About the Journal

TARBAWI: Journal of Education in Muslim Society publishes scholarly works in the field of Islamic education and related studies in Muslim society. The journal welcomes conceptual papers, empirical research, literature reviews, case studies, classroom action research, research and development (R&D), and mixed-methods studies written in English or Indonesian.

The journal focuses on the development of knowledge, theory, and practice in Islamic education, especially in relation to contemporary educational challenges, innovation, and the transformation of learning in Muslim communities.

1) Islamic Religious Education

Studies on concepts, theories, practices, and contemporary issues in Islamic Religious Education in formal, non-formal, and informal educational settings.

  • Philosophy and foundations of Islamic education

  • Curriculum and learning design in Islamic Religious Education

  • Learning strategies and methods in Islamic Religious Education

  • Character education and moral development

  • Values internalization in Islamic education

  • Evaluation and assessment in Islamic Religious Education

  • Islamic Religious Education in schools, madrasahs, pesantren, and higher education

Keywords: Islamic Religious Education, Islamic learning, curriculum, character education, values education

2) Media and Technology in Islamic Education

Research on instructional media, digital innovation, and educational technology to support teaching and learning in Islamic education.

  • Learning media for Islamic Religious Education

  • Digital media and interactive learning resources

  • E-learning, blended learning, and online learning in Islamic education

  • Multimedia-based Islamic learning

  • Educational technology integration in Islamic classrooms

  • Development of mobile learning, augmented reality, virtual reality, and hologram-based learning

  • Digital literacy in Islamic education

Keywords: learning media, Islamic educational technology, e-learning, digital media, interactive learning

3) Learning Innovation in Muslim Society

Studies on innovation in pedagogy, classroom practice, and educational transformation in Muslim communities.

  • Innovative teaching models in Islamic education

  • Student-centered learning in Islamic Religious Education

  • Discovery learning, problem-based learning, and project-based learning

  • Creative and inclusive pedagogical practices

  • Differentiated instruction in Islamic learning

  • Motivation, engagement, and learning outcomes in Islamic education

  • Contemporary challenges in Muslim educational institutions

Keywords: learning innovation, pedagogy, student engagement, instructional model, Muslim society

4) Islamic Education and Character Building

Research addressing the role of Islamic education in shaping students’ character, ethics, spirituality, and social behavior.

  • Religious character education

  • Moral and ethical development

  • Spiritual intelligence in education

  • Islamic education and social responsibility

  • Discipline, honesty, tolerance, and respect in school culture

  • Prevention of moral crisis through Islamic education

  • Islamic education and citizenship values

Keywords: character education, moral values, spirituality, ethics, student development

5) Curriculum, Evaluation, and Educational Management

Studies on curriculum development, educational policy, assessment, and management of Islamic educational institutions.

  • Curriculum development in Islamic education

  • Independent curriculum and Islamic Religious Education

  • Assessment and evaluation of learning outcomes

  • Quality assurance in Islamic education

  • Management and leadership in Islamic schools and madrasahs

  • Educational supervision and teacher professionalism

  • Policy studies in Islamic education

Keywords: curriculum, assessment, educational management, quality assurance, Islamic schools

6) Teacher Professional Development in Islamic Education

Research focusing on the competence, professionalism, and career development of teachers and educators in Islamic educational settings.

  • Pedagogical competence of Islamic education teachers

  • Professional competence and classroom performance

  • Teacher identity and reflective practice

  • Teacher training and continuous professional development

  • Instructional planning and classroom management

  • Teacher creativity and innovation in Islamic learning

  • Challenges of Islamic education teachers in the digital era

Keywords: teacher professionalism, pedagogical competence, professional development, Islamic education teacher

7) Islamic Education, Society, and Culture

Studies that connect Islamic education with social, cultural, and community dynamics in Muslim society.

  • Islamic education in multicultural society

  • Inclusive Islamic education

  • Family and community roles in Islamic education

  • Socio-cultural dimensions of Muslim education

  • Local wisdom and Islamic educational values

  • Islamic education and social transformation

  • Comparative studies of Islamic education in different communities or countries

Keywords: Muslim society, inclusive education, multicultural education, social transformation, local wisdom

8) Guidance, Counseling, and Student Development in Islamic Education

Research on counseling, mentoring, and student development from Islamic educational perspectives.

  • Islamic guidance and counseling

  • Student well-being and personal development

  • Academic procrastination, discipline, and learning behavior

  • Counseling approaches in Islamic schools

  • Emotional and social development of students

  • Prevention of deviant behavior through religious education

  • Counseling and mental resilience in Muslim learners

Keywords: Islamic counseling, student development, learning behavior, well-being, guidance

9) Research and Development in Islamic Learning

Studies emphasizing the design, development, validation, and implementation of educational products in Islamic education.

  • Development of teaching materials for Islamic Religious Education

  • Development of modules, worksheets, and textbooks

  • Learning media design and validation

  • Development of digital platforms and applications for Islamic learning

  • Product effectiveness testing in classroom practice

  • Innovation-based educational research in Islamic teaching

Keywords: research and development, teaching materials, module development, media validation, instructional product

General Limitations

Submissions must demonstrate a clear connection to Islamic education, learning innovation, educational media, teacher development, or educational issues in Muslim society. Manuscripts that are purely theological, purely doctrinal, or general religious discussions without clear educational relevance fall outside the journal’s scope.

Open Access Policy

 

This journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge.

Publication Ethics

Tarbawi: Jurnal Pendidikan Agama Islam, with registered number ISSN 2527-4082 (Print), ISSN 2622-920X (Online) is a peer-reviewed journal, available in print and online and published twice a year. This statement clarifies the ethical behavior of all parties involved in the act of publishing articles in this journal, including the writer, editor in chief, Editorial Board, peer-reviewer and publisher of Islamic Education Study Program, Faculty of Islamic Studies, University of Muhammadiyah Makassar.

 Ethics Guidelines for Journal Publication

The Publication of an article in peer-reviewed Tarbawi: Jurnal Pendidikan Agama Islam. Tarbawi: Jurnal Pendidikan Agama Islam is a media of scientific publications that focus on disseminating the results of research in the fields of Teacher Training and Islamic Education. Peer-reviewed articles support and embody the scientific method. It is therefore important to agree upon standards of expected ethical behaviour for all parties involved in the act of publishing: the author, the journal editor, the peer reviewer, the publisher and the society.

Publication decisions

The editor of the Tarbawi: Jurnal Pendidikan Agama Islam is responsible for deciding which of the articles submitted to the journal should be published. The validation of the work in question and its importance to researchers and readers must always drive such decisions. The editors may be guided by the policies of the journal's editorial board and constrained by such legal requirements as shall then be in force regarding libel, copyright infringement and plagiarism. The editors may confer with other editors or reviewers in making this decision.


Fair play

An editor at any time evaluate manuscripts for their intellectual content without regard to race, gender, sexual orientation, religious belief, ethnic origin, citizenship, or political philosophy of the authors.

Confidentiality

The editor and any editorial staff must not disclose any information about a submitted manuscript to anyone other than the corresponding author, reviewers, potential reviewers, other editorial advisers, and the publisher, as appropriate.

Disclosure and conflicts of interest

Unpublished materials disclosed in a submitted manuscript must not be used in an editor's own research without the express written consent of the author.

Duties of Reviewers

Contribution to Editorial Decisions

Peer review assists the editor in making editorial decisions and through the editorial communications with the author may also assist the author in improving the paper.

Promptness

Any selected referee who feels unqualified to review the research reported in a manuscript or knows that its prompt review will be impossible should notify the editor and excuse himself from the review process.

Confidentiality

Any manuscripts received for review must be treated as confidential documents. They must not be shown to or discussed with others except as authorized by the editor.

Standards of Objectivity

Reviews should be conducted objectively. Personal criticism of the author is inappropriate. Referees should express their views clearly with supporting arguments.

Acknowledgement of Sources

Reviewers should identify relevant published work that has not been cited by the authors. Any statement that an observation, derivation, or argument had been previously reported should be accompanied by the relevant citation. A reviewer should also call to the editor's attention any substantial similarity or overlap between the manuscript under consideration and any other published paper of which they have personal knowledge.

Disclosure and Conflict of Interest

Privileged information or ideas obtained through peer review must be kept confidential and not used for personal advantage. Reviewers should not consider manuscripts in which they have conflicts of interest resulting from competitive, collaborative, or other relationships or connections with any of the authors, companies, or institutions connected to the papers.

Duties of Authors

Reporting standards

Authors of reports of original research should present an accurate account of the work performed as well as an objective discussion of its significance. Underlying data should be represented accurately in the paper. A paper should contain sufficient detail and references to permit others to replicate the work. Fraudulent or knowingly inaccurate statements constitute unethical behaviour and are unacceptable.

Originality and Plagiarism

The authors should ensure that they have written entirely original works, and if the authors have used the work and/or words of others that this has been appropriately cited or quoted.

Multiple, Redundant or Concurrent Publication

An author should not in general publish manuscripts describing essentially the same research in more than one journal or primary publication. Submitting the same manuscript to more than one journal concurrently constitutes unethical publishing behaviour and is unacceptable.

Acknowledgment of Sources

Proper acknowledgment of the work of others must always be given. Authors should cite publications that have been influential in determining the nature of the reported work.

Authorship of the Paper

Authorship should be limited to those who have made a significant contribution to the conception, design, execution, or interpretation of the reported study. All those who have made significant contributions should be listed as co-authors. Where there are others who have participated in certain substantive aspects of the research project, they should be acknowledged or listed as contributors. The corresponding author should ensure that all appropriate co-authors and no inappropriate co-authors are included on the paper, and that all co-authors have seen and approved the final version of the paper and have agreed to its submission for publication.

Disclosure and Conflicts of Interest

All authors should disclose in their manuscript any financial or other substantive conflict of interest that might be construed to influence the results or interpretation of their manuscript. All sources of financial support for the project should be disclosed.

Fundamental errors in published works

When an author discovers a significant error or inaccuracy in his/her own published work, it is the author’s obligation to promptly notify the journal editor or publisher and cooperate with the editor to retract or correct the paper.

Screening for Plagiarism

Naskah yang diserahkan ke jurnal Tarbawi: Jurnal Pendidikan Agama Islam akan diperiksa menggunakan turnitin minimal 25 %

Peer Review Process

All manuscripts submitted to TARBAWI: Jurnal Pendidikan Agama Islam are first evaluated by the editorial team to determine whether they are suitable for further review. At this initial stage, the editors assess the manuscript based on several criteria, including the suitability of the topic with the journal’s focus and scope, originality and academic contribution, compliance with the author guidelines, clarity of writing, and the result of similarity screening using plagiarism detection software.

Manuscripts that pass the initial editorial screening will proceed to the peer review stage. TARBAWI implements a double-blind peer review process, in which the identities of both authors and reviewers are concealed to ensure an objective, fair, and unbiased evaluation.

Each eligible manuscript is reviewed by at least two independent reviewers who have expertise in the relevant field. Reviewers are selected based on their academic qualifications, research experience, relevance of expertise, and absence of any conflict of interest.

The reviewers are asked to evaluate the manuscript based on its originality, significance, methodological soundness, theoretical contribution, relevance to the field of education in Muslim society, clarity of analysis, and overall quality of presentation. Based on their review, the reviewers may recommend one of the following decisions: accept submission, accept with minor revisions, reconsider after major revisions, or reject submission.

The handling editor and/or Editor-in-Chief carefully consider all reviewer comments before making the final editorial decision. If the recommendations of the reviewers differ significantly, the editor may assign the manuscript to an additional reviewer to obtain another expert opinion.

The editorial decision is then communicated to the corresponding author along with the anonymous review comments. Authors whose manuscripts require revision are expected to revise and resubmit their manuscripts in accordance with the reviewers’ and editors’ suggestions within the specified period.

For manuscripts requiring major revisions, the revised version may be sent back to the same reviewers for further evaluation. For manuscripts requiring only minor revisions, the handling editor may evaluate the revised manuscript without sending it again to the reviewers.

A manuscript will only be accepted for publication once the editors are satisfied that all important comments and recommendations have been properly addressed. Accepted manuscripts will proceed to the copyediting, proofreading, and layout editing stages before publication.

All articles published in TARBAWI are available online as open access and can be freely accessed and downloaded by readers.

Article Processing Charges (APC)

This journal applies the following author fees:

Article Submission: IDR 0
Authors are not required to pay any submission fee as part of the submission process.

Article Publication Charge (APC): IDR 700,000
If the submitted manuscript is accepted for publication, the author(s) will be required to pay an Article Publication Charge (APC) to cover publication costs.

The publication fee does not influence the editorial decision on whether a manuscript is accepted or rejected. Editorial decisions are made solely based on the quality, originality, relevance, and scholarly merit of the manuscript.

If a manuscript is accepted for publication, the author(s) will receive a Letter of Acceptance (LoA) containing complete information regarding the payment procedure.

Journal History

TARBAWI (p-ISSN: 2527-4082; e-ISSN: 2622-920X) is a peer-reviewed scientific journal dedicated to publishing and disseminating high-quality research in the fields of teacher education and Islamic Religious Education. The journal serves as an academic platform for scholars, researchers, educators, and practitioners to contribute to the advancement of knowledge and practice in Islamic education.

The journal is published by the Islamic Religious Education Study Program, Faculty of Islamic Studies, Universitas Muhammadiyah Makassar, in collaboration with LP3M Unismuh Makassar. TARBAWI is issued biannually, with publication scheduled in May and November each year.

TARBAWI welcomes original research articles, conceptual papers, and scholarly studies that address contemporary issues, innovations, and developments in the field of Islamic Religious Education and related educational disciplines. The journal particularly encourages contributions that provide theoretical insight, empirical findings, and practical implications for the improvement of education in Muslim society.

The Editorial Team invites academics, researchers, professionals, and education practitioners from relevant disciplines to submit their best and most recent works for publication in TARBAWI.