Overhauling the Contents of Islamic Law Courses in Nigerian Universities: An Overdue Phenomenon

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 11-27
Author(s):  
Olagunju-Ibrahim R Olawale ◽  
Olokooba S Muhammed ◽  
Solomon O Afolabi
Keyword(s):  
Research Method ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Islamic Law ◽  
Legal Education ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Law Students ◽  
Founding Fathers ◽  
Effective Learning ◽  
History Of ◽  
High Level

Set on historical context, this paper examines generally the problems hindering the effective learning of Islamic Law (Sharīʻah) in the citadels of learning in Nigeria. In doing this, the paper highlights the history of legal education especially, the high level of teaching and learning of Islamic Law in the pre-colonial Nigeria and the contemporary problems facing quality Islamic legal education due to colonial antipathy for Islamic Law as well as shortcomings in the content of Sharīʻah law curriculum of the Nigerian legal education system. Using doctrinal research method, the paper finds that scanty contents of the Sharīʻah law courses taught to combined law students in Nigerian universities go contrary to the aims and objectives of the founding fathers of the Islamic legal education in Nigeria. To achieve a turn round and improve the situation, the paper recommends the need for overhauling of the contents of all Islamic Law courses in the Nigerian Universities.

Teaching and Learning activities that promote effective learning of Research Methodology among Psychology students

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Minu Mathews
Keyword(s):  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Psychology Students ◽  
Learning Activities ◽  
Student Perspective ◽  
Effective Learning ◽  
Psychology Courses ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Analyse Data ◽  
High Level

BackgroundCreating a conducive environment for learning cultivates engaged and independent learners, allowing for high-level learning (Warren, 2004). When assessing the diverse Psychology courses that exist, the evaluation of Research Methods (RM) teaching and its associated pedagogies is high on the agenda of college based Higher Education (Burton & Schonfield, 2011). ObjectiveThis study aimed at exploring what range of teaching and learning activities (TLA’s) promote effective learning of RM among Psychology students. Additionally, it aimed to understand, from a student perspective, what ‘effective learning’ meant in the context of RM. MethodA mixed methods approach comprising of both surveys as well as focus groups was conducted with undergraduate Psychology students. Thematic analysis and basic frequencies were used to analyse data. Results Results demonstrated that both student and teacher-led activities were beneficial and worked complementarily for students in their understanding of the subject whilst serving different purposes. Practical labs and class exercises were the top activities highlighted (student-led) followed by lectures and flow chart concept checks (teacher-led). Furthermore, ‘effective learning’ encapsulated not just a long-term knowledge acquisition of concepts but the ability to apply one’s knowledge to the wider context. Conclusion and teaching implication Findings are in line with the Conception of Learning which has a nested hierarchy consisting of both surface learning elements and deep learning (Marton,Dall’Alba & Beaty, 1993). RM has been identified as a difficult subject to teach as well for students to learn (Gray et al., 2015) and as a result this study teases apart some of the most beneficial techniques from a student perspective to be considered when designing the structure and delivery of RM courses.

scholarly journals Analisis Perkembangan Kognitif Anak Usia Dasar dan Implikasinya dalam Kegiatan Belajar Mengajar

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 37 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dian Andesta Bujuri
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Development ◽  
Cognitive Ability ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Effective Learning ◽  
Strategy Model ◽  
Comprehensive Development ◽  
Operational Phase ◽  
Concrete Operational ◽  
Two Phases ◽  
High Level

<p>The human as human being should experience the development every time, including on the basic age of child (7-13 years old). One of important aspects of  human development is cognitive aspect. Cognitive development is an comprehensive development relating with thinking ability, such as the ability of thingking, reasoning, expressing idea, imagination and creativity. According to Piaget’s theory, the cognitive development of basic age child consists of two phases: the first is concrete operational phase (7-11 years old) that is a phase where the child has been able to function his/her mind to think logical, rational and objective, but it is just limited on the object concrete.  The second is formal operational phase (11-12 more years old) that is a phase where the child has used his/her mind to think a matter which will be or ought to be happening (hyphotheses) and a abstract matter. In spite of the same phase, cognitive development of child has difference in every age level that it is very significant to be known especially in education scope in teaching and learning process. Referred to new version of Talksonomi Bloom Theory, the child who is 7 years old has been at C1, C2 and C3 level but it is still limited, age 8 years is C2 and C3 level; age 9 years is C3 level which is high level; age 10 years is C3, C4 and C5 level which is limited, age 11 years is C4, C5 and C5 level; and 12 years more is C6 level which is better. The significance of comprehension about the cognitive ability level of child becomes reference to choose material lesson, to determine strategy, model and learning method. The purpose is to able to create effective learning and to be able to comprehend the material maximally which it is hopefully compatible with the belonging of child’s cognitive ability.</p><p> </p><p><strong>Keyword : </strong>Cognitive Development, Basic Age Child, Teaching and Learning<strong> </strong></p>

The Poor of Noakhali: Danish Development Assistance Policy and Rural Development in Bangladesh

2011 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 183-205 ◽  
Author(s):  
PETER YDING BRUNBECH
Keyword(s):  
Rural Development ◽  
Development Assistance ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Development Project ◽  
Integrated Rural Development ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Will ◽  
1960S And 1970S ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
High Level

AbstractThe Danish integrated rural development project in the Bangladeshi district of Noakhali (1978–92) was in many ways the largest aid project in the history of the Danish aid agency, DANIDA, and was intended to break new ground by reaching the poorest and weakest directly. Despite elaborate planning and a small army of Danish experts, however, the project failed to reach the targeted groups and would ultimately be viewed as a partial fiasco. By analysing the historical context of the project, this article will show how both the project and the problems it encountered were a by-product of the basic principles of the Danish aid policy developed in the 1960s and 1970s: the same factors that produced the high level of Danish aid spending and the will to embrace new agendas in development assistance such as the ‘basic-needs’ approach also created a number of problems with regard to the implementation of Danish policy on the ground.

scholarly journals What is the resource footprint of a computer science department? Place, people, and Pedagogy

Data & Policy ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
Author(s):  
I. S. Mian ◽  
D. Twisleton ◽  
D. A. Timm
Keyword(s):  
Computer Science ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Raw Materials ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Digital World ◽  
History Of ◽  
University College London ◽  
Negative Impacts ◽  
High Level ◽  
Undersea Cables

Abstract Internet and Communication Technology/electrical and electronic equipment (ICT/EEE) form the bedrock of today’s knowledge economy. This increasingly interconnected web of products, processes, services, and infrastructure is often invisible to the user, as are the resource costs behind them. This ecosystem of machine-to-machine and cyber-physical-system technologies has a myriad of (in)direct impacts on the lithosphere, biosphere, atmosphere, and hydrosphere. As key determinants of tomorrow’s digital world, academic institutions are critical sites for exploring ways to mitigate and/or eliminate negative impacts. This Report is a self-deliberation provoked by the question How do we create more resilient and healthier computer science departments: living laboratories for teaching and learning about resource-constrained computing, computation, and communication? Our response for University College London (UCL) Computer Science is to reflect on how, when, and where resources—energy, (raw) materials including water, space, and time—are consumed by the building (place), its occupants (people), and their activities (pedagogy). This perspective and attendant first-of-its-kind assessment outlines a roadmap and proposes high-level principles to aid our efforts, describing challenges and difficulties hindering quantification of the Department’s resource footprint. Qualitatively, we find a need to rematerialise the ICT/EEE ecosystem: to reveal the full costs of the seemingly intangible information society by interrogating the entire life history of paraphernalia from smartphones through servers to underground/undersea cables; another approach is demonstrating the corporeality of commonplace phrases and Nature-inspired terms such as artificial intelligence, social media, Big Data, smart cities/farming, the Internet, the Cloud, and the Web. We sketch routes to realising three interlinked aims: cap annual power consumption and greenhouse gas emissions, become a zero waste institution, and rejuvenate and (re)integrate the natural and built environments.

scholarly journals SYARIAT ISLAM PADA DINASTI DI ASIA Telaah Kritis Tipologi Mujtahid dan Geneologi Intelektual

2014 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hasnul Arifin Melayu
Keyword(s):  
Power System ◽  
Islamic Law ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Social Conditions ◽  
Islamic Tradition ◽  
History Of ◽  
Religion And State

Implementation of Islamic law in Aceh is inseparable from its historical context in the history of Islam. Struggle of ideas between religion and state, the influence of the power system and outside the Islamic tradition and social conditions into one format forming Islamic law itself. In addition, the existence of a mujtahid in the struggle also gives an important role. This article will explore specifically about the existence of a mujtahid and their intellectual genealogy in dynasty in Asia, especially the Ottoman and Mughal. This study aims to describe the trip codification of Islamic law in some Muslim region. By doing so, there is the exposure of the expected phases of the codification of Islamic law that can be used as input in the process of implementation of Islamic law in Aceh. Kata kunci: syariat Islam, tipologi, geneologi mujitahid

scholarly journals The Status of Shari’ah in the Nigerian Legal Education: An Appraisal of the Role of Madaris

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ibrahim Abikan Abdulqadir ◽  
Hussein Ahmad Folorunsho
Keyword(s):  
Social Services ◽  
Basic Education ◽  
Islamic Law ◽  
Legal Education ◽  
Law Students ◽  
Degree Programs ◽  
Admission Requirements ◽  
The Status ◽  
Level Of Training

The stiff competition between the English Common Law and the Shari'ah (Islamic Law) throughout the colonial administration in Nigeria to date, has created a gap between the need for expertise in Shari'ah in the nation’s social and judicio-legal environment and the level of training provided by the Nigerian legal education system. This article studies the gap and contends that the Shari'ah content of the curriculum of the institutions offering Common and Islamic Law in particular, is not sufficient to enable its graduates to suitably handle the legion of Islamic legal matters in all levels of courts and other social services in the country. The madaris (Islamic Basic Schools) that should provide basic education to the LL.B Shari'ah or LL.B Common and Islamic law students are disintegrated from the mainstream of the admission requirements for the undergraduate degree programs. It concludes that unless the string between the madÉris and the degree awarding institutions is connected, great disservice will continue to be done not only to the Islamic legal and judicial system but also to the cause of justice.

scholarly journals Penerapan Metode Istihsan Pada Bidang Muâmalah Mâliyyah (Hukum Ekonomi Syariah)

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 68
Author(s):  
Panji Adam
Keyword(s):  
Data Collection ◽  
Research Method ◽  
Islamic Law ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Literature Study ◽  
Collection Method ◽  
Economic Law ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Law

Istihsan is one of the ijtihad methods disputed by the scholars ushul fiqh, although in reality, all scholars use it practically. The establishment of the law by istihsan method is widely carried out by scholars among the Hanafiyyah and Malikiyyah so that in the history of ushul fiqh, the Hanafiyyah are known as the group that uses istihsan as one of the methods of istinbâth al-ahkâm (determination of the law). Imam Shafi'i is a cleric who rejects istihsan as a method of determining Islamic law. But in practice Imam Shafi'i also uses istihsan as a method of determining Islamic law. The science of ushul fikih has a significant role in contributing to the existence of Islamic law, especially in the field of Sharia economic law. Research method conducted based on normative juridical approach, The specification of research used is analytical descriptive, The type of data used in this research, namely secondary data, data collection method used is literature study and analysis of secondary data that is qualitative. The results showed that istihsan is one of the methods of istinbâth al-ahkâm, which can be used as an argument and a proof of syara' and serves in determining the validity of an agreement / transaction in the field of Sharia economic law.

scholarly journals De-Secularizing Legal Education in Indonesian Non-Islamic Law School: Examining The �Intorduction to Jurisprudence� Textbooks on The �Norm Classification� Chapter

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 135 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fajri Matahati Muhammadin ◽  
Hanindito Danusatya
Keyword(s):  
Legal System ◽  
Islamic Law ◽  
Legal Education ◽  
Law School ◽  
Law Students ◽  
Literature Study ◽  
Law Schools ◽  
The Law ◽  
Undergraduate Programs

The Indonesian legal system is not secular, but the legal education in non-Islamic universities are secular. This article will highlight the �Introduction to Jurisprudence� course (ITJ) at law undergraduate programs. More specifically, one chapter will be analyzed i.e. �Classification of Norms� because it is an early fundamental chapter in ITJ which shapes the jurisprudential reasoning of the law students. This article uses a literature study to observe the most used textbooks for the (ITJ) course in the top law schools in Indonesia. It will be found that the approached used by these textbooks are secular and incompatible with the Indonesian non-secular legal system. Islamization of knowledge is needed to �de-secularize� this �Classification of Norms� chapter.

scholarly journals Peran Dakwah Dalam Keluarga Dan Relevansinya Bagi Pembentukan Karakter Anak

Al-Qadha ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 50-66
Author(s):  
Jon Paisal
Keyword(s):  
Research Method ◽  
Islamic Law ◽  
Cultural Norms ◽  
Library Research ◽  
The Family ◽  
Scientific Papers ◽  
History Of ◽  
A Priority ◽  
Close Relatives ◽  
Main Person

The family is the main person in charge of preaching to shape the character of children to become children who have religious and cultural norms. In research using the library research method (literature) by taking sources from books, journals, and other scientific papers tThe family is the main person in charge of preaching to shape the character of children to become children who have religious and cultural norms. In research using the library research method (literature) by taking sources from books, journals, and other scientific papers that support this research. The research aims to find Islamic law and views on da'wah to the family. The results showed that: Da'wah shapes the character of the child in the family into a priority and obligation for Islam, according to the word of Allah SWT in the Al-Qur'an, Surat Lukaman verse, 13. Then Q.S. Lukman verse 17. And Q.S Lukman verse 18. Furthermore, in Q.S: At-Tahrim. Allah commands humans to protect themselves and their children from the fires of hell. In the history of Islam before Rasulullah SWA broadcast the messages of Islam to the wider community, he preached to his family and close relatives. From this story, a reference to da'wah can be drawn to the family to educate children to become believers, obedient to worship and become children with noble character.

scholarly journals Relationship of Maqasid al-Shari�ah with Usul al-Fiqh (overview of historical, methodological and applicative aspects)

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 231
Author(s):  
Nur Hasan
Keyword(s):  
Literature Review ◽  
Research Method ◽  
Islamic Law ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Library Research ◽  
Close Relationship ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Law ◽  
Relationship Of

Studies on maqasid al-shari�ah have been widely written and reviewed by researchers of Islamic law. Some have written about the maqasid al-shari�ah�s concept, the figures� thought, and its application to various Islamic law and social issues. As a new study, maqasid al-shari�ah is widely studied in the context of renewing Islamic law, however little discuss about history of maqasid al-shari�ah and relations with usul al-fiqh. Because historically, the birth of maqasid al-shari�ah can�t be separated from development of usul al-fiqh through the scholars usul al-fiqh. As well as in terms of methodology, maqasid al-shari�ah have a close relationship with method istinba? al-�hkam in usul al-fiqh,� as qiyas,� maslahah al-mursalah, al-�ari�ah �and istihsan. While in terms of application, maqasid al-shari�ah together with usul al-fiqh namely departing from the proposition of naqli (revelation) and �aqli (reason) which is global and analyzes various opinions in deciding Islamic law. It�s just that usul al-fiqh is dominated by linguistic aspects, meanwhile the maqasid al-shari�ah emphasizes the divine aspect behind the law.� That�s why to see relationships among maqasid al-shari�ah and usul al-fiqh, this research uses library research method or literature review by researching the main sources which discusses about relations maqasid al-shari�ah and usul al-fiqh in terms of historical, methodological and applicative.

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