PENGEMBANGAN PENDIDIKAN ISLAM: SUATU TELAAH EPISTEMOLOGIS

Abstract

bNowadayas the world Indonesia facing the current of modernity nd its chalenges which flow very rapidly and clear away the strength of human life. Islamic education, as a part of historical reality of all human beings, does not escape these problems. The challenges brought out by the modernity to the Islamic education force all elements involved to decide their approaches. Accordingly, many efforts have been done including revising the curriculum, revitalizing the institutions and the Islamization of knowledge. This paper does not aim to place itself as a complete and perfect master plan which is offered to overcome the challenge of modernity, rather, it is merely a descriptive-philosophical reflection of the historical reality which is faced by the Islamic education. It tries to stimulate our mind to seek some answers fot the challenges faced by the islamic education by means of demonstruction and/or reconstruction of the epistemological paradigm. This effort is meant to reach the true and basic aim in the Islamic education System. In accordance with the program of the Islamization of knowledge. This epistemological reconstruction Indonesia deperately needed. These two efforts are aimed to eliminate some facts and impressions of the dichotomy perceived in the Islamic education by uniting religious sciences and secular sciences into one single discourse. This paper give particular attention to the transforamtion of the IAIN to the STAIN and the 1997 curriculum, which are perceived as the first promosing step to support of Islamization of knowledge as well as the epistemological reconstruction in the Islamic education, particulary in Indonesia.