent the use of addictive substances by students at SMA NU Juntinyuat. The author in this research uses qualitative research methods. The type of qualitative research that the author uses is a case study. Data collection is carried out by observation, documentation, interview techniques. Data analysis techniques include data reduction, data presentation, and drawing conclusions. Research information. The conclusion of this study is that the results of the anti-drug movement program implemented in SMA NU Juntinyuat Indramayu succeeded in regaining students' self-confidence. This is known from the decrease in students who are addictive substances. Abstak Pada masa remaja atau siswa banyak mengalami masa ambivalensi (sikap mendua). Di satu sisi meraka masih ingin mendapat kenyamanan hidup di bawah perlindungan dan kasih sayang orang tua, tetapi di sisi lain mereka ingin pula berkembang secara independen atau mandiri.[1] Dalam situasi dan kondisi yang membimbangkan inilah remaja sering memberontak dan ingin memaksakan kehendaknya. Inilah situasi yang terjadi di Sekolah Menengah Atas Nahdlatul Ulama Juntinyuat (SMA NU Juntinyuat)kabupaten Indramayu, menemukan siswa yang mengkonsumsi zat adiktif. Sehingga menimbulkan perilaku yang tidak sewajarnya selayaknya pelajar pada umumnya. Berdasarkan latar belakang di atas, penulis melakukan penelitian dengan tujuan untuk mengungkapkan bagaimana peran guru pendidikan agama Islam dalam implementasi program gerakan anti narkoba sebagai upaya pencegahan penggunaan zat adiktif pada siswa di SMA NU Juntinyuat Indramayu dengan tujuan penelitian: (1) Untuk mengetahui implementasi program gerakan anti narkoba di SMA NU Juntinyuat Indramayu. (2) Untuk mengetahui peran guru pendidikan agama Islamdalam upaya  mencegah penggunaan zat adiktif pada siswa di SMA NU Juntinyuat. (3) Untuk mengetahui keterkaitan program gerakan anti narkoba dengan upaya mencegah penggunaan zat adiktif oleh siswa di SMA NU Juntinyuat. Penulis dalam riset ini menggunakan metode penelitian Kualitatif. Jenis penelitian Kualitatif yang penulis gunakan adalah Studi Kasus.Pengumpulan data dilakukan dengan teknik observasi, dpkumentasi, wawancara.Teknik analisis data meliputi meliputi reduksi data, penyajian data, dan penarikan kesimpulan.Informan penelitian. Kesimpulan dari penelitian ini adalah bahwa Hasil Program gerakan anti narkoba yang diterapkan di SMA NU Juntinyuat Indramayu ini berhasil menumbuhkan kembali rasa percaya diri siswa. Hal ini diketahui dari berkurangnya siswa yang ketergantungan zat adiktif..  

scholarly journals The Role of Social and Cultural Values in Public Education in Remote Island: a Case Study in Karimunjawa Islands, Indonesia

2015 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-16
Author(s):  
Yety Rochwulaningsih
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Values ◽  
Religious Education ◽  
Islamic Education ◽  
Mutual Cooperation ◽  
Teacher Attendance ◽  
Strategic Issues ◽  
Remote Island ◽  
Remote Islands

This paper aims to analyze education problems in remote islands especially in Parang island of Karimunjawa Islands, Indonesia. Specifically, this paper aims to identify socio-cultural values and its role in education both formal and nonformal. The research was conducted in the Parang Island one of thousand remote islands in Indonesia. The result shows that education in Parang island encounter strategic issues including the teacher attendance who mostly comes from outside of the island. Their mobility of certain matters force the teachers to go out from the island but sometime because of geographical condition their return to the island is unable to be ensured. This natural constraints precisely construct typical socio-cultural values especially in local education. The values which include multiculturalism, mutual cooperation, and togetherness has integrated into some subjects such as, Citizenship Education, Indonesian Language, Islamic Education, and some local contents such as Marine Education. It has been internalized into empirical experiences of the students as part of marine community that is typically open and egalitarian in character. Meanwhile, Islamic tend to be patterned in syncretism which promote balance and harmony of life. These values have been practices transmitted in religious education such as madrasah and some of informal Islamic institutions. The multiculturalism live, in harmony is effectively socialized through education, family life and community.Artikel ini mengkaji permasalahan bagaimana kondisi pendidikan di Pulau Parang sebagai pulau terpencil berlangsung dan bagaimana peranan nilai-nilai sosial budaya di dalamnya. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa pendidikan di Pulau Parang menghadapi berbagai persoalan strategis antara lain eksistensi guru tetap yang hampir semuanya berasal dari luar pulau dengan mobilitas yang tinggi harus sering ke luar pulau dan karena gelombang laut yang besar sering tidak dapat dipastikan waktu kembalinya ke Pulau Parang. Kendala alamiah ini justru mengkonstruksi nilai-nilai sosial budaya khas Pulau Parang yang berperan penting dalam beragam pendidikan. Nilai multikulturalisme, sambatan, tolong menolong, dan kebersamaan diinternalisasikan secara intensif melalui mata pelajaran IPS, PKN, BI dan PAI yang dintegrasikan dalam pengalaman empirik murid yang multietnik sebagai etnik maritime dengan karakter terbuka dan egaliter. Nilai-nilai religiusitas keIslaman yang cenderung bercorak sinkritisme mengedepankan keseimbangan dan keselarasan hidup ditransmisikan dalam pendidikan Madrasah Diniyah Mathaliul dan beberapa pondok perseorangan. Nilai-nilai multikulturalisme disosialisasikan secara efektif melalui pendidikan, keluarga dan masyarakat.

scholarly journals INTEGRATION OF INFORMATION AND COMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY INTO ISLAMIC RELIGIOUS EDUCATION TEACHER TRAINING

2019 ◽  
Vol 38 (1) ◽  
pp. 130-140 ◽  
Author(s):  
Miskiah Miskiah ◽  
Yoyon Suryono ◽  
Ajat Sudrajat
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Training ◽  
Religious Education ◽  
Case Study Research ◽  
Teacher Competence ◽  
Ict Integration ◽  
Islamic School ◽  
Technical Problems ◽  
Education Teacher

Integrating ICT in teacher training has become an absolute necessity over recent years. This research highlights the role of training as a means to improve Islamic religious education teacher competence in ICT. Specifically, the case-study research aim is to describe the level of ICT integration into the Islamic religious education training, referring to ‘education-and-training’, at a religious training center (RTC) in Palembang, Indonesia. Thirty teachers of Indonesian Islamic school (madrasah) and two facilitators at the RTC acted as informants in the research. Using the interactive model of qualitative analysis by Miles and Huberman, the research results indicated that the participants have already integrated ICT but were restricted to using presentations, especially the PowerPoint computer program. Secondly, age and technical problems became the major constraints to realize such integration. With respect to the availability of facilities, the RTC is in good category.

scholarly journals Transmission of Islamic Values in Public School: A Study at State Senior High School 5 Yogyakarta

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (01) ◽  
pp. 15-29
Author(s):  
Suyatno Suyatno ◽  
Fitri Nur Hayati ◽  
Wantini Wantini
Keyword(s):  
Public Schools ◽  
Public School ◽  
Religious Education ◽  
Extracurricular Activities ◽  
Role Models ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Study Approach ◽  
Islamic Values

The process of transmitting Islamic values to the younger generation remains an appealing study as Indonesia is a country with the largest Muslim population in the world. Unfortunately, previous studies on this topic focused more on the process of transmitting these values through formal and informal religious based educational institutions. This research took a unique position to study the Islamic values transmission within non-religious based public school. This qualitative research employed the case study approach to examine the process of instilling Islamic values in public schools. Data were collected through in-depth interviews, observation, and study of relevant documentation. The collected data were analyzed using the inductive interactive techniques of the Miles and Huberman models. This study showed that 1) the values of iman-taqwa (faith-piety) and akhlaq mulia (good morals) were an important embodiment of affection-based educational programs in schools. 2) These values were instilled by the school through a habituation process, supported by the function of the principal and teachers as role models and the important role of Rohis (Islamic organization). The inculcation of Islamic values was not only carried out by religious education teachers, but also transmitted by secular subject teachers as well as extracurricular activities. The findings of this study confirmed that public schools in Indonesia were now transformed as important instruments for the transmission of Islamic values to young Muslims. This research suggests important recommendations on the need to develop the capacity of teachers in schools to make them agents of moderation of Islamic values.  

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