The Objectives of Study The Significance of Study The Method of Study

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C. The Limitation and Formulation of Study

The aim of Islamic education is to transform human being to excel spiritually, intellectually and socially. Then, Islamic education is not sufficient for Islamic education to be limited with cognitive instructional. Furthermore, Islamic education has to respond to social changes to achieve its goals and its own concept, it has to develop and change. The researcher limits the problems to focus research agenda. First, this research will be limited at the regulations on Islamic education after reform era which is imbalance between regulation and implementation. Second, this research will be limited at the Islamic education in public schools which is only in teaching of the knowledge. Third, this research will be limited on the objectives of Islamic education at the basic or elementary and secondary school which have to clarify for the development of Islamic education. Furthermore, the researcher formulated on , “How is the development of Islamic education in the public schools after reform era study on the objectives of Islamic education in elementary and secondary school? ” Based on this formulation, the researcher makes into two questions for this research, as following: 1. How are the objectives of Islamic education in each level of education at elementary and secondary schools? 2. How is the effort of development of Islamic education in implanting the values of religious moral in public schools?

D. The Objectives of Study

In this research there are some goals, the goals of this research as the following: 1. Understanding the concept of Islamic education and the content of development, even the aim of Islamic education development. 2. Understanding the history of the development of Islamic education after reform era. 8 3. Describing the aim of Islamic education in national education at elementary school and secondary school. 4. Discussing the aim of Islamic education as the challenge to develop Islamic education in school public.

E. The Significance of Study

Beside some goals above, there are some significances of this research, as the following: 1. Getting relevance to this research and discuss a new concept. 2. Offering some ideas to develop Islamic education as benefit at public schools. 3. Building the scientific concept of Islamic education as an effort of constructing moral character whether as individual or nation.

F. The Method of Study

1. Data Source In this research there are two data sources. First, the researcher collect primary data, namely from regulations and policies which related to the aim of Islamic education in public schools. Especially, the act number 202003 on national education system. The second is the data from secondary source. The data include books and articles such as journals, magazines the other documents related to theme of the research. 2. Technique Analysis the Data The first, choosing the data from reference whether in primary and secondary sources. The second, collecting the data which relates to problem of study. The third, organizing the data and the last interpreting the data. 9 3. Data Analysis According to Sofyan Effendi and Masri Singgarimbun, data analysis is “a process of simplification in the form of words into a more easily read and interpreted ”. 11 This research uses “library research”. The library research Approach is a process of researching and analyzing documents such as books and articles and others, which related to the problem of research. It means this research only takes data from written sources. 12 In accordance with the data, researcher only looks up from regulations, policies and documents. Then the data are collected, organized, analyzed and the last describe the result of research finding. 11 Saiful Annur, Metode Penelitian Pendidikan, Analisis Data Kualitatif dan Kuantitatif, Palembang: IAIN Raden Fattah Press, 2005, Cet I, p. 104. 12 Mestika Zed, Metode Penelitian Kepustakaan, Jakarta: Yayasan Obor Indonesia, 2008, Cet. 1, p. 1. 10

CHAPTER II THE AIM OF ISLAMIC EDUCATION