Moral or character education has been playing an important role in educating children, teenagers, and younger people noble values of Japanese cultures. This research is based on two research questions: how the practice of moral education in Japanese schools is and how the model for improving character education in Indonesian schools is. This is a qualitative field research with phenomenological approach, in which the data were collected in Japanese schools by using observation, indepth interview, and documentary. The data were analysed descriptively and continuously. The Japanese government gave one hour  lesson for moral education in a week.  With the moral education, Japanese younger generation is expected to be able to adapt to the social environment and have the ability to think, to make effective decisions and to act independently. In addition, they are also expected to have  ability to identify issues they face, and be able to interact with others in international relations and play an important role in international world as well. Japanese moral education has been using the interactive and communicative approach, promoting moral discovery by learners themselves, avoiding the application of indoctrination approach, and no test or  final exam,  for every course of study in moral education (zero test).  In addition the most important thing is that moral education in Japan  applied an  integrated and connected approach among  three centers of education: school,  family, and  community.  All of three educational environments have very important role  as laboratory of  moral or character education.

The COVID-19 pandemic has caused problems in learning tahfidz Al-Qur'an in Indonesia. One of the issues is how to keep the accuracy of reading the Qur'an related to lip movements and makharij letters which should be held through talaqqi (face-to-face) method but now it is conducted in virtual learning. This paper aims to analyze the innovation of tahfidz Al-Qur'an learning in Indonesia during the COVID-19 pandemic. This research uses qualitative data taken from observations and in-depth interviews. The research involves students, educators, and school principals. The data are analyzed using the triangulation technique based on a phenomenological mindset. The results show that (1) the learning of Al-Qur'an tahfidz during the pandemic is conducted online using supporting media technology that can accommodate, integrate, and unify the management of Al-Qur'an tahfidz learning; (2) Al-Qur'an tahfidz learning innovation can solve the existing problems by paying attention more to lip and tongue movements and sounds that the students produce, and; (3) Al-Qur'an tahfidz learning innovation has positive implications for the student's knowledge and skill competencies with satisfactory results. Their good outcomes may also be much better with the improvement of their attitudes in learning. This research suggests further research by developing a virtual tahfidz learning method to provide other alternatives to the tahfidz learning method during the COVID-19 pandemic.

This study aims to describe the content knowledge, pedagogical knowledge, and pedagogical content knowledge of students of pre-service physics teachers at Walisongo Semarang. The type of research is quantitative descriptive. The samples were Physics Pre-service teachers at Universitas Islam Negeri Walisongo Semarang. The samples were 65 pre-service physics teachers determined by the purposive sampling technique. The method of collecting data used was a test, observation, and documentation. The results showed that pre-service physics teachers' content knowledge capabilities were in three categories, namely: 35% poor, 42% sufficient, and 23% good. The pedagogical knowledge test showed that 16% of physics pre-service teachers were in a good category, 77% were in a good category, and 7% were in a very good category. The results of the pedagogical content knowledge test showed that 12% of the pre-service physics teachers were in the poor, 30% were in the moderate category, 35% were in a good category, and 23% were in the very good category. Pre-service physics teachers had the lowest ability in determining other factors that influence teaching concepts, and the highest ability in determining important science concepts in the material to be taught. This research implies that remediation is needed to improve physics pre-service teachers' Pedagogical Content knowledge capabilities, which can be applied in the Plan of Learning course

The marketing paradigm has undergone a change from the rational level to the emotional level, and finally, the shift in the spiritual level. Such discourse results in different marketing strategies, especially the marketing applied by both profit and non-profit organizations. Educational institutions, including non-profit organizations, must have a marketing strategy following the spiritual level shift. One spiritual aspect in the marketing of Islamic education is the level of maslahah (utility) applied to all marketing activities. The purpose of this study is to examine educational marketing from a maslahah perspective. This writing is library research with a qualitative descriptive approach—data sources in the form of references related to the study topic. Data analysis was carried out qualitatively, including data reduction, data presentation, and concluding. The results showed that the maslahah of Islamic education customers was the main objective of all Islamic education marketing activities.

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