Iranian Journal of Curriculum Studies

Iranian Journal of Curriculum Studies

The Necessity of Islamic Curriculum Knowledge: A Potential Paradigm Among Existing Paradigms

Document Type : Original Article

Authors
Maghsoud Amin Khandaghi 1
fateme sadat jafarnia 2
1 Department of Education. Faculty of Education and Psychology, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad
2 Ferdowsi University of Mashhad/ Faculty of Educational Sciences/ Curriculum Department
10.22034/jcs.2024.401990.2092
Abstract
The necessity of Islamic curriculum is a fundamental and neglected subject that was specifically addressed in this article. In this research, with an analytical and theoritical method, a holistic and comprehensive view of the necessity of Islamic curriculum was proposed, which, while explaining the existing ideas, opens new windows for the activists of this field and also the course. It explained the necessity of Islamic curriculum from a negative to a positive point of view. The four essentials of descriptive, consequential, critical, and creation and production were the most important types of Islamic curriculum-curriculum knowledge that were inferred from the sources. But in the meantime, theoretical necessity is the aspect that was emphasized by the authors. This necessity indicated that until the theoretical and knowledge foundations of Islamic curriculum are not formulated well, there is logically no hope for its emergence. The necessity of Islamic curriculum knowledge, theoretical treatment of the ontological, value-cognitive, anthropological, epistemological and methodological foundations of this knowledge, for the purpose of epistemology and presenting it as a paradigm among the existing paradigms of curriculum knowledge.
Keywords
Necessity
curriculum knowledge
Islamization
religious science
paradigm

Subjects

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  • Receive Date 12 June 2023
  • Revise Date 22 March 2024
  • Accept Date 07 September 2023