Inclusive Islam in education: Utilizing Islamic content in teaching English

Abstract

Islam is basic foundation to build moeslem’characters. It can be done through education.Because of that islamic content should be inserted into curriculum for every subject that are taught by teachers. One of the subject that should get attention is English. Since in teaching English, the teacher still use general material that still far away from islamic content and values.  It can be seen from curriculum of English at schools and universities that the topics still less from the messeges of islamic norms and culture.How can the teachers build students’ character without teaching students islamic material that the sources is from holy quran and hadits? It is a big question that should be answered. This paper will discuss about utilizing islamic content in teaching English.The writer offers some way on integrating islamic content in the English teaching.