120218P - REFORM OF EDUCATION IN EAST AFRICA: AN ISLAMIC PERSPECTIVE (Word Slides)

Professor Omar Hasan Kasule Sr. MBChB(MUK), MPH (Harvard), DrPH (Harvard) Professor of Epidemiology and Bioethics Faculty of Medicine King Fahad Medical City Eldoret Kenya February 18, 2012.

1.0 THE CHALLENGE OF VISION

·         The colonial era

·         The post colonial era

·         The frame of educational reform: within vs without

2.0 THE CHALLENGE OF HISTORY

·         The start of knowledge with terminology

·         Knowledge from revelation

·         Empirical knowledge of ancient civilizations

·         The European medieval era

·         The renaissance

·         The post renaissance period

·         How did history leave us behind?

3.0 THE 5 MANIFESTATIONS OF THE KNOWLEDGE AND EDUCATIONAL CRISIS

·         Deficiency in quantity & quality:

·         Duality:

·         Irrelevance:

·         Divorce from morality:

·         Brain drain:

4.0 CONSEQUENCES OF THE KNOWLEDGE CRISIS

·         Thought malaise

·         Action malaise:

·         Political dependency:

·         Economic dependency

·         Military weakness

·         Dependency in science and technology

5.0 MANIFESTATIONS OF THE THOUGHT MALAISE

·         Intellectual stagnation (no innovation, no creativity, and fanaticism),

·         Syncretism, talfiq (juxtaposition of ideas that are incompatible without attempting to analyse them critically to arrive at a synthesis or favor one of them, tarjiih,

·         Lack of vision as a guide vision for the present and the future

·         Superficiality, satahiyyat (concern with minor inconsequential issues.

·         Sterile arguments, jadal, lead to no purpose or goal of practical utility.

6.0 PROBLEMS UNSOLVED BECAUSE OF THE THOUGHT MALAISE

·         Gender: the nature, role, rights, and responsibilities of the woman

·         Plurality of opinion and practice

·         Leadership: qualifications, selection, roles, and scope of responsibility

·         Public mutual consultation, shura, in public decision making

·         Our visions of the economy, education, politics, and international relations.

·         Definition of and pride in our cultural identity with the result that our lifestyles are dictated by European norms.

7.0 REFORM OF THE EDUCATION SYSTEM: A STRATEGICAL FORMULATION

·         Vision:

·         Mission:

·         Goals:

·         Characteristics of a reformed education system: universal access to affordable education, teacher-student relation

8.0 REFORM OF THE EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM: the process of education

·         The learning obligation:

·         The teaching obligation:

·         Etiquettes of searching for knowledge, adab talab al ‘ilm:

·         Etiquettes of teaching, adab al mu’allim:

·         Restoring the prestige of the teaching profession:

·         Academic freedom:

8.0 REFORM OF THE EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM: Reforming the school

·         Goals of the school:

·         Socialization:

·         Emphasis of the curriculum:

·         Methodology of the curriculum:

·         Content of the curriculum:

·         Extra-curricular activities

9.0 REFORM OF THE EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM: Reforming higher education

·         Definition of higher education:

·         Objectives of higher education:

10.0 EPISTEMOLOGICAL REFORM

·         Definition

·         Vision and mission of epistemological reform

·         Goals of epistemological reform

·         The scope of epistemological reform

11.0 Practical steps / tasks of the reform process:

·         Mastery of our intellectual heritage

·         Critique of the disciplines

·         Review of teaching materials

·         Preparing introductions to disciplines, muqaddimat al ‘uluum

·         Research

·         Teaching material

·         Applied knowledge