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Environmental factors can increase students' achievement in understanding learning content and can increase the level of vocabulary mastery. This study aims to identify the influence of the Arabic language environment on the proficiency level of Arabic vocabulary among students from the Selangor State Secondary Religious School (SAM). This study involved 23 SAMs in Selangor and 335 people from a population of 2,653 students. Inferential analysis was used to analyse the data involving Pearson Correlation and Multiple Linear Regression tests. The results show that the dimensions of the Arabic environment (dimension of student cohesion, student involvement and task-oriented student attitude) significantly contribute to students' Arabic vocabulary proficiency. The contribution accounts for 31.0% of the variance to the students' proficiency of Arabic vocabulary, of which student cohesion is the largest contributor (8.57%). This study shows that the formation of the learning environment space needs to be strengthened through active interaction among students and improving teacher support so that the stability of the language learning environment space is formed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Nowadays, there are various forms of actions and provocations that are against the culture and values of patriotism among the Malaysian community, especially school leaders who are said to be unpatriotic. This paper focuses on the awareness of religious school leaders which consists of Religious Secondary Schools (SMA), Government Religious Aid Schools (SABK) regarding the level of knowledge of religious school leaders regarding the knowledge of patriotism. The problem of lack of awareness of the value of patriotism will certainly challenge and prevent the application, nurturing of values and the spirit of patriotism as an element in the formation of a harmonious and united Malaysian nation. A total of 263 religious school leaders in Malaysia were involved in this study. The results of this study were obtained through a questionnaire that was analyzed descriptively. The overall measurement of the instrument, which is the concept of patriotism and patriotism in the constitution, which is the main construct to assess the level of knowledge of religious school leaders regarding patriotism. The results of this study show that the religious school leadership's awareness of the value of patriotism is high. The level of school leaders' awareness of patriotism in the constitution is also high and shows that religious school leaders who are patriotic are capable of being an intermediary factor or agent of change towards the bond of community unity and students of various ethnicities in Malaysia. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article discusses an Indonesian woman named Noer Nahar who struggled and sacrificed time and money to help her husband, Natsir achieve his ambition of developing a modern religious school known as the Pendis School (1932-1942) during the Dutch colonial era, specifically in Java. The article examines the role and character of a modern woman in the struggle to shape awareness in children and women in terms of education, nationalism and the emancipation of Indonesian women. According to Noer Nahar, the Indonesians were not only weak in general knowledge of the world, their religious knowledge too was not properly developed in the modern education system. Based on these problems, the main objective of this study is to analyze the role of Noer Nahar's struggles in establishing a modern religious school, known as the Pendis School in West Java. The question now is, did Noer Nahar's struggles to form such a school, succeed? The discussion in this paper is based on the analysis of various resources spanning from private letters, work papers and interviews, to the archival research method based study that analysed Dutch documents. This research employed materials and data from the National Archives of Indonesia, the National Library of Indonesia and the Dewan Dakwah Islamiyah of Indonesia. This paper traces Noer Nahar's struggle in developing a modern religious school despite not getting any support from the Dutch colonial regime. As a female teacher, she also fostered education through Indonesian nationalism to her students for the ultimate purpose of obtaining Indonesian independence. This writing highlights Indonesian women figures in the folds of history for public knowledge and awareness. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Leadership style is one of the most important aspects that every headmasters should have. At the same time, every style of leadership applied can also influence a school's climate, whether it be positive or negative. This survey aimed to examine teachers' perceptions of the dominant leadership style practiced by headmasters and its relationship to school climate in religious sharing schools in Brunei. A questionnaire was used to collect data, and the data were analysed descriptively and inferentially. A total of 108 religious teachers from ten religious sharing schools in Brunei and Muara District were involved as sample. The results show that the most dominant leadership style practiced by the headmasters is the democratic leadership style, followed by the autocratic and laissez-faire leadership style. Meanwhile, Pearson's correlation test shows that only democratic leadership styles has a significant relationship with the school climate. These findings implicates that, according to the religious teachers, principals in religious sharing schools should adopt democratic leadership styles and reduce the use of autocratic and laissez-faire leadership styles in order to create a conducive and positive school climate. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

People see religious schools as an important institution to produce good students and good Islamic experiences. Thus, tahfiz studies become one of the platforms for society to translate the consciousness. The passage of time has made the demand for tahfiz flow study a place besides the mainstream education system. Upon rising demand, a government-led tahfiz institution is unable to cope with the growing demand from the community. As a result it has opened up space for private tahfiz institutions to participate in assisting the government in fulfilling many demands. Thus, the coupling of government and private prospects for the development of the tahfiz field is very broad. Abdul Rahman (et.all) 2012, said that the burden of the tahfiz institutions, especially the private tahfiz institutions, has also affected the effects of unconformity in administration, curriculum, teacher education issues, certificate ratings and so on. A survey on a privately held tahfiz center on some of Tahfiz teachers' education issues, especially knowledge in pedagogy and practice in the teaching process in their managed tahfiz centers. This writing is generally a qualitative combination in which it is classified into library research (library research) and field research, as its data sources are derived from library and field sources through observation and interviews of respondents. This writing will address issues related to pedagogical knowledge of teachers and their practice in the process of teaching and learning at the center of tahfiz that should be given attention to improvements in line with the management's desire to make their central tahfiz able to conform with the mainstream tahfiz center. Although data and information are limited to the center of tahfiz only, other private Tahfiz center operators need to see the contents of the writing positively towards upholding tahfiz education in the face of the challenges of PAK21 (21st Century Learning). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Tahfiz learning is a form of difficult and challenging learning especially in the context of secondary tahfiz education that is offered together with the main stream curriculum, Standard Based Curriculum for Secondary Schools (KSSM). This study was conducted to explore forms of challenges and support needed by tahfiz students at selected government-funded religious schools in Malaysia. A qualitative approach is used to answer the research questions that are based on in-depth exploration on challenges and support needed by tahfiz students. Purposive sampling technique was used to select participants who have attended tahfiz learning at least three years. Individual semi structured in-depth interviews were conducted with participants consisted 11 students. Findings also showed that there are several challenges faced by the students; home environment, difficulty in memorization, gadjets and peer challenges. Further findings showed that support needed by the students are teachers, parents, peers and school's support. This study provides important implications that support is a significant aspect of tahfiz students so that they can handle learning challenges. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study aims to examine and control the People's Religious School students (SMKA) and SABK in Malacca on particular Arabic balaghah knowledge and to identify the problems faced by students in learning this knowledge. A total of 30 students from five out of 504 students were chosen as respondents in the SMKA and SABK in Malacca. There are several problems faced by identified students who may interfere with them to capture this knowledge. Several measures intended to strengthen students' knowledge is also presented in this study. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]