Indonesian Islamic Higher Education Research Articles

Students’ Response to Cross-culture Based Instruction in Teaching Listening Comprehension at Indonesian Islamic Higher Education

The present study explores the students’ response to the cross-culture based construction in teaching listening comprehension at Indonesian Islamic higher education. This research used qualitative approach with case study design. In collecting the data, the researcher used questionnaire and gave to the 34 students as the respondents by purposive sampling. They were from English language program at fourth semester. The result showed that most of the students stated that they were motivated and interested in cross culture - based instruction in learning listening comprehension. Learning listening by using cross culture based instruction make them enjoyable and they can remember the new word. It can be concluded that cross culture -based instruction is useful since the lecturer choose the appropriate material and strategise in teaching listening comprehension.

Insights into Multicultural Competence of Early Childhood Teacher Candidates in Indonesian Islamic Higher Education

This study investigates multicultural attitudes among 168 ECE teacher candidates from four state Islamic universities in Indonesia, using a quantitative descriptive design and the Multicultural Attitudes Survey for Teachers. Results indicate a high average multicultural attitude score of 74.12, with candidates demonstrating confidence in managing multicultural classrooms and promoting cultural pride among children. However, their attitudes are primarily based on personal interactions rather than formal coursework. Interviews with 27 respondents further explore multicultural education practices during teaching practicum, revealing a need for improved collaboration with parents and greater emphasis on multicultural education in both teacher education and ECE curricula. Practical implications include integrating multicultural education into teacher education programs, fostering experiential learning for attitude development, and expanding multicultural education coverage in ECE curricula to enhance children's multicultural awareness.

EVALUATING INDONESIAN LANGUAGE LEARNING IN INDONESIAN ISLAMIC HIGHER EDUCATION USING CIPP MODEL

EVALUATING INDONESIAN LANGUAGE LEARNING IN INDONESIAN ISLAMIC HIGHER EDUCATION USING CIPP MODEL

Quillbot Web-Application: Utilizing Online Technology on Academic Writing at an Indonesian Islamic Higher Education

The objectives of this research were to find out the impact and obstacles that QuillBot's utilization as an online technology faced on students’ academic writing. This research used a phenomenological qualitative design. The subjects were eight students who participated in this research. This research used an interview guide to collect the data. The result showed that the impact of QuillBot as an online technology on students’ academic writing has a positive and negative impact, where the positive is that QuillBot can help students save their time to write the academic writing process, increase their vocabulary, and help in the writing process with the complexity, objectivity, formality, and hedging aspects of academic writing itself. The negative impact indicates the students’ dependence on QuillBot tools, where they become lazy to think and do not use their ability to write their academic writing. Finally, there were the obstacles that students encountered while using QuillBot, such as a bad network and a lack of clear instructions on how to upgrade to the premium version.

Nomophobia Dynamics among Students: A Study in Indonesian Islamic Higher Education

This research examines the frequent use of smartphones among college students. These conditions can lead to nomophobia behavior disorder (no mobile phone phobia). This study aims to: 1) analyze the level of nomophobia in students based on gender, faculty academic culture, and age; 2) analyze differences in nomophobia simultaneously based on gender, faculty academic culture, and age. This study uses a quantitative descriptive comparative approach. Data were obtained from 988 students at Islamic tertiary institutions. Samples were selected by convenience sampling technique. The instrument used is the nomophobia questionnaire (NMP-Q) (Yildirim, 2014), with high reliability. Data were analyzed using an Independent Sample T-test, analysis with one-way ANOVA, and two-way ANOVA analysis. The results of the study show that nomophobia among students is in the high category. This study proves that there are differences in the level of nomophobia in terms of gender where women are higher than men. Based on the faculty's academic culture and age, there is no difference in student nomophobia. There is an interaction between gender and age in influencing nomophobia. Simultaneously there was no interaction between gender, faculty academic culture, and age in determining the level of nomophobia.

Constructing the Concept of Student Well-Being within Indonesian Islamic Higher Education

This qualitative study investigates teachers’ and students’ conceptualization of well-being at an Islamic higher education institution in Indonesia. Drawing on a constructivist research design, data for this study were collected via interviews with three experienced teachers and a focused group discussion with eight students. The collected data were analyzed using a thematic analysis framework assisted by the NVIVO Pro 11 application. The results of this study reveal that, for the teacher participants, well-being should be conceptualized with reference to spiritual and transcendental dimensions (chaironic). For the student participants, meanwhile, genuine positivity with mutual respect and understanding (eudemonic) should be more emphasized. Nevertheless, both teachers and students believe that subjective well-being (hedonic) is particularly important in the fulfillment of physical and material needs on campus. This study also uncovers that, besides a context-driven conceptualization of well-being, a set of preconditions is required in order to make well-being part of campus culture, university policies, and teaching and learning practices at Islamic higher education institutions.

Exploring the Impacts of the Covid-19 Pandemic on English Language Teachers

This study aims to assess how Indonesian Islamic higher education, specifically English language teachers, have been impacted by the Covid-19 pandemic. The researcher conducted semi-structured interviews to investigate the impacts of Covid-19 on English language teachers. Data were collected from ten participants, and thematic analysis techniques were used to analyze the data, including data familiarization, generating codes, grouping codes, generating themes, and finalizing findings. The study reveals that the pandemic has significantly impacted education, particularly English language teaching. It has led to a loss of interactive classroom experiences and obstacles to language acquisition. However, participants have benefited from increased accessibility to international seminars, workshops, and conferences. It has removed geographical and financial barriers, allowing participants to attend events at no cost and providing valuable educational advantages. Future research could benefit from larger-scale participation. In that case, a better understanding of the impact of valuable educational advantages gained from international events amidst Covid-19 on teachers’ teaching performances in the post-pandemic needs to be developed.

Does humour used in EFL classrooms in Islamic higher education reflect Islamic values?

ABSTRACT This study examined the use of humour in EFL classrooms in Islamic higher education in Indonesia. It intends to find out whether Indonesian EFL teacher educators used humour as pedagogy and how they used it. Using a narrative inquiry method, it involved 25 EFL students undertaking English Writing courses working in groups of two or three members to write descriptive texts on the humorous moments in their classroom process. Nine of them were purposively selected for analysis using humour theories and removed the rest because of not humorous moments. It revealed that the teacher educators used various kinds of humour in EFL classrooms, such as humorous comments, lecturers’ humorous life stories, puns, and teasing students. However, most were unrelated to the course materials they taught and did not reflect Islamic values. In conclusion, this study has provided insights into humour used in the Indonesian Islamic higher education, which is crucial for academics to pay attention to using humour, such as not harming students.

Tracking Religious Moderation Discourse Content on Student’s Final Paper in Indonesian Islamic Higher Education

Abstract Albeit research into religious moderation at Indonesian Islamic Higher Education (PTKIN) has been widely undertaken, little empirical research reports on tracing students’ final works as critical research to examine the alignment of PTKIN’s vision in support of government programs to build an inclusive and moderate discourse on religious understanding distribution. This study employs Tracing of Research Studies in three steps, taxonomy analysis, citation analysis, and statistical analysis of diversity. The analysis was conducted on Qur’an and Hadith theses and dissertations published by five institutions. The findings indicate that the religious moderation discourse established in PTKIN’s dissertation and thesis truly conveys the ambiguity of its concept. The ideas employed in the research obscured the government's concepts in establishing religious moderation in the Indonesian setting. This research proposes that mainstreaming religious moderation in PTKIN be implemented more thoroughly, particularly in compiling students’ final papers. Abstrak Meski telah banyak penelitian terkait moderasi beragama di Perguruan Tinggi Keagamaan Islam Negeri (PTKIN), penelitian empiris yang menelusuri karya akhir mahasiswa masih terbatas, khususnya kajian kritis untuk mengeksplorasi keselarasan perwujudan visi dan misi PTKIN dalam mendukung program pemerintah untuk menciptakan paham keagamaan yang bersifat inklusif dan moderat. Penelitian ini menerapkan Tracing of Research Studies dengan tiga langkah analisis yaitu analisis taksonomi, analisis kutipan, dan analisis statistik keragaman. Analisis tersebut dilakukan terhadap tesis dan disertasi Al-Qur’an dan Hadis yang diterbitkan oleh 5 PTKIN. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa diskursus yang dikembangkan dalam tesis dan disertasi PTKIN justru mengesankan ambiguitas gagasan moderasi beragama. Gagasan yang digunakan dalam penelitian mengaburkan konsep yang telah dikonsep oleh pemerintah sebagai pedoman untuk mencapai moderasi beragama dalam konteks keIndonesiaan. Penelitian ini menyarankan agar strategi pengarusutamaan moderasi beragama di PTKIN dilakukan secara lebih komprehensif khususnya dalam produksi karya tulis akhir mahasiswa.

EFL Students' Views of the Multicultural Education in an Indonesian Islamic Higher Education

Education cannot be separated from culture. It is possible to provide learning and be tolerant of other cultures. Multicultural education offers diverse cultures, ethnicity, and religion. The study aims to explore students' views of multicultural education in learning at an Indonesian Islamic higher education. It employs a descriptive study by applying a quantitative approach. By considering the ethnic and study program, respondents in this study were determined through the purposive sampling technique by involving 25 students from the Faculty of Tarbiyah and Teacher Training UINSI Samarinda, each representing five different study programs in the faculty. They enrolled as Ma’had Al-Jami’ah students obligated to study English in their initial semester. They were chosen from various study programs because they came from different ethnic backgrounds. This study collects data with a questionnaire instrument distributed online through a Google Forms. Descriptive statistics were used to tabulate and present the quantitative data collected from the questionnaire. The findings in this study provide an overview of the different perspectives of students at Islamic higher education on multicultural education in their learning. This study groups students' views of multicultural education in learning at Islamic higher education into three categories, (1) Highly Supportive on Multicultural Education, (2) Moderately Supportive on Multicultural Education, and (3) Lowly Supportive on Multicultural Education. Most of them have understood the values of multicultural education and are very supportive of its implementation in every lecture and campus policy but there are still students who do not understand the values of this multicultural education. Continuous studies are necessary to support the application of this multicultural education from time to time according to the needs of each institution.

ACCREDITATION-BASED QUALITY BUILDING RECONSTRUCTION TOWARDS EXCELLENT PTKI

The main problem and spectrum that is always faced by Indonesian Islamic Higher Education (PTKI) is the low and not optimal quality of the three missions of higher education, namely education, research, and service. Various problems related to this are increasingly visible from the fact that the system's alignment, and policies to the institutional leadership structure seem to leave quality as an agenda, and programs are not prioritized. Therefore, the aspects and functions of quality management at PTKI are important. Improvement in Quality Management in PTKI should be oriented to build a quality culture in all components and elements of the academic community The most urgent quality culture for PTKI that must be done in meeting quality standards is to strengthen the system and meet the accreditation standards that have been required to achieve maximum results. In the context of accreditation, building quality must also strengthen the position in the sector of coordination, synchronization, and supervision between the entire academic community. The most urgent quality culture for PTKI that must be done in meeting quality standards is to strengthen the system and meet the accreditation standards that have been required to achieve maximum results. The transformation of seven criteria into 9 criteria in the accreditation system has consequences and consistency in the assessment aspect that leads to the outcomes (achievements of the process and usefulness) that have been passed by PTKI with various implementations based on its quality standards/guidelines. This research uses qualitative methods that are descriptive-analytical and seeks to analyze how the supporting factors of quality culture exist PTKI. This study uses a qualitative method that is descriptive-analytical and seeks to analyze how the factors supporting the quality culture in PTKI.

Integrating Islamic Values into Science Learning in Indonesian Islamic Higher Education: Expectation and Implementation

Integrating Islamic science in universities is very important to be applied to form human resources with character. This study aimed to analyze the expectations and implementation of the integration of Islamic values in lecturers of PTKIN in Aceh. This qualitative descriptive approach involved three deputy deans for academic affairs, nine lecturers, and 12 students from 3 PTKINs in Aceh. Data collection was through an interview, observation, and document analysis (curriculum, books, standard operating procedures (SOPs), and Rencana Pembelajaran Semesters (RPS) or semesterly lesson plans). Data analysis was carried out with an interactive model. The results revealed that integrating Islamic values into the sciences was very diverse in each PTKIN in Aceh. The lecturers had different views and interpretations of the paradigm of integrating Islamic values into learning regarding the boundaries and the concepts applied. Besides, there were no written standard rules and policies (SOP) on integrating Islamic values and limited references used by lecturers in implementing science learning that integrates Islamic values. PTKIN hopes to achieve its vision, goals, and objectives in integrating Islamic values. These objectives can be achieved in science learning. This study concluded that science integration at PTKINs in Aceh had not been consistently carried out, affecting the implemented level that may, in turn, affect the students’ learning. Nevertheless, this study has not examined a set of learning.

Projecting the Mobility of School Teachers of Islamic Subject From Indonesia to Malaysia, Brunei Darussalam, and Thailand in the Era of Asean Free Market

This article deals with mapping of teacher’s competence for Islamic religious subject in facing ASEAN Economic Community. Since the free market has launched in 2015, ASEAN countries will transform to be a region in which goods, services, skilled workers and capital can move freely. It means that all skilled workers, including teachers of Islamic subjects, have the same access to get a good job suitable with their competence in ASEAN countries. To prepare such skilled workers, it is very important to understand and to map the competences standard of Islamic religious teacher set up by Islamic education institutions (schools) in ASEAN countries.We conclude that there are at least two basic competences and five additional competences required. Two basic competences are mastery of Islamic teachings (theology and law) and good command in Arabic, both written and spoken (muhadathah). While five additional competences are mastering local languages (Malay and Thai); English; writing and reading Malay-Arabic script (Arab-Jawi);performing Islamic rituals with a special reference to Shafi‘i’s school of thought; and computer literacy. To compete and to fulfill the demand of the above competences, it is needed to make sure that the implementation of the curriculum of Islamic Education Department in the Faculty of Islamic Education in Indonesian Islamic higher education has been going well, and to adopt as well as to change it as long as in line with the competences needed.

Perception and Expectation of EFL Students on Ideal Online Learning: A Survey Study in an Indonesian Islamic Higher Education

The present study is aimed to investigate EFL students’ perception on the use of Google Classroom as an online learning platform and their expectation on an ideal online learning. 112 EFL students at State Islamic University of Mataram responded the survey study which was designed with open-ended questions. Students’ responses were qualitatively analyzed to find the main themes and sub-themes. The finding reveals that most students, 67%, perceived the use of Google classroom negatively due to the potential problems such as technical and financial problems that lead to misunderstanding on materials delivered by the teachers. On the other hand, 27% of the students have a positive perception in terms of the ease of use and its flexibility and accessibility. The least perception from the students is neutral especially from those who play safe by perceiving the perception from both positive and negative side. Furthermore, the students proposed an ideal online learning that employ an effective teaching method and curriculum, provide such complete facilities as well combine both online and offline mode (blended learning).

Konsistensi Penerapan Metode Mawdu‘i dalam Skripsi Program Studi Ilmu Al-Qur’an dan Tafsir Tahun 2019-2021

Al-Farmāwī’s thematic interpretation scheme (mawḍū‘ī) has inspired the development of Qur’anic studies in Indonesian Islamic higher education. The State Islamic Universities (PTKIN) in Indonesia as an Islamic scholarship locomotive have a significant role in the development of the methodology of Qur’anic interpretation. This article analyzes the consistency of the application of thematic interpretation method in the final project of the Qur’an and Tafsir students. This article employs the content analysis method and uses the concepts of al-Farmāwī’s thematic interpretation as a theoretical framework. This study concludes that the majority of undergraduate theses are inconsistent in applying the al-Farmāwī’s thematic interpretation method. The inconsistency lies in the accuracy in the selection of keywords that are used as the basis for collecting and determining the verses of the Qur’an, the organization of the verses of the Qur’an that are not based on the order of revelation (tartīb al-nuzūlī), the lack of citation of the hadith, the failure synchronization between the problem and the conclusion.

The Use of Islamic Literature to Teach Ethical English

Ethical English instruction has paved the way for every religion to make its interpretation. From the Islam religion perspective, such interpretation is still under research. This study describes how ethical English instruction takes place in an Indonesian Islamic higher education institution; how literature, particularly Islamic literature, becomes a factor of ethical English instruction; and the students' transformation through ethical English instruction. Applying a content analysis method, this case study involved 60 freshmen students of the English language education program of State Islamic Institute of Metro, Lampung, Indonesia. The research data was drawn from five main data sources, namely interviews, classroom observations, teaching materials, samples of students' works, and questionnaires. This study shows that (1) the use of Islamic literature to teach ethical English in the Indonesian Islamic higher education is potential; (2) text exploitability becomes a dominant factor in ethical English instruction; and (3) a contextualized approach, derived from the existing global approach and local teaching method, transforms the students positively. It is concluded that ethical English teaching within Indonesian Islamic higher education ought to utilize Islamic literature and be conducted through a contextualized approach.

Validating a model of OCBIP practices in Indonesian Islamic Higher Education Institutions: A structural Equation Modeling Approach

This study aims to validate and confirm a structural equation modeling (hypothesized model) of organizational citizenship behavior from Islamic perspective (OCBIP) practices in Indonesian state Islamic higher education institutions. This study employed a quantitative survey method to collect the data from 450 academic staff of six States Islamic Higher Education Institutions across Indonesia using a five-point organizational citizenship behavior scale based on Islamic perspective. A descriptive analysis technique was performed to comprehend the respondents view on the practice of underlying factor, followed by the application of confirmatory factor analysis and full-fledge SEM. The study’s findings exhibited that the academic staff in the sampled higher institutions of learning had high inclination and passion for practicing OCBIP in their respective working place. Results also showed a high degree of OCBIP practices by academic staff in selected higher education institutions. Theoretically, the study also established a four factor model of OCBIP practices such as altruism, civic virtue, advocating high moral standards (da’wah), and removing harm (raf’al haraj). The result was deliberated through SEM on the observed instruments, and the hypothesized model of OCBIP under the study was empirically valid and reliable. The findings provided a remarkable contribution for institutions of higher learning and top management to intensify the operation of OCB based on Islamic perspective in Higher Education Institutions (HEIs). The practical contributions guide the academic staff, particularly in Indonesian state Islamic higher education institutions and other regions, to embrace all principal human resource development and management practices. The study has successfully tested, formulated, and validated the hypothesized model of organizational citizenship behavior based on the Islamic perspective for Indonesian State Islamic Higher Education Institutions.

Voices of English Department Students on Multicultural Values in an Indonesian Islamic Higher Education

This study aims to explore multicultural education values in an Islamic higher education institution. This research focuses particularly on students’ views on multicultural education values. This study aims to fill the absence of Islamic university students’ voices on multiculturalism. This study draws from several concepts of multicultural education values using multiple case studies approach. The data for this investigation is gained through semi-structure interviews and is analyzed through systematic approach. The result of the study shows that there is new themes appear in this research. These themes extends the existing multicultural values proposed and identified in the earlier studies. This study has both pedagogical and social implications.

Studying the Qurʾan in the Context of Indonesian Islamic Higher Education

Abstract This essay reconsiders some of Majid Daneshgar’s arguments in his Studying the Qurʾan in the Muslim Academy. The first part of the essay discusses what counts as the Muslim academy and how it is represented in this book. I examine his arguments that the Muslim academy does not do Islamic studies but rather an apologetic, descriptive, and normative study of Islam, and that the Muslim academy’s reception of Western Qurʾanic scholarship is dismissive, hostile, poor, selective, and apologetic. Its second part examines his argument that the Muslim academy does not engage in a “critical study” of the Qurʾan and Islam. Through a juxtaposition with my experience teaching at UIN Sunan Kalijaga Yogyakarta and the development of Islamic higher education in Indonesia, I argue that Daneshgar’s thesis is an over-generalization of what he regards as the Muslim academy, obscuring its plural nature worldwide. I also question whether it is appropriate to talk about the Muslim academy in universal terms. I further argue that to analyze academic study of Islam and the Qurʾan in the Muslim world, one needs to consider the latter’s context and history and its dynamic in relation to secular epistemologies developed in the West.

Islamic economic development in Indonesian Islamic higher education

This study aims to explore how changes in community preferences, shari’ah economic development through the tridharma of higher education and its contribution to the development of shari’ah economics. This study was conducted at the UIN Alauddin Makassar, South Sulawesi, Indonesia. This study applied library research. Data collection techniques in this study using discourse from books, articles, magazines, journals, and web (internet). Furthermore, the data were analyzed using the Miles and Huberman model, among others, data reduction, data display and conclusion. The results show that there is a change in community preferences caused by external factors (changes in the social and economic environment) and internal factors in higher education in responding to community dynamics. Higher education can be used as a vehicle in the development of shari’ah Economy through the application of higher education tridharma. Furthermore, higher education also takes a significant role in developing scientific aspects and human resources in the field of Sharia Economics in Indonesia.