Model Of Quranic Teaching For Elderly
Malaysia is becoming an ageing nation in the year 2023. Even though preparations in terms of financial, services, health and others are being commenced, the education aspect, especially the spiritual is yet to be streamlined. Despite Quranic classes are being held, they are, however, receiving unfav...
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| Summary: | Malaysia is becoming an ageing nation in the year 2023. Even though preparations in terms of financial, services, health and others are being commenced, the education aspect, especially the spiritual is yet to be streamlined. Despite Quranic classes are being held, they are, however, receiving unfavourable responses from the group of the elderly. This owes to the approaches and methods being applied are unfitting to the capacity of the elderly. Naturally, the elderly face all sorts of deterioration – physically, cognitively and psychologically – that makes their learning experience more challenging. Therefore, it is imperative to have a kind of Quranic teaching model tailored for the elderly to accommodate teaching al-Quran levelled to their capacity. Subsequently, the elderly could enjoy Quranic lessons and adopt them as life-long learning. For that reason, this research applied the approach of Design and Development Research (DDR). It involved three conducted phases; the first phase for the needs analysis, the second phase for the design and development, and the last phase for experts evaluation. In the first phase, data was gathered by conducting interviews with nine identified experts. Findings from the first phase indicate that the learning challenges for the elderly are divided into five, which are (i) lack of awareness for the knowledge, (ii) physical deterioration, (iii) cognitive issues, (iv) psychological issues, and (v) lack of learning facilities. These challenges granted expert consensus upon the need for the development model of Quranic teaching specifically for the elderly. The second phase, which is the design and development phase, adopted the Fuzzy Delphi Method. This phase involved 15 experts in the field of research. The findings indicate that these experts agreed the model should comprise of four elements, which are (i) Procces of Quranic teaching, (ii) teachers criteria, (iii) syllabus, and (iv) learning facilities. In addition, experts also agreed upon eight constructs and 88 items contained in the model and those items have been arranged according to priority. In the third phase which is the evaluation phase, Nominal Group Technique (NGT) method was applied where six experts evaluated the developed prototype model. The findings indicate that every element, construct and 92 items are on the satisfactory level and viable, with scores above 70% for the assessment value. This model has what it takes to serve as a guide for teachers or instructors teaching al-Quran to the elderly either individually, in the masjid or even in private learning classes. |
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