Pendidikan berkaitan dengan upaya mengembangkan pandangan hidup, sikap hidup dan kettrampilan hidup. Makna pendidikan sangat dipengaruhi oleh kondisi sosial politik dan geografisnya. Dalam konteks kebangsaan, pendidikan berperan untuk menyiapkan peserta didik untuk menghadapi masa depan dan menjadikannya bermartabat di antara bangsa-bangsa lain. Pendidikan perlu membiasakan anak-anak memahami e…
The idea of pluralism has been being a controversial discourse among Indonesian Muslims since the last decade of twentieth century. The problem is wether Islam as religion has the same fundamental norms and values as other religions, which form a common plat form a common platform among them. Some Muslim thinkers approve the idea of the common platform, while some others refuse. Nurcholish Madj…
Multiculturalism is a concept that emphasises equality of cultures and the importance of developing an understanding and a respect for all cultural groups that exist in society.It emphasises the concept of freedom of cultural expression without fear of dicrimination and prejudice.Education is a key way of promoting and achieving lasting cultural understandings.
This paper will describe the problems and challanges of Islamic religious education, both abstractive philosophical problems and methodological problems of practice. Abstractive philosophical problems are fundamental issues, long term. They are abstract in the sense requiring general thinking formulation. Thus, they require contextualization commentary on each of the times and places. Mean-whil…