Assuring Quality Outcomes: Best Practices For Higher Education in Islamic Countries
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https://doi.org/10.31436/ijes.v3i1.45Abstract
The purpose of this paper is to discuss the appropriateness of using imported quality standards to assess the quality of education in an Islamic context and whether the resulting education contributes to the achievement of national goals. Using dialectical inquiry and fitness of purpose analysis, this paper compares the purposes and outcomes of education as defined by Western and Islamic standards and suggests quality benchmarking considerations that ensure the sustainability and integrity of education in Muslim countries. The central argument is that overall, the imported quality frameworks do not prevent the implementation of Islamically-based educational systems, but the quality rhetoric needs to be interpreted and applied in an Islamic manner. Suggested best practices include implementing mutual consultation, mastering core concepts, and ensuring that the professors understand the context of Islam. These Islamically-based best practices represent easily accessible and customizable benchmarking guides for universities in the Islamic world that concerned practitioners can adopt when constructing or modifying home grown and foreign institutions of higher education.
Abstrak:
Kertas kerja ini bertujuan membincangkan kesesuaian penggunaan piawaian kualiti yang diimport dari luar negara untuk menilai kualiti pendidikan dalam konteks Islam sama ada pendidikan yang terhasil menyumbang kepada pencapaian matlamat negara. Dengan menggunakan inkuiri dialektik dan analisis kesesuaian tujuan, kertas kerja ini membandingkan tujuan dan hasil pendidikan sebagaimana yang ditetapkan oleh piawaian Barat dan Islam dan mencadangkan pertimbangan aras kualiti bagi memastikan kemampanan dan integriti pendidikan di negara-negara Islam. Hujah utama adalah bahawa pada keseluruhannya kerangka berkualiti yang diimport tidak menghalang pelaksanaan sistem pendidikan yang berasaskan Islam, tetapi kualiti retorika perlu ditafsirkan dan digunakan secara Islamik. Amalan-amalan terbaik yang disyorkan termasuk melaksanakan permuafakatan, menguasai konsep-konsep teras, dan memastikan professor-profesor memahami konteks Islam. Amalan terbaik berasaskan Islam ini mewakili panduan penandaarasan yang mudah diakses dan disesuaikan untuk universiti-universiti di dunia Islam supaya pengamal yang prihatin boleh menggunakannya apabila membina atau mengubahsuai institusi tinggi pendidikan dalam mahupun luar negara.
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