KRISIS DISIPLIN PENDIDIKAN ISLAM: ANTI PLURALISME

This article discusses the problem of Islamic education from a theological and sociological point of view. The emergence of normative and verbalist Islamic education curriculum distorts the universality of Islam. Islam that is contextual in space and time, always in contact with sociological aspects, should be understood as something that can change its partiality dynamics continuously, even though there is a universal thing that is maintained as a normative belief. On the other hand, the failure of education to produce educational output that is dignified and virtuous has caused some people to distrust the world of education in developing the character and ethics of children. The vote of disbelief is getting stronger with the emergence of the National curriculum model which gives a greater portion of general subjects than religious subjects. This paper is a criticism of the development of the world of education in Indonesia, with the hope that education stakeholders make changes to the education system and the applicable curriculum.

Role of Gender Power Sharing in Human Development and Economic Growth

This study has developed the concept of Gender Power Sharing. The concept has been applied to construct Gender Power Sharing Index (GPSI) for thirty three developing countries of the world. The selection of countries is based upon the availability of the data of indicators used for the construction of GPSI. The index has been constructed by taking into account three different dimensions related with male and female„s relative participation in earning, spending and family size decision. The value of measure falls between 0 and 1, where 1 stands for perfect power sharing among male and female in major household concerns. While 0 shows an absence of sharing among male and female. Countries are ranked according to their standing in gender power sharing. GPSI has been found to be moderately correlated with existing gender indices such as Gender Development Index, Gender Inequality Index and Global Gender Gap. Temporal and spatial comparison of GPSI with other gender Indices show that some countries like Jordan and Egypt have low gender power sharing despite their relatively higher ranking in Gender Development Index. Similarly, some countries like Madagascar and Rwanda have higher Gender Power Sharing despite their low ranking in Gender Development Index. In next step, the role of Gender Power Sharing has been investigated to explain the differences of Economic Growth and Human Development across the selected countries. Our empirical findings indicate that gender power sharing as measured by GPSI has positive and significant effect on Economic Growth and Literacy. Among three different dimensions of gender power sharing the role of expenditure sharing has been found as the most important crucial for Economic Growth and Human Development.