Kelas Bimbingan Muslimah as an Islamic Lifelong Learning Programme in Brunei Darussalam: An Overview

Abstract

His Majesty the Sultan and the Yang Di-Pertuan have proposed to prepare a curriculum with the concept of lifelong learning. His Majesty's proposal is to encourage the people of Brunei to study for all ages. Moreover, His Majesty also summoned to monitor the Islamic studies curriculum in order to achieve a holistic education. Thus, this study focuses on Lifelong Learning specifically for muslimahs in Islamic education in mosques, balai and private homes. All these places play a major role in Islamic education. The main objective of this study is to discover the development of Islamic Lifelong Learning for muslimahs in Brunei Darussalam which has been practiced for a long time, focusing on Islamic learning in mosque institutions. This study describes the development of muslimahs in Islamic Lifelong Learning in terms of infrastructure, administration, management and curriculum. This study used qualitative approach with document analysis and semi-structured interview. Thus, this study found that the Brunei Government has established religious classes in mosques specifically for muslimahs named as Kelas Bimbingan Muslimah in 2007. This class has been developed encouragingly where it dies not only limited to mosque based learning however, the muslimahs are very proactive too in conducting activities physically and religiously.