Transcript MUSLIM CHILDREN’S EDUCATION

MUSLIM CHILDREN’S
EDUCATION
BEYOND SEMINARS & WORKSHOPS
ANCHORED BY ISLAMIC FORUM AT ITS
MONTHLY LECTURE HELD ON MARCH 30, 2006
MUSLIM CHILDREN’S
EDUCATION?
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PRE-NURSERY EDUCATION
KINDERGATEN & NURSERY
PRIMARY
JUNIOR SECONDARY SCHOOL
SENIOR SECONDARY SCHOOL
ADVANCED LEVEL/ DIPLOMA/VOCATIONS
POLYTECHNICS & COLLEGES
UNIVERSITY EDUCATION
POSTGRADUATE & PROFESSIONAL COURSES
FELLOWSHIPS
LIBERAL EDUCATION
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To build an all –round democratic personality
Exaggerate reasons & rationality
Underestimate the value of the spirit
Encourages scientific enquiries at the expense of
faith
• Promotes individualism
• Breeds skepticism
• Never accepts that which is not demonstrable
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ISLAMIC EDUCATION
• Trains sensibilities
• Places Allah at the center of all knowledge,
actions and viewpoints
• Emphasizes ethics of Islam
• Trains to be rational & righteous being
• Give regards to spiritual, moral & physical welfare
of family, community & mankind
• Trains to be peace loving & harmonious
• Derives deep faith in Allah
• All opportunities derive from Allah’s authority
• Recognizes that all his actions are to be rewarded
by Allah and he is accountable for all misdeeds.
CONTENTS OF EDUCATION
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CONVENTIONAL
LIBERAL ARTS
SOCIAL SCIENCES
NATURAL SCIENCES
AGRICULTURE
ENGINEERING
INFO. TECHNOLOGY
LAW
MEDICINE
EDUCATION
LANGUAGES
RELIGIONS & PHYLOSOPHY
PHYSICAL EDUCATION
MATHEMATICS
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ISLAMIC
AL-QUR’AN
HADITH
TEJWEED
TAOHEED
SEERRAH
FIQUE
SHARIA
NASEEAR???
ARABIC LANGUAGE
(Naawu,sarif, balaga, etc)
• EDUCATION(TURQUTADREES)
AS WE STAND TODAY
• NON-MUSLIMS PRIVATE
SCHOOLS
• CONSTITUTES OVER 90%
• FEES B/W N15,000 &
$2MILLION/ ANNUM
• OVER 50% HAVE HIGHLY
QUALIFIED TEACHERS
• ADEQUATE FACILITIES
• PROJECT WESTERN &
XTIAN VALUES
• PATRONISED BY
MUSLIMS ELITE
• SUPERB AESTHETICS
• STRONG FINANCIALS
• MUSLIM PRIVATE
SCHOOLS
• CONSITUTES ABOUT 10%
• FEES B/W N5,000 &
N500,000 P.A.
• DEDICATED BUT
UNTRAINED TEACHERS
• LACK AMBIENCE
• PROJECT ISLAMIC
CULTURE & VALUES
• PATRONISED BY POOR &
SOME MIDDLE CLASS
• MOSTLY UNAPPOVED
• POOR FINANCIALS
A PUBLIC SECONDARY SCHOOL SCORECARD!!!
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PRESENTED OVER 500 FOR WAEC
ONLY 10 PASSED WITH SIX CREDIT!
OVER 100 RECORDED F9 FLAT!
OVER 90 STUDENTS IN A CLASS
NO PRE-ENTRY QUALIFYING EXAMINATIONS
AUTOMATIC PROMOTION EVERY YEAR
TEACHERS’ OVERSIGHT GROSSLY LIMITED
MOST STUDENTS HAD NO TEXTBOOKS
SUPERVISION IS SUPERFICIAL & COSMETIC
SCIENCE FACILITIES GROSSLY UNACCEPABLE
WELFARE FACILITIES VIRTUALLY COLLAPSED
HOW MANY OF THEM ARE MUSLIMS? SORRY,
RELIGION NOT COVERED BY CENSUS 2006!!
• GUESS HOW MANY ARE PROMOTED TO DANFO
GARRAGE & AREA BOYS’ PAVILLION???
STRUCTURES FOR
REDEMPTION
• NIGERIA ASSOCIATION OF MODEL
ISLAMIC SCHOOLS( NAMIS)(ABOUT 300
MEMBERS IN OYO STATE ALONE)
• LEAGUE OF MUSLIM SCHOOL
PROPRIETORS ( LEAMSP)( ABOUT 150
MEMBERS)
• COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION IN LAGOS
STATE
• FOMWAN EDUCATION COMMITTEE
• VARIOUS ISLAMIC ASSOCIATIONS
• INDIVIDUAL EFFORTS
OUR STRENGTHS
• ABUNDANT TRAINABLE & DEDICATED
TEACHING STAFF
• CHILDREN’S POPULATION- HIGH
• CAPACITY TO PAY BY MUSLIM ELITE –
VERY HIGH
• CAPACITY TO INVEST BY ELITE- HIGH
• RESOURCE MANAGERS?
OUR WEAK POINTS
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WANT OF RESOURCE MANAGERS
WEAK FINANCIAL KNOWLEDGE
LACK OF INTEREST IN DAWAH
SCARTERED & UNCOORDINATED ELITE
RELATIVELY POOR UMMAH
PEER PRESSURE FROM NON MUSLIMS
INTERRELIGIOUS MARRIAGE
WEAK VOICE IN GOVERNMENT
ABSENCE OF STRONG CENTRE
PRIVATE MUSLIM
UNIVERSITY EDUCATION
• LONG TERM SURVIVAL IS A CRITICAL CHALLENGE
DUE TO THE FOLLOWING FACTORS:
• RELATIVELY EXPENSIVE FOR MUSLIM PARENTSN250,000-5000,000)
• WEAK CAPACITY IN APPLIED SCIENCES
• UNCOMPETITIVE STAFF COMPENSATION
• WEAK ISLAMIC BACKGROUND OF LECTURERS
• LOW MUSLIM ENROLMENT
• ABSENCE OF INSTITUTIONAL SUPPORT (HOME&
ABROAD)
• SUSPICION BY MUSLIMS & NON MUSLIMS
Comments & questions
• Weak can gain strength overtime. Keep trying.
• Keep parents informed of the necessity and
preference for Islamic oriented education
• Use of mosques to be employed for schools.
• Put right peg in the right hole. Proper roles.
• Dimension of UBE should be appreciated and
planned for in our curriculum.
• Integration of Quranic education.
• Islamic schools to offer quality education
• Location to be given priority consideration
• Muslims in our Tertiary education not doing
enough
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• Let us take interest in what goes on around us, in our
mosques and community.
• Pay attention to public schools. Participate actively in
PTA.
• Madrasa education to be given to our children
• Synthesize our resolutions at this forum and take
practical steps to solve the problems.
• Aptitude varies from child to child but opportunity
must be provided to individual child to realise his
potential
• Invest in education of the children.
• Running school is a business and must be regarded as
such.Create value and receive value for value.
Comments & questions contd.
• Capable people to create endowment and offer
scholarships to deserving students.
• For all schools, ensure the end justifies the means.
• School is a communal responsibility rather than
individual calling.
• Public schools have more qualified teachers than
private schools.
• We can intervene more positively in public
schools rather than knocking our head against the
wall to make private Muslim schools succeed.
• Muslims must be committed to the course of
Islam physically and financially. Be more
generous.
• Role Model impact on students to be emphasized.