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- The ‘Teach Less, Learn More’ initiative in Singapore: New pedagogies for Islamic religious schools?
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- Islamic religious schools, madrasah, pedagogies, Singapore, teach less, learn more
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https://doi.org/10.22804/kjep.2009.6.1.002
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Abstract
Against a backdrop of the nexus between education and national development in a knowledgebased economy, many states have extended their educational reforms to religious schools which are usually private schools not under direct state control. 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 studentcentered pedagogies are not new as they have been propagated by Muslim scholars and practiced in Islamic institu- tions since the medieval times. But these pedagogies may be ‘new’ or unfamiliar to many madrasahs due to the prevalent teachercentered pedagogies privileged in madrasahs today.？