I am looking for a 11,000-word master’s dissertation about the role of the PGA Islamic Education course at Warwick Uni in shaping the professional identity of British Darul Uloom (Islamic seminary) graduates who have gone on to pursue this Islamic Education course and graduate from university thereafter.
I am looking to examine the impact of this course on their professional developments as faith leaders and educators of British Muslim communities post-graduation.
I would like to explore if they feel the course has affected their pedagogic practise. This is partly to assess if graduates learn to develop educational awareness and competence and how to become better teachers, faith leaders, etc.
I am looking for an abstract, an introduction, a literature review, and a methodology section. My discussions, results, and conclusion chapters will come after I have done the fieldwork. For methodology, I will be using a phenomenological analysis framework using genetic and generative levels, as well as qualitative research methods such as semi-structured interviews. I am planning to interview seven participants, do a pilot of the interview, and also do a documentary analysis of the PGA course.
For the literature review, it is also important that the work explores the challenges of Muslim faith leadership education within the context of British Muslim communities and ways of trying to bridge the pedagogical gap between the traditional Muslim seminaries and mainstream universities. Also, the literature for my specific topic is thin, as there are not many recent studies investigating my specific topic, but there is broad literature for “Islamic Education Studies,” which my topic is centred around.
In the project, there needs to be a section about:
1) Islamic Pedagogy and Tarbiyah – how it developed, its history
2) The historical background of Darul Uloom’s in the UK – how they transplanted into Britain from South Asia,
3) History of Muslims migrating into the UK
4) Ethics section – write about following BERA(2018) ethical guidelines.
Please use the PDF’s and documents provided for guidance and the mark scheme.