Exploring the Role of Madrasah Service Learning in Enhancing Capability and Promoting Human Development in Banten

DOI

10.2991/amca-18.2018.160How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Capability, human development, madrasah service learning.

Abstract

Islamic education institutions (IEIs) and particularly Madrasahs are increasingly being linked to debates about development. This perspective is dominated by two schools of thought. On the one hand, madrasahs are positioned as drivers of individuals’ and societies’ moral development. On the other hand, apart from an education focus, there is an emerging discourse that calls upon madrasahs to advance broader human development. The study is premised on two arguments. First, the overemphasis on moral imperatives of madrasah undermines and neglects their social values related to human development. Second, in the scholarly works focusing on madrasahs and human development, more work focusing on specific and concrete strategies that can enable madrasah to promote such notions of development is needed. This study builds on and contributes to the madrasah and human development debate by arguing that madrasah service learning (MSL) has great potential and some challenges to enable madrasah to promote human development. The study is situated within the qualitative approach, in which qualitative methods are employed to explore the perspectives of teachers, students and community members on MSL. The study collected qualitative data using document analysis, in-depth interviews, survey and observations. With qualitative analysis, I argue that MSL can enhance capabilities and promote human development values.

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© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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