New Directions in Islamic Education: Pedagogy and Identity Formation

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Abdullah Sahin Paperback, 294 pages 9781847740588 Pedagogy and Identity Formation New Directions in Islamic Education explores the relationship between pedagogy and the formation o f religious identities within Islamic education settings that are based in minority and majority Muslim contexts. Based on empirical research, the book engages critically with the philosophical, theological and cultural dynamics that inform Muslim educational thought and practice. The book offers an integrated model of Islamic education that identifies the heart of the Islamic educational imagination as tarbiyah, a transformative process of becoming. Overall, this book seeks to ground the theory and practice of Islamic education within the experience of the educator and the learner, and it synthesises the spiritual foundations of Islam with the tradition of critical reflection to be found within the classical Muslim educational heritage. Show more