چکیده:
Upon the continuing spread of English as the global language, there have been dissenting voices, albeit not resounding ones, from Muslim scholars lamenting the hegemony of Western patterns of thoughts and the relegation or denigration of Islamic ideology, values, and culture in education in general and English Language Teaching (ELT) curricular and pedagogic thinking in particular. Nonetheless, despite the current qualms, the practice of reviving language teachings based on Islamic sources and the socio-religious concerns of Muslim communities is still infrequent.Feeling the necessity of designing educational materials, I narrate an experience of composing nursery rhymes targeted at introducing body organs and their divine rights to young English learners through deriving inspiration from Islamic references like the Sublime Qur’an and Imam Sajjad’s Treaties on Rights (Risalat al-Huquq). I hope the modest experience would be inspirational for other language teachers and materials developers interested in carving out identity and ownership in foreign language teaching.
خلاصه ماشینی:
Feeling the necessity of designing educational materials, I narrate an experience of composing nursery rhymes targeted at introducing body organs and their divine rights to young English learners through deriving inspiration from Islamic references like the Sublime Qur’an and Imam Sajjad’s Trea- ties on Rights (Risalat al-Huquq).
The case in view is designing materials (nursery rhymes) targeted at teach- ing body organs to young English learners through deriving inspiration from Islamic references like the Sublime Qur’an, exegeses, and more particularly Imam Sajjad’s Treaties on Rights (Risalat al-Huquq).
Examples are I Can Series (set of five books) by Ghani and Ibrahim (2005) introducing and illustrating some basic Islamic concepts and manners to young Muslim children and answering chil- dren queries about Islam as faith like making du’a, reading the Qur’an, or pray- ing to Allah; The Golden Domes and Silver Lanterns: A Muslim Book of Colors by Khan (2012) teaching English colors via elements of Islamic culture like “Golden dome of the mosque” or “brown date in Ramadan”; The Best Eid Ever by Mobin-Uddin (2007) narrating the story of a Muslim family celebrating an Eid related to Hajj pilgrimage; Under the Ramadan Moon by Whitman (2011) introducing the month of Ramadan to young readers and the particular rituals performed by Muslims during this month; and Secrets of the Turtle by Ghahremani Ghajar (2009) in which a turtle is depicted travelling to different places like the holy city of Mecca and sharing its own stories with other people (just to mention a few).