The Reformation of Pesantren Education System: The Study on Abdul Wahid Hasyim Thoughts the Perspective of Islamic Education Philosophy
Abstract: Islamic educational
orientation of AWH life in the middle of the twentieth century is purely
religious. While AWH already initiated educational reform for Pesantren
(boarding schools) oriented on ideal hereafter and mundane pragmatic. Islamic
education which was formerly monopolized by traditional educational
institutions and the students who could not think freely were reviewed by AWH
through encouraging his students to think more openly and free yet carry on
proper obedient to the teachers. The analysis was conducted through data
reduction, display, and data verification. According to AWH, human is perfect
being consists of physical and spiritual components and homo educandus capable
of thinking, feeling and reasoning spiritually. The perfectness can be achieved
through education by developing the potential and thinking skills, physical
skills strengthened by faith. Pesantren educational reformations are (1) the
foundation of pesantren education are Ilahiyah verses (Al-Qur’an and Sunnah)
and kauniyah (the evidence of God’s existence appeared in natural laws, the
system of universe); (2) The purpose of pesantren education is to shape human
to be virtuous being accompanied with developed thinking skills, piety to
Allah, and equipped with life skills. This, is actually in accordance with
contemporary educational thought which covers cognitive, affective, spiritual
and psychomotor aspects; (3) the curriculum of pesantren education should
balance between practical life and ideal life, that is between religious
sciences and secular sciences; (4) the teaching methods applied in pesantren
are traditional methods such as sorogan and bandongan, as well as modern
methods such as experiment, tutorial, and mudzakarah (discussions nad
seminars); (5) learning resources such as library constitutes the heart of
scientific life in pesantren, which was distinctively remarkable in AWH’s era.
Factors influencing AWH’s thoughts are his own personal learning, the
burgeoning thoughts proliferating during his era, social-cultural environment,
educational background, his own intelligence, and support from policy makers,
particularly his own family.
Keywords: Components Of
Pesantren Education, The Positive-Active, Rational Religious-Pragmatic,
Structure Of The Basic Idea
Author: Maragustam
Journal Code: jppendidikangg160039
