Abstract
Terengganu is known as one of the center of religious traditional educations since many decades. The emergence of several traditional religious schools known as pondok has had a great impact on Muslim community in the area. The school used traditional mode of teaching methods and commonly handled in a study circle or halaqah guided by kitab kuning or old book as text books. Up to the present day, though some pondok schools are gradually replaced by modern schools receiving financial supports from the government, the traditional mode of teaching in the pondok are still popular including in some mosques of the state. This paper discusses the forms of teaching methods of religious education in the mosques and the pondok, besides looking at some roles of religious education to the Malay community. Data for the study were collected through unstructured interviews with key informants, coupled with participant observations conducted in selected mosques and pondok, besides published materials from secondary sources. All the data were analyzed using thematic approach. The study shows that there are various forms of classes and teaching methods conducted in the mosques and pondok schools whilst students attending the religious classes divided into two categories, the young and the older person. With the continuing efforts by the government particularly in providing the infrastructures and financial supports, it is hoped that religious education may again showing its attraction to the surrounding Malay community. DOI: 10.5901/mjss.2015.v6n3s2p189
Highlights
This paper presents the result of a cross-sectional study using a descriptive research design on non-formal religious education program in Malay Muslim community in Terengganu, Malaysia
Descriptive research design is used when a researcher seeks a better understanding and measure how variables are naturally distributed (Yegidis and Weinbach, 2002). We applied this design as to see how the emergence of traditional religious schools known as pondok has had a great impact on Muslim community in the area, and we aim to describe it accurately
Various Islamic traditional educations emerged and were conducted in mosques and pondok schools to fill the spiritual needs of the local community
Summary
This paper presents the result of a cross-sectional study using a descriptive research design on non-formal religious education program in Malay Muslim community in Terengganu, Malaysia. Ololube and Egbezor (2012) define non-formal education as a structured education that takes place outside of an organized school setting. It can mean any organized and sustained educational activity that does not correspond to the definition of formal education (Ololube and Egbezor, 2012). Non-formal religious education in Malaysia is important to be analyzed as Muslim populations are the majority in Malaysia and constitute more than 60% of the whole population. This is in line with the Federal Constitution which states that Islam is the official religion of this country. Article 153 (1) of the 1957 Constitution states that Bahasa Melayu become ‘the national language’ and Islam the official religion {Article 3 (1)}. (Abdul Rahman, 2011)
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