
doi: 10.3390/rel11080404
handle: 11541.2/143949
This paper provides insight into senior secondary learners’ views on Islamic Studies (IS) in three large Australian Islamic schools. This study offers a ‘dialogic alternative’ of ‘speaking with’ rather than ‘speaking for’ learners in Islamic educational research, planning, and renewal within K-12 Islamic schools. The study privileges learners’ voice and enables an insight to their experience with one of the most important features of Islamic schools—Islamic Studies. Using phenomenology as a methodological framework, learner voice was elicited through focus groups where 75 learners (years 10, 11, and 12) provided information describing their experience with Islamic Studies. Thematic content analysis of the textual data suggests that learners’ dissatisfaction far outweighs their satisfaction with Islamic Studies. The findings of this paper can benefit Islamic schools in Australia and other Western contexts.
renewal, learner, Islamic schools, student, Religions. Mythology. Rationalism, Australia, voice, Islamic Studies, BL1-2790
renewal, learner, Islamic schools, student, Religions. Mythology. Rationalism, Australia, voice, Islamic Studies, BL1-2790
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