ISLAMIC EDUCATION BY IBNU KALDUN

ISLAMIC EDUCATION BY IBNU KALDUN

a. Brief Beografi Ibn Khaldun

Kaldun full name is Abdur-Rahman Ibn Zayd Bin Waliyuddin Khaldun, was born in Tunisia on 1 Ramadhan732 H, coinciding with the date May 27, 1332 AD his first name is Abdur-Rahman, while Zaid was the name of the family pangilan while waliyuddin an honor bestowed by the king of Egypt when he was appointed chairman of the court in Egypt.

A scholar of the one, is very unique and awesome. Actually, it was eventually he who ought to be regarded like the founding father of the social sciences. He was born and died at that time from the holy month of Ramadan. His full name is Waliuddin Abdurrahman ibn Muhammad ibn Muhammad ibn Abi Bakr Muhammad ibn al-Hasan, then distinguished as Ibn Khaldun. His thoughts were brilliant capable of giving great influence to intellectuals of West and East, both Muslims and non-Muslims. Inside the span of his life, Ibn Khaldun was crammed with various events, wanderings, and changes to numerous major tasks and political position, scientific and judicial. 

Between Maghrib and the Andalusia, then between Maghrib and Eastern countries provide a big enough wisdom. He‘s a descendant from the companions from the Prophet. named Wail bin Hujr of tribes Kindah. Ibn Khaldun believes strongly once, that basically stands for countries to depend on first-generation (founders ) that have the determination and strength to establish a state. Then, followed from the second generation who enjoy stability and prosperity that left the very first generation. Then, There‘ll come a third generation that grew towards serenity, pleasure, and seduced from the material to ensure that little by little the buildings spiritually weakened and also the country was destroyed, either because of internal weakness and attack the enemies are stronger than the surface watchful weakness.

Because his thoughts were briliyan Ibn Khaldun is seen like the foundation stone from the social sciences and political Islam. Basic education adopted by his father's Koran makes Ibn Khaldun understand about Islam, and diligently seek knowledge along with the Islamic sciences. As Muslims and hafidz Koran, he would uphold the greatness from the Qur'an. As said by him, Understand that Koranic schools include religious symbols accepted by Muslims through the entire Islamic world. By simply since they were educational Koran can seep into the guts and strengthens faith. And teaching the Koran also should take precedence before developing other sciences.
 

b. Ibn Khaldun's thinking about Islamic Education:

1) Philosophy of Islamic Education. Education according to Ibn Khaldun's core activity is not a mere reflection of thought and far from pragmatic aspects of life education is not labih details should be limited in terms of teaching and learning but rather a process where humans consciously grasp, absorb, and to live events - events nature throughout the ages.

2) Objectives of Islamic Education. Islamic educational goals according to Ibn Khaldun is included

five things:

- Preparing a person from the religious aspect.

- Setting up the person in terms of morality

- Preparing a person in terms of community and social

- Preparing a person in terms of work

- Preparing a person in terms of thought and arts in order to be creative

So the purpose of education not only to achieve pengetahaun science course, but more distant than the one that everyone should be implementing in everyday morality and have the ability to be creative and work for life.

3) Teaching Method. Teaching methods offered by Ibn Khaldun through three basic steps:

- In giving knowledge to their students, educators should provide the knowledge and the problem is usually just as a whole.

- The students participate in interactive problem solving and general knowledge were with the help of educators.

- Educators are detaial convey knowledge and more detailed and comprehensive so that students get a better knowledge of the information that sempurnah.Maka, Ibn Khaldun offers a method that is discussion, in which the delivery of learning, educators are not the only people who take an active role but the child students are also included in the process of learning and solving the problem.

- Curriculum. Curriculum according to Ibn Khaldun on the cover of which have 4 things in accordance with the desired educational goals, based on science, makhlumat-edict (learning through traditional books) as well as providing additional support activities. The most important thing according to him is a basic curriculum that is a mixture of curriculum to be held for children in general, combining the learning of the Qur'an and the Arabic language with the basic rules of science.