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A Madrasah General Education Program for Muslim Mindanao
Lolita Junio Damonsong Rodriguez
- Publisher
- Mindanao State University
- Year
- 1992
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 216
- ISBN
- 9789711110536
- Availability
- Out of print
No longer sold new: look for it in a library, or for a used copy.
About the book
A proposal, from an MSU educator, for a madrasah curriculum that could be recognised by the state, decades before the ALIVE programme.
Lolita Junio Damonsong-Rodriguez sets out a general education programme for the madrasah, the Islamic schools of Muslim Mindanao. The 216-page book was published in 1992 by the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and Extension of the Mindanao State University System in Marawi City, with illustrations and a 12-page bibliography.
A 2001 policy paper on bringing the madrasah into the Philippine school system, by Helen de Castro and Maria Camila Luz Ginete, drew on the book for its account of how these schools work. Most teach Arabic and Islamic studies, above all Qur'an reading, usually in Arabic, and some add maths, science and health. A full course takes 12 years in 3 stages of 4 years each: Ibtida'i, I'dade and Thanawi. A school that offers all 12 years is a ma'ahad. Most madrasahs are run by their owners, a community group or a mosque body, and live on fees and gifts, sometimes from the Middle East. In 2001, the paper notes, the government still did not recognise them.
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