Knowledge and the University: Islam and Development in the Southeast Asia Cooperation Region

ISBN-13: 9789811669880 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 175 str.

Masudul Alam Choudhury

Opis

This book looks at a substantively new model of educational philosophy and its application within the field of tertiary education, in relation to socio-economic development in Southeast Asian members of the Organization of Islamic Conferences (OIC). Focusing on and drawing from the cross-regional South East Asian Cooperation (SEACO), a network promoting regional economic cooperation, the author presents a thoughtful evocation of a new orientation to educational philosophy and policy within the development context in the time of, and relating to, COVID-19. The generalized worldview of Islamic educational and socio-economic development model is laid down in relation to the philosophy of education and an ethical-scientific structure of development in terms of the theory of knowledge (epistemology, episteme). The foundation of scientific thought and a comparative Islamic worldview in understanding the unified reality of ‘everything’ is presented. The objectivity of socio-scientific learning at all levels of educational development is further explained within the context of SEACO and its think tank vis-à-vis a reconstructive perspective in which the Islamic episteme of the unity of knowledge and its substantive methodology is addressed and unpacked. The book is relevant to policymakers and scholarly researchers in Islamic philosophy and development and higher education in Southeast Asia and in the Muslim world and more broadly for the world of learning.  

Spis treści

Chapter 1: Introduction: Objectivity and Structure for Educational and Socio-Scientific Development Worldview: the SEACO University.- Chapter 2: Educational Philosophy and Development Perspectives in Comparative Islamic Worldview.- Chapter 3: Educational and Socio-Scientific Development Outlook of Muslim SEACO-Region.- Chapter 4: The Educational and Socio-Scientific Development Model Prescription for SEACO-Region: The Unified Multidisciplinary Epistemic and Institutional Reconstruction.- Chapter 5:  Application of the Dynamic Input-Output Coefficients Model in Estimating Potential Cooperation by Trade and Monetary Integration: Applying the SEACO-University Epistemic Worldview.- Chapter 6: The Multidisciplinary Educational Production Function for SEACO University: The Circular Causation Model of Systemic Integration.- Chapter 7: The Enterprise Perspective of SEACO-University.- Chapter 8: Centre for Advanced Socio-Scientific Learning (CASSL) in SEACO University.- Chapter 9: Financial Viability of SEACO University  Chapter 10: Handwork of SEACO University Curriculum.

O autorze

Professor Masudul Alam Choudhury is one of a handful of academic scholars in the field of Islamic studies with a focus on Islamic economics and finance. His work has been highly recognised in both Western and Muslim academic circles. Professor Choudhury obtained his Ph.D. specializing in the field of Human Capital Theory and Economic Growth from the University of Toronto. He is the first academic in his field to address the original methodology of Tawhid (monotheism) as ontological law in the development of a Theory of Meta-Science. Professor Choudhury is the International Chair in the Postgraduate Program in Islamic Economics and Finance at Trisakti University in Jakarta, Indonesia. He teaches and supervises doctoral students, and researches and publishes in the areas of Islamic socio-scientific methodology, shari’ah and economics, and policy-theoretic applications using these foundational areas of Islamic studies. He is a regular Summer Visiting Professor in the Social Economy Center of the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto.