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- Vol. 6 | (1)
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2_Teach less learn more.pdf
- TITLE
- The ‘Teach Less, Learn More’ initiative in Singapore: New pedagogies for Islamic religious schools?
- KEYWORDS
- Islamic religious schools, madrasah, pedagogies, Singapore, teach less, learn more
This paper explores how the Singapore government attempts to introduce ‘new’ pedagogies in madrasah education through new Islamic textbooks, a move that resonates with the national education initiative to ‘teach less, learn more’. The paper argues that these student-centered pedagogies are not new as they have been propagated by Muslim scholars and practiced in Islamic institutions since the medieval times. But these pedagogies may be ‘new’ or unfamiliar to many madrasahs due to the prevalent teacher-centered pedagogies privileged in madrasahs today.