Action Research to Promote Islamic Learning for Elderly Muslims in Khao Tum Sub-District and Yarang Sub-District Yarang District Pattani Province

Kasetchai Laeheem,Thongphon Promsaka Na Sakolnakorn,Punya Tepsing,Hasbullah Azizskul

doi:10.32861/jssr.66.639.648

Abstract

The objectives of this action research were to explore the conditions of promotion, to develop guidelines for promotion, to examine the results of the operational promotion of Islamic learning, and to propose application of the results for policymaking. Data were collected through in-depth interviews, brainstorming and critique meeting with early-elderly Muslims, Muslim leaders and Muslim academics. The data were analyzed with content analysis after experiments were conducted with the target groups. T-test and one-way ANOVA using the R program were performed. The results were as follows. 1) The elderly Muslims in the two areas had problems in Islamic learning, needed Islamic learning, had methods for Islam studies, received Islamic learning promotion, and had the same factors of Islamic learning. 2) A suitable guideline for promoting Islamic learning was group study activities or “Halaqah Activities Program”. 3) After the operational experiment, all the four groups of elderly Muslims had higher performance results on all the three aspects. 4) Heads of families, community leaders and local organizations should encourage the use of Halaqah activities to promote Islamic learning among all age groups.

Highlights

The effective management of secondary schools in Nigeria is one of the means through which educational goals can be attained
The subjects are observed in their natural and unchanged natural environment. This design was considered most appropriate for this study because the study intends to investigate principal leadership variables such as leadership style, communication patterns, decision-making skills, and supervisory approaches and describe these phenomena of interest as they influence the dependent variable
The dependent variable was measured continuously at the interval scale of measurement. This made the researchers consider the one-way analysis of variance as the most appropriate statistical technique in comparing the means of undergraduates’ attitudes towards learning in schools where principals adopted these three leadership styles

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Introduction

The effective management of secondary schools in Nigeria is one of the means through which educational goals can be attained. Little or nothing seems to be known at the moment regarding the reasons why there is an indifference in the attitudes of students after completing a practicum course In response to this gap, we designed this study to assess principals' leadership variables as the presumed cause of undergraduates' declining attitudes towards practicum exercise in secondary schools. Results: We find amongst others, that principals’ leadership styles, communication patterns, decision-making and supervisory approaches significantly predict undergraduates' attitudes towards practicum exercise relatively. Each of these independent variables accounts differently for the variance in the dependent variable based on their unique coefficient of determination.

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