Mainstreaming Religious Values in Islamic Studies Curriculum Development for Multicultural Society

DOI

10.2991/icosihess-19.2019.37How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Islamic studies, Curriculum development, Religious values, Multicultural society

Abstract

Curriculum development is a continues process in improving and adjusting the quality and goals of studying and teaching. One challenging process is, however, to prepare a transformed curriculum for different students. This study aims at illustrating curriculum development process of general religious study subject for university students. The curriculum has been adjusted to be delivered for specific Muslim students into multi-religious-background students. Therefore, this process involves mainstreaming of values of religions instead of description of formal rituals. This is a qualitative study that utilizes library research, participant observation, as well as interviews as main source of data collections. The observation has been focused in Tanri Abeng University. The university shares unique characteristics in terms of religious studies and therefore important and functional for kind of comparison. Data was collected during May to July 2018. This study discovers that mainstreaming of religious values has been accepted by students of religious studies with multicultural backgrounds in religion. This mainstreaming of religious values has made the connection between the students closer and stronger. This unique approach has enabled the students with different backgrounds of religion to find a common ground among them without harming their own belief.

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© 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Firdaus Wajdi
AU  - Zulkifli Lubis
AU  - Devi Kurniati
PY  - 2019/10
DA  - 2019/10
TI  - Mainstreaming Religious Values in Islamic Studies Curriculum Development for Multicultural Society
BT  - Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Sustainable Innovation 2019 – Humanity, Education and Social Sciences (IcoSIHESS 2019)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 225
EP  - 228
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/icosihess-19.2019.37
DO  - 10.2991/icosihess-19.2019.37
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