‘Islamic Culture’ textbook content and religious needs of literacy students

Abstract

The present study aimed to investigate the degree of adaptation of the ‘Islamic Culture’ textbook content to the religious needs of the literacy learners, using document and content analysis as the main research method. The statistical population for the document analysis included all texts related to the religious needs of the literacy learners, and the ‘Islamic Culture’ textbook was examined in the content analysis section. The research tools were composed of some forms and a content analysis checklist. Furthermore, the documents were analysed qualitatively, and the data from the content analysis were examined, using the descriptive indicators in the Shannon entropy for data analysis. The study results revealed that the conceptual framework of the religious needs among the literacy learners could be classified into three dimensions, namely; cognitive, emotional and functional, and then divided into several components. According to the expert opinions, there was no correlation between the ‘Islamic Culture’ textbook content and the dimensions of the religious needs of the literacy learners. The levels of attention to the religious needs in such learners in the ‘Islamic Culture’ textbook content was also not the same, so that the most emphasis had been laid on the cognitive dimension and the least weight was placed on the functional one. Contribution: This study was to identify the dimensions and components of the religious needs of the literacy learners. For this purpose, three dimensions and 58 components were categorised for the religious needs, using document and content analysis as well as data collection tools for searching the related literature in books, journals, databases and websites. Keywords: religious needs; Islamic Culture bo

Keywords

• religious needs
• islamic culture book
• education
• islamic educational environment
• islam
• religion