PEMBARUAN PENDIDIKAN ISLAM NAHDLATUL ULAMA
Abstract: This article tries
to understand and explain the basic concept and the essence of the NU
educational reform (tajdīd) and the relationship of its schoolship view and its
contribution to the Islamic educational resurgence after the Indonesia
independence in meeting the new demands and the challenges of the modern era.
Using the socio-historical-phenomenological approach, the result concludes that
the basic concept of the NU educational reform is identical with the
dinamization in the sense of change toward the correction and perfection of the
condition of the Islamic education which is unbeneficial for its future. The
essence of the effort is more focused on the substantial aspects of education
than the technical-pedagogical ones in charge of the reposition and
reactualization or revitalization of the social function of the Islamic
education of the modern era. By reposition means the effort to redetermine the
position of system and institution of traditional Islamic education, especially
pesantren and madrasa, in order that they are suitable for new demands of
modern education through the rehabilation of their old and absolete elements,
and inovation by means of entering new and useful elements in to enpower their
social functions optimally. Reactualization or revitalization means the effort
to reactivate the basic principles of the classical Islamic education which are
almost forgotten, on which the modern Islamic education hold them as the philosophical
guidances for the universality of their values. Such effort are inseparable
from the ideas and activities of the existence of the independence and
progressive pesantren teachers (ulama) so that the conservativness of the
schoolship views of the NU do not hinder and even motivate it to modernization.
Its approach which enpowering the traditon legacies, and being integrally
combined with the new elements of modern education distinguishes clearly
theconcept of NU educational reform from the similar effort of the Muslim
reformists which rest too much on the new elements of modern education. The new
model of the system and institution of NU education has given valuable
contributions not only to the completion and enrichment of the national
education system and institution but also the strengthening the pillars of
tenacity of the national culture as a whole.
Penulis: Mahrus As’ad
Kode Jurnal: jpperadabanislamdd140396
