Prophetic Pedagogy: A Paradigm for K-12 Islamic Education in the West | Shaykh Amin Kholwadia
Channel: Muslim Community Center - MCC East Bay
Date: 06/03/2019

Educators have the daunting task of imparting faith based knowledge and wisdom while using a secular curriculum whose foundation is rationalism and scientific reason. How does the epistemology of modern education square with Revelation? Can we resolve the tension between faith and reason in modern education? The challenges educators face are cross- curricular with neo-liberalism in the social sciences, atheistic challenges of evolution in the hard sciences, economic challenges with intellectual rationalism all leading to cognitive dissonance where Faith requires us to believe in one thing and modern education, the opposite. 

A discerning mind who has dwelled in traditional Islamic education and Western thought for more than three decades has taken on this daunting task of reconciling faith and reason for Muslim educators in a secular context. 

Shaykh Amin Kholwadia, founder of Darul Qasim in Chicago, presents a four-hour Professional Development session called "Implementing a Conducive Paradigm for K-12 Islamic Education in the West" for Bay Area Islamic School educators trusted with raising our next generation of American Muslims. 

Prophetic Pedagogy explores the teaching styles of the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) as found in the Qur'an and Sunnah, and complements them with contemporary research on teaching and learning for an Islamic school context.  

Prophetic Pedagogy seeks to provide Islamic school educators with tools, practices, and concepts to help shape education within Islamic schools today.  

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Topics covered:

- THE EPISTEMOLOGY (3 SOURCES) OF KNOWLEDGE 
- MORAL PARAMETERS OF EDUCATION 
- PARADIGMS AND THEORIES OF EDUCATION 
- CONCRETE EXAMPLES OF HOW TO INTEGRATE AN ISLAMIC MONO-PHILOSOPHY INTO A CURRICULUM 

This talk was delivered at the Muslim Community Center - East Bay (MCC East Bay) in Pleasanton, California on Saturday March 10, 2018.

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