Education as self-government: the Minhaj Education Society’s answer to managing violence in Pakistan

Abstract

Development-thinking and planning consistently identify religious markers of selfdevelopment as inimical to social cohesion in the Global South. Practitioners in the field see any educational philosophy that emphasises the disciplined formation of character, by nonsecular means, as an undesirable reaction to modernisation. Religious or madrassa education is identified as an intrinsically regressive aspect of the indigenous social order that limits the transition to an open access order society. Using qualitative data from interviews with the managers of an NGO and political reform movement in Pakistan, we explore this conclusion and ask whether the secular norms of citizenship, often insisted upon by the international donor community, are strong enough to challenge residual violence. If they are not strong enough, what resources are available within traditional precepts about self-government so that

Madrasa education development in Indonesia: The role of government support, human resource improvement and institutional polices

“…In this situation, it is only government support that assists in establishing and developing madrasa. These results agree with the previous study of Jabbar and Ali (2019), which states that when the government pays attention to the madrasa education and provides legal and financial support for the establishment and functioning of madrasas within the country, it becomes easy for the Muslim majority of the population to enroll their children madrasas to give them Islamic education along with professional or vocational education.…”

“…Policies regarding the lack and huge development of madrasas education in Indonesia are not an option because of the equal institutional policies. Jabbar and Ali (2019), investigated the planning and development of a human resource that integrates its efforts to develop the madrasa education. Madrasa and religious education are intrinsically important to maintain the social order with an effective human resource that has a dominant influence on institutional policies.…”