An Assessment Of Traditional Islamic Education Practices And Their Implications To Modern Education(the Case Of Hamida Hadith School In Sinana Woreda Bale Zone Southeast Ethiopia)
In Ethiopia tra ditional Is lamic education system have held for long andrnstill continue to hold a significant place in the literacy development of therncountry. The study was primarily intended to examine some of therneducational practices of traditional Islamic education in the rural area ofrnBale zone from the points of view of its implication fo r modern edu cation.rnThe findings of the study were based on an ethnographic case s tudy ofrntraditional Hadith School found in small village of Bale zone calledrnHamida. In the course of the study, information was collected from thernSheikh (teacher) and darasas (students) of the aforementioned samplernschool. Beside to the school members, former students and communityrnmember were included through purposeful (snowball) sampling. Thernnecessary Information was gath ered using open ended interview, focusrngroup discu ssion and observation .rnThe findings of the study revealed that in the school, education wasrnoffered in a pedagogical design and approach that has fundamentalrnsimila rities to educational practices employed in contemporary ' modernrnsecular education.