Capacity enhancement of the indigenous Qur'anic schools in Somalia : an alternative model to deliver basic formal education
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Date
2006-01
Authors
Ali Abdalah Warsame
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Universiti Sains Malaysia
Abstract
In any country, formal education plays a major, or even vital role in transforming
the aspirations and needs of its people into reality. Somalia today, represents an
underdeveloped nation where the state-run formal schooling system had once
failed to provide basic education to the deprived nomadic peoples who constitute
60 percent of the population. Since the outbreak of Civil War in 1991, that formal
schooling system had become almost non-existent. Yet, throughout its long
history, the indigenous Qur'anic schools, with its few variations, continue to
provide the necessary Islamic education to the children and young adults of the
country. Given the setting, the overall aim of this case study is to look closely at
the possibility of using the "Hybrid" Qur'anic School (HQS) system -- an
indigenous institution that has remained largely intact and continued operating
during this long conflict - as a viable alternative mode for providing access to
formal basic education to a large number of children in urban and semi-urban
centers.
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Study and teaching , Religious education , Capacity enhancement of the indigenous Qur'anic schools in Somalia : an alternative model to deliver basic formal education