Enactment of Islamic Pedagogy: From Remonstration to Praxis

Abstract

In the modern era of science and technology effective instruction heavily depends upon the pedagogical skills employed by teachers during the teaching-learning process. The contemporary notion of effective instruction refers to the quality of learning but on the other hand the pedagogy derived from Islamic thoughts and practices of successful instruction deals with purposeful learning. Therefore, the Islamic pedagogical paradigm consists of the art and methods of teaching that deal with the individualized fulfillment of educational needs and developing a virtuous personality. The present theoretical study is an effort to trace the roots of modern pedagogies in the Islamic pedagogical practices. It is revealed that although the Islamic pedagogical doctrine is dominated by the teacher-centered instruction, memorization, morality and the use of the written word but the modern pedagogical approaches i.e. student centered instruction, activity based instruction, problem solving and project based instruction, are also, in one way or the other, indebted to the Islamic pedagogical thoughts and practices.