The vibrant demand for academic excellence in the twenty-first century has brought diverse determinants of students' outcome into play. However, few studies have validated the instruments and examined the mediating effect between exogenous and endogenous variables of the student outcome model....

This study investigates the perceptions of high school teachers on the role of school administrators in motivating them. The study used survey method and distributed questionnaires to teachers of ten aided high schools in Malappuram Educational District of Kerala, India, using quota sampling...

The role of curriculum in addressing socio-cultural diversity is highly relevant to our ever-globalizing world. Various priorities made at the social, cultural, political and economic domains encompassing lives of every citizens at personal and collective levels hence has to be well-represented...

In modern times, ‘knowledge' is understood as cognitive, subjective and as an ever evolving concept. In contrast, knowledge in Islam is conceived within a ‘certain' worldview, i.e., Islamic Worldview (IW) set by the authentic sources of Islam; the Holy Qur'an and the authentic collection of...

This study argues that the components of excellent work culture (EWC) since its emergence in the 1980s in the Malaysian public sector were not empirically validated. Therefore, the purpose of this empirical study is to validate instrument and the factor structure of the underlying dimensions of...

The term ‘Islamic education (IE)' does not just refer to ‘Religious Education (RE)' by itself at the expense of intellectual, psycho-social, natural and physical sciences. The term ‘IE' indicate to the process of ‘educating' or nurturing the mind, body and soul, i.e., the psychic,...

The process of education, although essentially involves transmission of a lot of specialized information, inherently it should be rather transformative. The transformation would occur when learners are able make meaning of what they learn, to put them in more specific terms of action and to make...

The main intention of this paper is to provide details on how Islamic Higher Education (IHE) and its curriculum evolved in Kerala. While doing this, the history of various educational organizations, their reform attempts will be dealt briefly, but with the main intention of tracing the evolution...