The Teaching Methods and Techniques Of The Prophet (PBUH): An Exploratory Study
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Teaching, Methods, Techniques, Prophet, ExplanatoryAbstract
The impacts of the secular education system on the Muslims are very alarming. It has been creating doubts, errors, fantasies, disconnections and confusions in the mind of the Muslims and most importantly the youth. This pathetic scenario metamorphoses and it has been causing the youths too greatly in losing their self-identity as Muslims. The inability to learn and experience the uniqueness of the educational pedagogy of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) has failed many people woefully to see the beauty of Islam in its holistic approach with regards to its educational pedagogy. Different pedagogical theories that have been formulated by the secular educationists carried out the notion of different belief systems from the west and its Eurocentric ideology. However, having studied the life and teachings of a man who has been considered as the best exemplary and the modest for the entire humanity by the Muslim and non-Muslims alike. It has been clearly noted that there are varieties of ways and teaching methods applied by the Prophet (PBUH) to educate the old and the young in different ways, nature, time, techniques or different patterns. This study is aimed to revisiting or unraveling different methods used by the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) to nurture and educate his companions, family, friends and foes alike. This study is carried out through exploratory research to revisiting different teaching methods and techniques of the Prophet (PBUH) from different sources such as Hadith, Sunnah and the Seerah of the Prophet (PBUH). The researchers tried to gain further insights in different aspects with includes strategies, applications, stages and processes, etc. The researcher initially started with general overview about of the teaching methods and the techniques exercised by Prophet (PBUH), in his holistic methods of teaching and learning. This has been used as a tool to identify some critical related issues that could pave ways to different area of focuses for the furtherance study. Amongst the instruments used in this study includes documents analysis, journals, books, university record and report, interviewing Islamic educators and observation. A critical analysis is also used to shed more light on those different teaching methods used by the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) and its relevance to different techniques in the pedagogical education.
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